How can conceptions of the #merit principle support or hinder workplace #diversity ❓ Sue Williamson & colleagues present a new typology to aid understanding of how the implementation of the merit principle is shaped 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

What happens after policies end? By dismantling or terminating policies, governments reshape lives, bureaucracies, policy subsystems, and political behavior. In our new article in @policysociety.bsky.social, Johabed Olvera and I examine the effects of termination and dismantling

How do people experience #PolicyTermination and #dismantling❓ How are other policies affected❓ @gmocejudo.bsky.social & Johabed Olvera argue that understanding these effects is just as important as comprehending the policy termination process itself👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

How can #SocialMedia be utilised for effective #communication and #coordination during #disasters ❓ Ratna B. Dougherty investigates how the interorganisational coordination of disaster response across the social media platform during #HurricaneIrma 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

Congratulations to Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée👏🎊 @cmi.no has awarded him their prize for outstanding #development research The article shows that a sub-class of highly institutionalized partnerships has developed into transnational bureaucracies 👇 www.globe.uio.no/english/news...

How to successfully engage with and #empower #communities in #DisasterManagement ❓ Marco De Sisto, Clifford Shearing & colleagues ask and examine what needs to be done to build a #collaborative #PolycentricGovernance system 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

How have governments found a tool for reclaiming authority in the #Nationalization of #ElectricitySystems #Operators ❓ Jose M. Valenzuela studies the evolution of electricity markets as a process of constant re-making of regulatory relations 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

#PolicyTermination revisited ❓ The forthcoming Special Issue on #PolicyTermination, co-guest edited by Vandna Bhatia, Carsten Daugbjerg & Frank Ohemeng, shows that policy termination can be a particular type of #PolicyChange 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

📢Vol 8⃣5⃣ (1⃣) is out ❗️ The March 2026 Issue hosts 9⃣ research articles & 1⃣ practice and policy article Topics covered include regulation and supervision of digital mental healthcare & local innovation scaling-up, among many others👇 See our newsletter👇 mailchi.mp/3481ce2a2c00...

How do external and internal dynamics influence an organisation’s intermediation activities ❓ Ciara Kelly & colleagues investigate how the effectiveness & sustainability of NGOs as climate intermediaries are shaped by external policymaking structures 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

What #capacities & mechanisms are required to sustain #IntersectoralCollaboration over the longer term for more #equitable #health outcomes ❓ Helen Dickinson & colleagues explore disability & health collaborative governance arrangements during #COVID-19 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

#BehavioralPublicPolicy (#BPP) is thriving ❗️ 🧐 Yet BPP is also plagued by conceptual confusion Avishalom Tor proposes, explains, and defends a more precise and useful definition of this widely used subcategory of behaviorally informed policies 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

How do post-#NPM approaches redefine the conceptual and practical foundations of #PersonnelManagement ❓ Adnan Karatas argues: post-NPM personnel management must be understood as a deeper transformation in the psychological, social & institutional logics 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

Are policies terminated because of capacity loss or policy subsystem support loss ❓ Erik Baekkeskov & Olivier Rubin use the case of #AMR #NAPs & argue that #PolicyTermination can be relatively pervasive when policy lacks #roots in domestic politics 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Got a big idea that challenges policy thinking ❓ 🧠 ⚡️ @policysociety.bsky.social is inviting proposals for individual articles and special issues that critically examine established frameworks, develop new conceptual tools, or open promising lines of inquiry 👇 academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

Whether or why does use of gaming provide better outcomes for citizens ❓ David Threlfall & Catherine Althaus take stock of efforts that integrate #games and knowledge from games into #Australian public sector practice 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

We tend to struggle with how to conceptualise, map, and respond to #complex issues, being dominated by #RationalTechnical frameworks Jade Hart, Vindhya Weeratunga, @hdicko.bsky.social & Deborah Blackman demonstrate why #NDIS has become ‘stuck’ 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

A well-managed public sector is crucial for achieving national development goals Yandri Susanto & colleagues find that transformational leadership, supportive organisational culture & stakeholder engagement contribute to public organisation performance 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

How and why do #crises reconfigure #PoliticoAdministrative relations in #LocalGovernments❓ Nicolai De Wulf & @joris-voets.bsky.social study how decision-makers retain #discretion, particularly in designing #CrisisManagement configurations👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

In a traditional #Weberian-style #bureaucracy, how do #InformalNetworks operate in relation to the formal system ❓ Oke Hendra, Eko Prasojo & Reza Fathurrahman argue that the relationship between the formal & informal is #CompensatoryInformality 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

How do governments frame and govern crises ❓ Catarina Ianni Segatto & Fernanda Lima-Silva analyze #flood crises in #Brazil, and study how governments change their #definition of crises and their approach to governing during crises 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

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What are the moderating effects of laissez-faire leadership and red tape on the meaningful work–job satisfaction❓ Abid Hussain & Esme Franken explore how organisational constraints, such as #RedTape, may influence #JobSatisfaction 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

The most downloaded 5️⃣ @ausjpa.bsky.social articles published in 2025❓ The list includes: Policy success & failure in Australia Policy shifts and drifts Internal governance in public organisations Foundations for a human(e) government In memoriam: Gemma Carey onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1467...

