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Special Issue Article: “It's Who You Know:” Bureaucratic Responsiveness in the Rural South

From: Carolyn Y. Barnes

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Opening the Black Box of EU Digital Sovereignty: A Macro‐Level Analysis of the Concept's Development Digital sovereignty has emerged as a central organizing principle in European Union governance, yet systematic understanding of its conceptual evolution remains limited. This article provides the fir....

Digital sovereignty is a strategically flexible concept, and if you are interested in its development and evolution, check our new article in @govjournal.bsky.social: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Administrative burdens can be a powerful political weapon. To punish undesirable populations or policies by throwing up barriers. Or to reward politically loyal groups with privileged access. We study Mexico City´s social housing policy to exemplify the latter @govjournal.bsky.social:

Central bank shifts tone when reputation is threatened, study finds | King's College London New research has found a stark contrast in how policymakers at independent technocratic institutions such as central banks respond to different types of reputational risk.

How do central bankers talk when their reputation is at stake? Here's a brief post about a recent study by Christel Koop and myself on the Bank of England:
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Call for Nominations: The 2026 Levine Prize is now open! Books must be published in 2025 and submitted by March 15, 2026.
Committee: Eduardo Dargent, @danhonig.bsky.social, and
@kbersch.bsky.social (chair). (Sponsored by IPSA’s RC27 and
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Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Assessing the Democratic Accountability of Europe's New Industrial Policy This article asks “who controls the controllers” now that the European Commission—long responsible for controlling the conduct of industrial policy in the EU's internal market—increasingly pursues it...

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Actions Speak Louder Than Words: Assessing the Democratic Accountability of Europe's New Industrial Policy

With @christyapetit.bsky.social we ask "who controls the controllers?" in the EU's industrial policy regime

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The winner will be announced in the October 2026 issue of Governance, and in the SOG Newsletter.

Note: Please ensure that books being nominated will reach all members of the committee by 15 March 2026.

The Levine Prize will be awarded to the book published in 2025 that best meets these criteria. Nominations should be made by 15 March 2026 and sent to the committee. Please send a copy of the book to all three members of the committee.

3. It takes an explicitly comparative perspective or produces findings the implications of which are highly significant for comparative research.
4. It is written in an accessible style and form so that it is of value both to scholars and practitioners.

The book selected should meet the following criteria:

1. It was published in 2025.
2. It makes a contribution of considerable theoretical or practical significance in the field of public policy and administration.

International Political Science Association (SOG). After his untimely death in 1988, the Editorial Board of Governance and the Executive Committee of SOG established an annual book prize in his memory.

Charles H. Levine was an outstanding scholar in the fields of public policy and administration. He played a major role in the creation and early life of both the journal Governance and its sponsor, the Structure and Organization of Government Research Committee of the ...

THE 2026 CHARLES H. LEVINE MEMORIAL BOOK PRIZE

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

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New Article: The Social Consequence of Bureaucratic Oversight: Evidence From the Great Chinese Famine

From Ning He (@ninghe1.bsky.social)

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How do political institutions shape today’s wave of economic interventionism? 🇺🇸 vs 🇪🇺

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New original article: What's in a Polity? Political Institutions and Varieties of Economic Interventionism in the United States and the European Union

From: @donatodc.bsky.social, Lorenzo Moretti, and @manuelamoschella.bsky.social

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New original article: Is Responsibility Intuitive in a Public Encounter?

From: Anthony M. Bertelli and Silvia Cannas

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Read our article, together w/ @dtoshkov.bsky.social and Brendan Carroll, on the perceived legitimacy of region-specific crisis interventions in Germany and the Netherlands, here ➡️ doi.org/10.1111/gove...

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NEW SPECIAL ISSUE: The Politics and Governance of Migration

Guest editors: Tiziana Caponio, Maria Schiller, & Cathrine Talleraas

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Special Issue Article: The Politics and Governance of Migration

By: Tiziana Caponio, Maria Schiller, & Cathrine Talleraas

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New Practitioner's Perspective: Thailand's Rural Doctor Movement: Their Contributions and Challenges

From: Viroj Tangcharoensathien, Jongjit Rittirong, Pattraporn Chuenglertsiri, Pongthep Wongwatcharapaiboon, and Joseph Harris

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Governance: Vol 38, No 4 Click on the title to browse this issue

Latest issue: October 2025 - Governance: Volume 38, Issue 4

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Partisanship and the Gender Pay Gap in Local Government Partisanship may play a part in shaping gender equality within public organizations, especially in local governments, which are often subject to direct political control. Using a Regression Discontin...

New on Early View: Partisanship and the Gender Pay Gap in Local Government

From: Jose Manuel Alonso & Rhys Andrews

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New Article: Norm Adherence, Trust, and Citizens' Compliance: Exploring Citizens Attitudes to Public Welfare Institutions Across Europe

From: @mathealo.bsky.social

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New Article: People-Processing Capacity: The Origins and Development of Institutions to Render Forced Migrants as Cases in Canada and Sweden

From: Andreas Asplen Lundstedt

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Coping With Competing Institutional Logics in Policy Implementation While recent research has studied the coping behaviors of street-level bureaucrats (SLBs), less attention has been paid to the institutional antecedents of these coping behaviors. This paper examines...

How institutional logics shape SLBs' meso-level organizational conflicts and micro-level coping behaviors

Manlin Xiao, Xueyong Zhan & Arnaud Cudennec
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New on Early View: Legislative Hearings and Presidential Cabinet Management

From: Don S. Lee

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New on Early View: Consumer Authorities in Europe: Policing Markets or Empowering Consumers?

From: @jacintjc.bsky.social‬ @joaquinrozas.bsky.social‬ @juancarlos-trivino.bsky.social‬

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📢 New article
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🔎 Party Receptiveness to Interest Group Diversity: Evidence From Policymaking in Six European Democracies.
📖 Open access in Governance @govjournal.bsky.social
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Latest Issue: April 2025 - Volume 38, Issue 2

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