Review of Policy Research

<em>Review of Policy Research</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Electric vehicles (EVs) are a key strategy for reducing transportation greenhouse gas emissions. State and local EV policies in the United States often extend beyond the transportation sector, impact...

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This study by A. Soni & L. P. Berthelot combines descriptive and summative measures with text analysis to track the composition and evolution of subnational EV policy actions over nearly three decades, spanning a range of policy domains. Link in the comments! #policyprocess #publicpolicy #polisci

<em>Review of Policy Research</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Electric vehicles (EVs) are a key strategy for reducing transportation greenhouse gas emissions. State and local EV policies in the United States often extend beyond the transportation sector, impact...

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This study by S. Zheng, A. J. He & Y. He investigates how intergovernmental interactions, specifically formal authority interactions and informal competitive interactions, shape the adoption of climate policies by Chinese provincial governments. Link in the comments! #policyprocess #publicpolicy

<em>Review of Policy Research</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Researchers have recently examined changes to American environmental policy under the Trump administration's first term, and to a lesser extent, under the Biden administration. Scholars have largely ...

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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

<em>Review of Policy Research</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Recent years have seen growing interest in subnational governments as arenas of climate governance, but limited systematic research exists on the extent, conditions, or pathways through which subnati...

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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

<em>Review of Policy Research</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library The Narrative Policy Framework's (NPF) media hypothesis posits that the media are policy actors, actively contributing to policy debates. However, recent critics have argued that the hypothesis is po...

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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

<em>Review of Policy Research</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Why is policy capacity still a problem after years of capacity-building initiatives in Africa? Many African states continue to lack policy capacity. Despite recognizing the limited policy capacity is....

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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

<em>Review of Policy Research</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Public appointments shape the top-level bureaucracy by serving as a gateway for professionals with different profiles, chosen based on different criteria. In general, the literature has been more int....

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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

<em>Review of Policy Research</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Despite the extensive development of policy diffusion literature, its Western-oriented foundations constrain broader applicability, and empirical investigations on how multiple mechanisms interact in...

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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

<em>Review of Policy Research</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Limited research attention has been devoted to understanding whether policy meaninglessness is related to professional turnover intention among street-level bureaucrats, especially in China. Drawing ...

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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

<em>Review of Policy Research</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Policy reinvention is a crucial issue in policy innovation, yet it has garnered little attention from scholars, particularly in the context of China. Focusing on public–private partnership (PPP) poli...

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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

<em>Review of Policy Research</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) addresses the decisions that actors make when constructing policy narratives and the influence of those narratives on policy dynamics. This research explores an u...

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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

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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

<em>Review of Policy Research</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Investigating how government departments allocate attention provides insights into the different levels of emphasis placed on different types of policies. Identifying factors that shape local governm....

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New in RPR! Y. Zhao et al. examine differences in pandemic-related policy choices and propose a framework to analyze how attention is allocated to post-pandemic recovery under conditional constraints, using the attention-based view. Link in comments! #PolicyStudies #policyprocess #publicpolicy

<em>Review of Policy Research</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library In Colorado, cattle farming—the state's leading agricultural sector—is a significant source of methane emissions. In response, both the government and producers have initiated efforts to mitigate the....

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Out now! This new study by L. Lecuyer & M. Verrier explores how new procedural instruments drive institutional innovation in US agri-climate policy, focusing on farmers' roles in local implementation.
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<em>Review of Policy Research</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Positioning them as risk management tools, policy scholars and pundits often suggest that well-crafted climate legislation can help societies manage and mitigate the environmental costs and harms ass....

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In this paper, S. B. Bush argues that climate policy must account not only for the risks of fossil fuel dependence but also for the environmental and geopolitical risks tied to critical minerals essential for green technologies. Link in the comments! #PolicyStudies #policyprocess #publicpolicy