🗯️ #COVID19 had devastating effects on the economy and society 🖊️Eugenio Borgognoni & colleagues examine the governance of the COVID-19-related economic crisis at the #EU level & its reflection at the national level 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

How do some crises unleash sweeping, paradigm-shifting reforms while others leave entrenched policies and institutions largely unscathed ❓ Tolga Bolukbasi unpacks a cascade of crisis-framing mechanisms into its interlocking cogs and wheels 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

How do #BlameAvoidance & #CreditClaiming attempts affect the way officeholders govern a #crisis & adjust their policies ❓ Céline Honegger & colleagues focus on governments’ aim to avoid blame and claim credit & crisis governance types and policy change 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

The definition of a #crisis is not determined solely by objective conditions❓ Stefania Profeti & Federico Toth propose a response-oriented classification of crises, with an eye to political and strategic considerations behind them 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

🧐 #Crisis scholarship shows extensive conceptual #fragmentation, inconsistent #terminology, and multiple research methods ✍️ @gcapano.bsky.social, @laura-mas.bsky.social & Stefania Profeti provide a #SystematicAnalysis of the literature on crisis and policy change 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Just OUT in @policysociety.bsky.social: @gcapano.bsky.social, Stefania Profeti and my article presenting a systematic literature review of the relationship between crisis and policy change. academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

#PSA26 is approaching! @psaexecpolitics.bsky.social is pleased to organise two panels on 30 March We look forward to our exchange and seeing you all at #PSA26 in #Oxford www.psa.ac.uk/wp-content/u... 👇

What constitutes an #IdealType #MicroLevel #learning process during a #crisis ❓ What challenges might undermine this ideal ❓ Neil Mortimer & @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social study the micro-flow of crisis policy learning & policy processes during a protracted crisis 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

📬 One option for #PolicyReform is to #terminate or end a policy, program, or project. However, there are other similar but different outcomes 🖊️ @andreamigone.bsky.social, Alexander Howlett & @howlettm.bsky.social study #DefensePolicy and #military spending in #Canada 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

📣 #CallforPapers The special issue seeks to address the gap by advancing both theoretical understandings and practical application of #Abductive methods in #PolicyAnalysis Deadline❓ May 1, 2026 👇

A 🆕 year & the 1⃣ st Issue of 2⃣ 0⃣ 2⃣ 6⃣ Co-guest edited by @gcapano.bsky.social, Philippe Zittoun & Stefania Profeti, the Special Issue analyses the politics of governing #crises The contributions examine crisis governance across continents and policy sectors👇 academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

🚨 LAUNCHING 🚨 State of Power 2026 🚨 Fascism and the far right are on the rise. Beyond headlines, we examine the reasons for their rise, the economic interests that support them, how they weaponise today’s social and ecological crises, and proposals for how to fight back. www.tni.org/en/publicati...

You could make the same argument for Labour in the UK. Too much electoral strategy, not enough political vision and leadership.

👀 How “ #GenderTransformative ” gets interpreted is not merely an issue of vocabulary Maria Klara Kuss & Tara Patricia Cookson fill a gap in the scholarly & grey social policy literature with an analysis of the term “gender-transformative” 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

👀 We need a more nuanced view of #PolicyTermination to address different types of policies, including morality policies 📬 Seonmee Lim, Nara Park & Ian Roberge study the policy life cycle of #SouthKorea’s #ShutdownAct👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

#PolicyTermination in developing countries has yet to be examined Frank L.K. Ohemeng & Joseph Antwi-Boasiako argue that policy termination in developing countries is driven by external forces, especially the #InternationalFinancialInstitutions 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Does sustained #NegativeFeedback undermine policy instruments & result in their #termination❓ Carsten Daugbjerg & Giulia Bazzan identify two interrelated feedback conditions for #PolicyDiscontinuation 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Could we frame a #crisis as a political trial of #delegitimization❓ Philippe Zittoun, Patrick Hassenteufel & Frédéric Lebaron point to the #dialectical tension between a phenomenon that appears unexpected and incomprehensible to policymakers 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Whether and how can #SoftLaw & #QuasiRegulation undermine and enhance public value, depending on their design, application, and oversight ❓ Michael McGuinness & colleagues examine ‘regulatory dark matter’ in the Australian regulatory environment doi.org/10.1111/1467... 👇

A 🆕 year & considering where to submit your themed issues and symposia proposals or individual papers❓ 🔍 @policysociety.bsky.social welcomes individual papers & proposals for themed issues and symposia 🤔 For more information, kindly visit our website 👇 academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

And authoritarian leaders can instrumentalize the banking sector in different ways, also see our study with @piroskadora.bsky.social and @mkeremcoban.bsky.social:

My co-author @mkeremcoban.bsky.social and I have written about how this unfolded in the case of Turkey--here is a link to our paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Join us for Jawied Nawabi on how state power and early battles with landed elites shape long-term development. Chaired by @carlosoya.bsky.social 📅27 Jan, 18:00 GMT 📍SWLT & Zoom 🔗Register: shorturl.at/eGDjm @naomihossain.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @devcomms.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social

Highlights from 8⃣4⃣ (4⃣) #SpecialIssue on #StreetLevel #Organisations & #Bureaucrats (co-guest edited by @gabilotta.bsky.social & Mark Considine) How do fragmented approaches to policy implementation undermine the response to the needs of vulnerable populations❓ doi.org/10.1111/1467...

Highlights from 8⃣4⃣ (4⃣) #SpecialIssue on #StreetLevel #Organisations & #Bureaucrats (co-guest edited by @gabilotta.bsky.social & Mark Considine) How did #SLBs adapt to changing conditions by exercising discretion in the implementation of #Covid19 crisis response❓ doi.org/10.1111/1467...

📅 Wrapped up 2025 with the latest Issue December 2025 Issue on the #PoliticsofIntermediation, co-guest edited Avri Eitan, David Levi-Faur, & Jale Tosun is out ❗️ The collection examines the multifaceted roles of intermediaries in policy and governance👇 academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...