🆕Early view Bruno Q. Cunha, Felix G. Lopez & I study #militarisation of regulatory agencies in #Brazil The article highlights #MilitarizedPatronage in regulatory agencies & the military as a #CoalitionPartner & the enabling conditions 👇 doi.org/10.1111/gove...

Season's Greetings from @ausjpa.bsky.social 🌲 🎅 We are proud to host the conversation on #Australia & beyond on our pages We wish you all a joyous #FestiveSeason & a #HappyNewYear! Look forward to 2⃣0⃣2⃣6⃣ with our #Australian roots & #Global reach 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/loi/14678500

Season's greetings from @policysociety.bsky.social 🎄 In 2⃣0⃣2⃣5⃣, 3⃣ Issues examined #GenerativeAI, #PolicyAdvisorySystems, #Malignity in policy sciences & a forthcoming Issue on #PolicyIntermediaries We wish you all a joyous #HolidaySeason & a #HappyNewYear & look forward to 2⃣0⃣2⃣6⃣

Highlights from 8⃣4⃣(4⃣) the #SpecialIssue on #StreetLevel #Organisations & #Bureaucrats (co-guest edited by @gabilotta.bsky.social & Mark Considine) @lutfunlata.bsky.social & colleagues examine the barriers to equity by centralised & street-level public governance approaches👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

Highlights from 8⃣4⃣ (4⃣) the #SpecialIssue on #StreetLevel #Organisations & #Bureaucrats (co-guest edited by @gabilotta.bsky.social & Mark Considine) Nashellit González-Martínez & @rikpeeters2.bsky.social study informal street-level interactions & citizen–state relations 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

While some countries have #externalised the #PolicyAdvisorySystem (PAS), it may still be #politicised in others Justa Mwangi studies three critical players in the PAS in Kenya’s subnational governments: the state, business and civil society 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Is maintaining regime stability the only function of #PolicyAdvisorySystems (PAS) in #AuthoritarianRegimes ❓ @mussagulova.bsky.social & Saltanat Janenova show that #ResearchOrganizations can carve out their own space in the PAS in authoritarian regimes 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Highlights from 8⃣4⃣ (4⃣) the #SpecialIssue on #StreetLevel #Organisations & #Bureaucrats (co-guest edited by @gabilotta.bsky.social & Mark Considine) Jawad Abu Younis, Anna Uster & Itai Beeri explore #CoProduction between the state and non-profits in #Israel 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

🎊 Congratulations to Nicole El-Haber & Dr Swati Nagpa for winning this year’s #IPAA #SamRichardsonAward for the most influential paper published in @ausjpa.bsky.social in 2024 #SamRichardsonAward page ❓ 👇 www.ipaa.org.au/national-awa... The article ❓ 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

🆕 Competition among #PolicyIntermediaries influences policy outcomes & the long-term #sustainability of #heritage preservation Laurence Delina & colleagues study how local intermediaries assist #farmers in addressing challenges presented by #modernity 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

📣 Highlights from 8⃣4⃣ (4⃣) & the #SpecialIssue on #StreetLevel #Organisations & #Bureaucrats (co-guest edited by @gabilotta & Mark Considine) 📚 Claudio Domenig & Fritz Sager study how street-level organisations adapt to a new legal framework after regulatory reform 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

📣 Vol 8⃣4⃣ ( 4⃣ ) is out 🌞 The December 2025 Issue features a #SpecialIssue on the implications of new public governance for #StreetLevel #organisations and #bureaucrats & 3⃣ research articles See our newsletter 👇 mailchi.mp/e74ef5557f23... For the Issue 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678500...

🆕 What qualifications & characteristics do presidential staff prioritize in ministers when assessing the latter’s role as #PolicyIntermediaries between the presidential office & ministries❓ Don S. Lee & Min H. Kim use a novel conjoint experimental design 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Is #success in one domain (i.e., #Policy, #Process, and #Political) sufficient to ensure success in other domains ❓ Scott Prasser shows why success needs to be seen across the interrelated areas of policy, process, and politics 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

🧐 How could we examine the contextual embeddedness of #Thinktanks in contexts of de-democratization❓ Andrea Krizsan, Katarzyna Jezierska & Adrienne Sörbom study two extreme cases of de-democratization within the #EuropeanUnion: #Hungary & #Poland 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Thanks Daniel and Al for a great panel and presentations! I presented on work in progress with Neil Mortimer 👇 This builds upon our recent @ausjpa.bsky.social paper and new framework for understanding crisis policy learning: doi.org/10.1111/1467...

