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📚️Family and Disability Activism: Beyond Allies and Obstacles

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✏️ Editors: Pamela Block, Allison C. Carey, Richard K. Scotch
✏️ Reviewer: David Carey Jr.

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July 7, 2026 at 10:03 AM
New paper 🚨: "Measuring Frame Evolution: Smoothed Temporal Framing Trajectories in Complex Policy Debates" with Kristijan Garic in #JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies (doi.org/10.1111/jcms...). #policystudies #networkanalysis #framing #polisky #sna #publicpolicy #policydebate #networkscience
May 29, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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April 16, 2026 at 4:07 PM
📣 Call for special issues 📣

If you'd like to guest edit a special issue of Policy & Politics submit your proposal by 30 April!

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February 2, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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January 16, 2026 at 12:01 PM
📘✨ New Release! The Gift is a powerful research-based book exploring strategic studies and global power dynamics. A must-read for thinkers, analysts, and policy enthusiasts.

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December 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM
🚨 #CfP reminder!
Join us in Oxford (13 Jan 2026) for
‘Social Policy in Europe: Diverse Contexts, Shared Challenges’

Exploring European #SocialPolicy?
We welcome papers using diverse methods and perspectives on urgent and evolving issues in the field 🌍

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October 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Has digitalization changed policy-making dynamics at the European Union (EU) level? To investigate this issue, this article by C. Bérut presents a scoping review of the literature on EU digital policy-making. Link in comments! #PolicyStudies #policyprocess #publicpolicy #polisci
September 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Why do governments accept short-term costs for uncertain long-term gains? This article by P. Tuytens & C. Haberstroh argues narratives about the future reshape expectations of costs & benefits, driving intertemporal policy change. Link in comments! #PolicyStudies #policyprocess #publicpolicy
September 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
New in EPA! This article by K. Eriksson et al. examines the fire and rescue services sector in Sweden in the period 1986–2021, and explains the timing of bureaucratic reforms using the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF). Link in comments! #PolicyStudies #policyprocess #publicpolicy #polisci #msf
September 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
How do citizens interact with street-level bureaucrats? A. Ricotta et al. reviewed 50 studies and identified a repertoire of attitudes and behaviors, from compliance to opposition, with exit as a last resort. Link in comments! #PolicyStudies #policyprocess #publicpolicy #polisci
August 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Out now! M. L. Edwards analyzes NEPA reforms under Trump and Biden, demonstrating how regulatory change reflects broader logics of governance. His study underscores the need for a nuanced view of environmental policy shifts. Link in the comments! #PolicyStudies #policyprocess #publicpolicy #polisci
August 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Subnational governments are emerging as key arenas of climate governance. This article by I. Bailey & R. Karapin explores how states in the US and Australia can shape or compensate for weak national climate policy. Link in the comments! #PolicyStudies #policyprocess #publicpolicy #polisci
August 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Policy Perspectives" is the flagship journal of the Institute of #PolicyStudies (IPS) — an Islamabad-based think tank dedicated to promoting policy-oriented research and human development. 🖇️ #Governance #InternationalRelations

Peer-reviewed and 💎 #OpenAccess by @pluto-journals.bsky.social 👇
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August 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Out now! R. McGovern et al. test the Narrative Policy Framework’s media hypothesis via Ghana’s energy crisis. Comparing private & state news, they show when & how media act as contributors. Link in comments! #PolicyStudies #policyprocess #publicpolicy #polisci #npf
August 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
New in RPR! Using Ghana as a case study, this paper by F. L. K. Ohemeng attempts to demonstrate, from a historical institutional perspective, why capacity problems in Africa continue to exist. Link in the comment! #PolicyStudies #policyprocess #publicpolicy #polisci
August 17, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This paper by A. V. Lopes & M. A. M. Oliveira explains how public appointments shape the profile of the top-level public bureaucracy, based on the analysis of the appointments of directors of the largest independent Brazilian agency. Link in the comments! #PolicyStudies #policyprocess #publicpolicy
August 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Despite extensive work on policy diffusion, its Western roots limit applicability, and little is known about mechanisms in non-Western contexts. Y. Yang studies paths to successful environmental pilot policy diffusion in China. Link in comments! #PolicyStudies #policyprocess #publicpolicy #polisci
August 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Out now! This study by Y. Bao, M. Hua & Z. Fang examines if teachers’ sense of meaninglessness under China’s “Double Reduction” policy drives exhaustion and weakens professional identity. Link in comments! #PolicyStudies #policyprocess #publicpolicy #polisci
August 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Focusing on public–private partnership (PPP) policies, this study by H. Sun & L. Zhou adopts both qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) and necessary condition analysis (NCA) to examine policy reinvention across 36 cities in China. Link in the comments! #PolicyStudies #policyprocess #publicpolicy
August 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This research by J. E. Boscarino explores an underexamined aspect of narratives in the policy process: how the act of narration affects participants, contributing to NPF theory building and future research. Link in the comments! #PolicyStudies #policyprocess #publicpolicy #polisci
August 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This paper by C. Bergonzini & F. Donati explores gender mainstreaming in urban food policies (UFPs) through three Spanish case studies. While UFPs are key to sustainable urban food systems, gender disparities remain largely overlooked. Link in the comments! #PolicyStudies #policyprocess #polisci
August 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
By exploring combinations of educative and non-­educative nudges on citizens' co-­production intentions, this study by T. Zhai et al. seeks to advance our understanding of the role of nudges in fostering public participation. Link in the comments! #PolicyStudies #policyprocess #polisci #nudging
August 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
E. Pundziūtė-Gallois shows how NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence (2014–2016) emerged via pragmatic policymaking; fluid, relational, nonlinear, with shifting actors in loosely defined spaces. In new SI guest-edited by C. Ansell, P. Hassenteufel & P. Zittoun. Link in comments! #PolicyStudies
July 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM