#ComplexSocietalProblems are persistent and feature contested goals, incomplete knowledge & uncertain, path‑dependent effects Claudio Lazo, Andrea Kerstens & Angela Greco synthesize a hierarchical structure of problem complexity dimensions 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Designing effective packages is difficult because instruments differ in expected impact and how citizens evaluate them Yuhao Ba, Yiyun Xia & Shanyue Wang evaluate policy packages in electric-vehicle (EV) transition, AI regulation & population aging 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

📒 June 2026 Issue is out Guest-edited by @kidjiesaguin.bsky.social & @azadsinghbali.bsky.social, a symposium examines #CollaborativeGovernance in #SocialPolicy The Issue also hosts four research articles 👇 academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

📢Clarivate the 2026 #JournalCitationReport is out The #ImpactFactor has risen from 6.1 in 2024 to 6.2 in 2025. 🎊 @policysociety.bsky.social ranks 4th among 332 in Political Science journals & 2nd among 97 in Public Administration journals We thank our authors, reviewers, and readers

How detailed and compulsory are laws shaping #CollaborativeGovernanceRegimes and #CollaborativePlatforms❓ Jiho Kim, Brian Ohl, Nara Yoon & Tina Nabatchi examine laws in #Oregon that authorize or mandate collaborative governance👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

When and why is evidence likely to be mobilized more broadly ❓ Mariana Batista finds that the research characteristics matter to the bureaucrat’s attitudes toward evidence use 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

#Scopus #CiteScore 2025 is out ❗️ @policysociety.bsky.social ranks 1⃣st among #PublicAdministration & 2⃣nd among #PoliticalScienceandInternationalRelations journals 🎊 We sincerely thank our authors, reviewers, and readers 👇 www.scopus.com/sourceid/570...

Got a big idea for Special Issues that challenge policy thinking❓ @policysociety.bsky.social is inviting proposals for #SpecialIssues that critically examine established frameworks, develop new conceptual tools, or open promising lines of inquiry 👇 academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

How little attention public policy scholarship has paid to personal experience as a driver of policy attitudes and behavior Arnost Vesely & Ivan Petrusek conceptualize personal experience as a distinct mechanism of attitude formation 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

The way we measure the success of #BehavioralPublicPolicies (BPPs) camouflages inequalities Till Grüne-Yanoff suggests #InterventionFairness to understand and analyse how and why BPPs treat people heterogeneously 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

What is the current state of #BehaviouralPublicPolicy (BPP) scholarship ❓ Swee Kiat Tay & Ching Leong analyse 2,301 BPP articles from 1980 to 2024 on the Scopus database & observe an exponential increase in BPP publications and thematic shifts 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

The role of #IndigenousPeoples in #ForestProtection is crucial Marco J Haenssgen, Maria Ann Sanu & Ivo Vlaev explore how innovative policy options can support their natural resource management from the bottom up 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Can inaction, before a crisis, often interpreted as the absence of entrepreneurship, in fact be a deliberate posture aimed at reinforcing the status quo ❓ Damien Ballereau & Sabine Saurugger offer a more nuanced understanding of entrepreneurial role 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

#BehavioralPublicPolicy’s rapid growth has outpaced its conceptual consolidation Alejandro Hortal argues that the field must strive for greater precision and consistency, even if full definitional closure remains elusive 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Can #StrategicForesight function as a legitimate and effective source of #evidence for policymaking ❓ Laura De Vito & @gaiataffoni.bsky.social develop a conceptual framework that foregrounds enablers for reliability and usability of #StrategicForesight evidence 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

How can policymakers in chronically reform-sclerotic economies leverage crisis framing to fast-track radical policy reforms ❓ Tolga Bolukbasi develops an integrative framework that opens the black box between shock and outcome 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Markets in developing countries are commonly informal & the dynamics of the informal sector, and the dual nature of economies are under-theorized Aviram Sharma analyze the formal and informal processes of #intermediation in #India 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

Advocacy coalitions aren't just networks—they're full-fledged political machines. This article by Daniel Nohrstedt and Tim Heinmiller rethinks them as organizations with strategies, resources, and power plays in policy battles. doi.org/10.1093/pols... @policysociety.bsky.social

What makes top executive appointees qualified #PolicyIntermediaries in bridging the gap between the #president & the #ministry by communicating the president’s policy objectives to the latter ❓ Don S Lee & Min H Kim use a conjoint experimental design 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

How do government-affiliated intermediaries shape climate policy experiences ❓ Bruno Arcand explores the interactions between the state and government-affiliated intermediaries in the context of climate-related industrial policy 👇 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...

Under what conditions can #BehavioralPolicy interventions facing intense contestation still yield positive returns ❓ Giuseppe Veltri proposes a three-dimensional policy cube 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

How does #collaborative service delivery persist when the setting is not favorable & enabling conditions are weak ❓ Anka Kekez & Anat Gofen examine how #CollaborativeGovernance is made workable in constrained environments 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

The #BigTech is becoming ever more powerful in modern societies & the policy implications of its rise remain underexplored @rosalingrad.bsky.social, Hongzhou Zhang & @arazth.bsky.social develop an idealized theoretical construct of the #SuperPolicyEntrepreneur 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

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...

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

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 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...

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...

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...

#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...

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...

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...

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...

🗯️ #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...

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...

📣 #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 👇

📬 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...

👀 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...

👀 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...

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...

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...