☕️ How does managing a #BlendedWorkforce impact the well-being of middle managers in the public service ❓ Vindhya Weeratunga, Fiona Buick, Deborah Blackman, Michael O'Donnellexplore the unintended consequences of the blended workforce model 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

Great panel @auspsa.bsky.social yesterday discussing AI/ChatGPT in teaching, with Blair Williams, Diane Perche, Rob Manwaring @mussagulova.bsky.social and Narelle Miragliotta. I’ve written about my experience with this in @ausjpa.bsky.social

In case you missed @ausjpa.bsky.social's trending article @christianeva.bsky.social examines the #IndigenousProcurementPolicy in #Australia & shows half of the $7 billion spent in the first eight years of the policy went to just 18 businesses 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

For the Guardian, @jonhenley.bsky.social reports on our new research briefs on the politics of housing. Current policies too often treat housing as an asset. Housing as a social right has nearly disappeared from the agenda of even progressive parties. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Can #clientelism be designed out of #SocialPolicies ❓ @kidjiesaguin.bsky.social explores alternative conceptions of dealing with the “dark side” of policymaking & discusses how policy tools can perform the “detecting” function to address clientelism 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

What is on the menu 🧑‍🍳❓ @ausjpa.bsky.social's December is in the press & brings together a co-guest edited (by @gabilotta.bsky.social & Mark Considine) special issue on #NewPublicGovernance at street-level The Issue will also include 3⃣ research articles More soon...👇

🧐 Why and how does the politics of #PolicyDesign shape #Decentralization outcomes ❓ Satyajit Singh examines the reasons for decentralization of #NaturalResources in India within a political economy framework 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

"Guys, seriously, get your own lawyer if you need it. Elon’s great, but you need to watch your own back.” What happened to DOGE after Musk left. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

How can governments respond to #PolicyBubbles driven by #DysfunctionalEmotions❓ @msmaor.bsky.social invites policy scholars and practitioners to start a conversation about situations in which intense #emotions spark #maladaptive #behavioral consequences 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

🗞️ Early view #RegulatoryDarkMatter are instruments that often evade democratic oversight, despite binding regulatory ramifications Michael McGuinness & colleagues examine the influence of unofficial rules, soft law & quasi-regulatory mechanisms in #Australia 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

🗞️ Early view #PolicyLearning literature has generated a prolific endeavour & examines learning processes at micro-, meso- and macro-levels @bishoyzaki.bsky.social focuses on the meso-level & conceptualises the scarcely theorised ‘organisational policy learning’ 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

☕️ Early view #PolicyCapacity available to oppositions and parliaments has received less attention Darren A. Disney studies the policy capacity across major Australian national and sub-national jurisdictions 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

How do #AdvocacyCoalitions mobilise at the macro-system and policy subsystems❓ Christopher Weible, @annacrawford.bsky.social, @kaylamgabehart.bsky.social gabehart.bsky.social, @giuliamariani.bsky.social & colleagues introduce deep core coalitions 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

⏰ Early view What is the mediating role of laissez-faire leadership in the relationship between #MeaningfulWork & #JobSatisfaction ❓ Abid Hussain & Esme Franken examine the interplay between #Autonomy, #Leadership, and #OrganisationalConstraints 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

🧐 In case you missed it Phuc Nguyen & colleagues study the under-performing provision of employment services in #Australia They apply the #SupplyChainManagement theory & visualise the network of stakeholders involved in the provision of employment services 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

🆕 Early view 🗣️ How could we design #deliberative summits better ❓ Heath Pickering discusses the @cityofmelbourne.bsky.social's #M2050 Summit. The article derives four lessons for improvements and the bases for replication elsewhere 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

