💡📖New to the blog! Read about the latest research from Libby Maman, with coauthors Libby Maman, @jacintjc.bsky.social, David Levi Faur, Edoardo Guaschino, Rahel Schomaker and Esther Van-Zimmeren! policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/09/17/m...

Our 2025 🎉 Top 10 Most Cited Articles 🎉 are now free to access until the end of September! You can find them all below 👇 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/PP-H... Many thanks to all of our authors:

Looking for some reading to kick off the new semester? Our autumn reading list includes free articles on 🧠 Emotions in public policy ⛅ Politics of environmental policy 🤝 Governance networks bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/PP-R... #APSA2025 #PoliSky

❓How do policy and design intersect❓ New to the blog!⤵️ policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/09/10/h...

Congratulations to @andreamigone.bsky.social & @howlettm.bsky.social on authoring one of our top 10 most cited articles of 2025! Check it out 👇 doi.org/10.1332/0305...

📚⚡We're back after summer break! Read our latest blog post by @howlettm.bsky.social and @andreamigone.bsky.social policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/09/03/a...

Thanks to everyone who has already read and engaged with mine and @haylesben.bsky.social new paper ‘Lived experience as evidence in anti-poverty policy making: a governance-driven perspective’ Thought I'd give a summary of the paper here, I've found it useful when others have done this, so here goes

👋 Heading to @ecpr.bsky.social Check out our reading list of essential policy and politics readings - These fantastic articles are all open access until Oct 31. @ecprpublicpolicy.bsky.social policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/07/02/u...

Looking forward to reading this!

How democratic are regulatory agencies really? New research by Libby Maman, @jacintjc.bsky.socialky.social‬, David Levi-Faur, Edoardo Guaschino, Rahel Schomaker, and Esther Van-Zimmeren tackles this question with a measurement tool for regulatory democracy. doi.org/10.1332/03055736Y2025D000000074

📣 Article alert! Excellent new piece on *lived experience* as a form of evidence from our very own @clemmiehilloconnor.bsky.social & a colleague @haylesben.bsky.social 👏 #OpenAccess in Policy & Politics now 👉 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Our new highlights collection is out! This time we're featuring research on on #CollaborativeGovernance 🤝 Access our highlights 🌟for free🌟https://policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/07/31/policy-politics-highlights-collection-on-collaborative-governance-free-to-access-from-31-july-31-october-2025

Issue 3 is live! We want to thank all of our authors for their contributions. This collection includes articles spanning from the collection action framework, policy feedback, governance, crises and more. Check it out! bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

⚡️Between win–win and the manufacturing of consent: collaborative governance in cannabis policy Read more on our blog!: policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/07/23/b... @philipptrein.bsky.social

Intended and unintended effects of #cannabis regulation in Uruguay doi.org/10.1332/0305...

⚡New to the blog! 'How do populist discourses influence policy termination?' policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/07/16/h...

Curious about different relationships between design and policy? Liz [email protected], Lucy Kimbell, & Ramia Mazé set out an original typology which differentiates roles of design in policy along the lines of their ultimate purpose... doi.org/10.1332/0305...

3 ways policy and design intersect bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Thanks to all of you who use my work 🥰 if you are interested in the outline of the main concepts and questions around #interpretive policy research read here 👇🏼 @bupjournals.bsky.social @policy-politics.bsky.social @ifswien.bsky.social

🌟New to the blog🌟 'A systematic review of conflict within collaborative governance' by Jacob Torfing, Reza Payandeh, Seyed Mostafa Jalili, and Masoud Banafi! policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/07/09/a...

🥳We’re celebrating our most cited authors of 2024 with a free collection of their articles. Read the highly cited collection until the end of July bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/subject/PP-H... See the thread below for our top 5 most cited 🧵👇 #polisky #PublicPolicy

Thanks so much for including our piece, "Emotions and anti-carceral advocacy in Canada: ‘All of the anger this creates in our bodies is also a tool to kill us’" on your student reading list!

@johannahornung.bsky.social @nilsbandelow.bsky.social @morsini.bsky.social @yesolakweon.bsky.social @johnskuk.bsky.social @thomasbolognesi.bsky.social @jamessloam.bsky.social @philipptrein.bsky.social

Need help curating your course materials? Want to brush up on the freshest research before term starts? The Policy & Politics student reading list is here! 🎓🌟 Access the full list for free until 31 October policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/07/02/u... #poliSky #publicPolicy #poliSci

@katharinatpaul.bsky.social's new blog post is now live!⚡ 'Towards a new policy analytical methodology in the study of vaccination governance' Thank you Katharina! policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/06/25/t...

