📢 🆕 NEW in Local Government Studies Journal: 'Institutional pressures and local climate policy isomorphism in Ireland' by Paul Wagner from @edinburghnapier.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0300...

New Publication: Institutional pressures and local #climate policy isomorphism in #Ireland www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘The problem is that we are now recycling so much stuff that it’s impossible to recycle it all.’ @brettchristophers.bsky.social reviews three new books on the problem of trash, including 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 by Oliver Franklin-Wallis and Alexander Clapp’s 𝘞𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘳𝘴. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

....Anna Kukkonen, Arttu Malkamäki, @petrocelik.bsky.social, Keiichi Satoh, Mark Stoddart, Pradip Swarnakar, and @paulmwagner.bsky.social.

New publication alert! With Keiichi Satoh et al., we argue that coalition opportunity structures have an effect on what makes policy actors tick. Using a dataset of subsystems in nine countries, we find that belief homophily is associated with majoritarian countries. @psjeditor.bsky.social

Who gets media attention in national climate politics? It’s not just those with formal power. Our new study finds that actors with informal power - being central in a policy network – are more visible than others in the mainstream Finnish press media. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The University of Manchester seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Environmental Politics. More info: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM071/. Closing date: 8/5/2025. I am not involved in the search but would love to see more colleagues in environmental policy and governance. #PublicPolicy #Polisky #PolicyProcess

Do #climate policy actors behave differently online to offline? Our paper shows how #Irish agricultural interests use X to amplify the voices of those who share their interests, while they collaborate with Ireland’s political and economic establishment offline. link.springer.com/article/10.1...