Why should we care about (a specific form of) #MalignPolicymaking - #IllegalAction by the state❓ @adamjhannah.bsky.social & Linda Botterill study the #Robodebt scandal in #Australia & discuss how the government avoided Parliamentary and media oversight👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

🤔Why problems that are identified as unintended & negative are not addressed❓ B. Guy Peters & Maximilian L. Nagel discuss whether they are ever addressed or rather become #ZombiePolicies & the difficulties in #coordination and #coherence in public policies 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

🧩 Early view What does #intermediation look like in #WeaklyIinstitutionalized contexts characterized by limited #state #oversight and prevalent #informality ❓ Aviram Sharma draws empirical insights from the #BottledWater quality regulations in #India 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

♨️Early view Who defines #success in #IndigenousPolicymaking❓ Christian Eva provides the most comprehensive quantitative analysis of the distribution of #Procurement contracts to #IndigenousBusinesses 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

🧐 Which are the "most-read" "top-5" articles published in 2025 ❓ You have been reading #PolicySuccess & #failure, foundations of a #HumaneGovernment, #BureaucraticGovernance, #PolicyImplementation & In Memoriam #GemmaCarey👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1467...

🧐 Are #RevolvingDoor policies effective ❓ Why do regulators have to strengthen #oversight & cultivate #EthicalCulture ❓ Filippo Silano assesses the risks of #MalignPolicy through the lens of the revolving door phenomenon & #PublicDebtManagement 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

⏰Early view How is #Empathy understood by public servants❓ How do #PublicServants practise empathy in their work❓ @mussagulova.bsky.social, Jaime Padilla, & Andy Asquith study how empathy is enacted and structured into public service work 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

📢Early view What do welfare preferences in #DividedSocieties teach us about #NationalIdentity ❓ Peter Ward & @stevendenney86.bsky.social find that candidates orginally from Eastern Germany or North Korea are less preferred by Western Germans and South Koreans 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

⏰ Early view How is #merit conceptualised in public sector merit protection frameworks ❓ Sue Williamson & colleagues examine the #MeritProtectionFrameworks in the #AustralianCapitalTerritory, #Queensland & #Aotearoa in #NewZealand👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

🧩Early view Who are #intermediaries❓ What are intermediaries' functions, roles & impact in governance❓ Avri Eitan, David Levi-Faur & Jale Tosun introduce the upcoming Special Issue on the multifaceted roles of intermediaries in #policy & #governance 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Today, @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social explains how the Trump Administration’s use of individualized, firm-level waivers and exemptions marks a new frontier in presidential control of the administrative state — turning deregulation into a tool for distributing political favors.

📌 Join us at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics with @soasnssrfree.bsky.social for a discussion with Costas Lapavitsas and Clara Mattei, Chaired by Hanin Khawaja 🎤 Imperialism: Economics of Re-armament and Militarism 🌍 info and registration 🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

📣 Early View What constitutes an ideal-type #MicroLevel #Learning process during a #crisis ❓ And what challenges might undermine this ideal ❓ Neil Mortimer & @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social study #Australia's #COVID19 crisis learning as an exemplar case 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

🔥Hot off the press How have governments within liberal regimes found a tool for reclaiming authority in the #Nationalization of #ElectricitySystems #Operators❓ Jose M. Valenzuela studies the role of system operators in this process in #Chile & the #UnitedKingdom👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

👉 @policysociety.bsky.social celebrates the #OAWeek As a fully #OpenAccess top-tier political science and public administration journal, @policysociety.bsky.social endorses open access publishing. For more information about @policysociety.bsky.social 👇 academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

👉It is #OAWeek @ausjpa.bsky.social endorses Open Access publishing & publishes #OpenAccess The share of open access articles was only 3⃣% in 2018. It has reached 6⃣9⃣% in 2024. As of September 2025, it is 6⃣1⃣%. For more information 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1467...

📣 Early View How does #PolicyCapacity impact managing wicked problems such as climate change in the #GlobalSouth ❓ Rameen Khan & Fiaz Hussain provide insights into the capacities needed for effective #ClimateChange #PolicyWork in #Pakistan 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...