Our citation metrics are in! ⭐CiteScore: 7.8 - top 5% for Sociology and Political Science ⭐Impact Factor: 3.1 – Q1 for PoliSci and #PublicAdmin ⭐Journal Citation Indicator: 1.79 – Q1 in PoliSci and #PublicAdmin Thank you to all of our Authors, Editors, Reviewers & Readers #JCR2025

⚡Using bricolage and robustness theory to explain the dynamism of collaborative governance - live now on the Policy & Politics blog! Thank you Martin and Eva✨ policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/06/18/u...

New on 🌤️Early View 🌤️: Between win–win and the manufacturing of consent: collaborative governance as a lightning rod in cannabis policy. By: Christopher K. Ansell, Kevin Orr, and @philipptrein.bsky.social doi.org/10.1332/0305...

Want to know about the effect of political short-termism on the Prison Service in England and Wales? New to the blog!⚡️ @samwarner.bsky.social @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social @profdaverichards.bsky.social policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/06/12/t...

💡New to the blog! Policy windows and criminal justice reforms by Georg Wenzelburger policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/06/04/p...

🌤️ Early View @ Policy & Politics 🌤️ Check out Vandna Bhatia’s latest article in Policy & Politics: "How do populist discourses influence policy termination?" Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1332/03055736Y2025D000000071

✨New to the blog: COVID-19 and the healthcare workforce shortage Read now⬇️ policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/05/28/h...

❓Does HIV stigma shape views on who deserves welfare? New to the blog!: policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/05/19/d...

🌅 Early View 🌅 "What is successful policy experimentation?" by @katemattocks.bsky.social is now available in Policy & Politics! Curious about how governments can better design and learn from policy experiments? This article offers a new framework: doi.org/10.1332/0305...

A short summary of our article on feminist democratic innovations in policy and politics with @pcaravantes.bsky.social For the full article see bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

This quarter’s collection features cutting-edge research on gender-based violence, EU gender pay policy, and feminist democratic innovations. 👇 Open Acces until June 30! policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/05/01/p...

🌄 Early View 🌄 "A critical political analysis of wellbeing support for postgraduate researchers in higher education" by John Turnpenny on Early View in Policy & Politics! Interested in the politics behind wellbeing initiatives in universities? 🔽 doi.org/10.1332/0305...

Thanks for this interesting piece @katemattocks.bsky.social ⚡

💡What is successful policy experimentation? Read our new Policy & Politics blog post here! 📝 policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/04/23/w...

✨New to our Policy & Politics blog! ‘Policy Goals versus Service Delivery in the Welfare State: Bridging the Gap’ Read now!⬇️ Thank you Janna Goijaerts, @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social, and Jet Bussemaker policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/04/09/p...

🥳Volume 53, Issue 2, is here! We have a fantastic collection of articles, many thanks to all of our authors and reviewers for their contributions.

🌤️Early View 🌤️ Carla Cordoncillo Acosta & Mireia Borrell examine how different types of collaboration impact policy innovation. Not all partners contribute equally, some bring more capacity to innovate. 🔗 doi.org/10.1332/0305...

Congratulations to @DrLeah_McCabe for winning the Bleddyn Davies Early Career Prize! Read Leah’s winning paper ‘An intersectional analysis of contestations within women’s movements: the case of Scottish domestic abuse policymaking’ with OA doi.org/10.1332/0305... @edinburghpir.bsky.social

In their book, In Covid's Wake, Macedo & Lee are critical of governments for "following the science" but ignored dissenting views among scientists. This assumes that governments were, in fact, just following the science. Our research suggests not: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

🔎Which criteria guide constructions of 'deservingness' in public policy? We discuss in our new blog post: policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/03/26/w... 🌟Thank you to Johannah Kuhlmann and Sonja Blum @sonjablum.bsky.social for this interesting piece! 🌟

We’re delighted to announce the winners of our Ken Young Best Article prize are Claire Dupont, Jeffrey Rosamond & @bishoyzaki.bsky.social for their paper Investigating the scientific knowledge–policy interface in EU #ClimatePolicy doi.org/10.1332/0305...

✨New post on the Policy & Politics blog!✨ We've announced the 2024 winners of the Early Career and Best Paper Prizes! Congratulations to the successful authors!🎉 policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/03/19/p...

🌤️ New on Early View How do middle managers perceive and articulate the gap between service delivery goals and practice? A new study by Janna Goijaerts, @nataschavanderzwan.bsky.social , & Jet Bussemaker explores this question through a vignette study. 🔗 doi.org/10.1332/03055736Y2025D000000066 🧵⬇️

Article Highlight in Policy and Politics: "Identifying and Explaining Policy Preferences in Swiss Water Management" by @thomasbolognesi.bsky.social, Eva Lieberherr & Manuel Fischer 👉 How do policy preferences form in Swiss water governance? 🔗 doi.org/10.1332/0305...

🌟New on the Policy & Politics blog 🌟 The relationship between national identity and the United Nations General Assembly voting patterns: a Narrative Policy Framework analysis by @yaelrkaplan.bsky.social, @melmerry.bsky.social & Michael D. Jones policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/03/12/t...