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<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library This paper explores the significance of characters within the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF), addressing the foundational question of their role and purpose in policy narratives. We argue that char...

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Drawing on the Narrative Policy Framework, this PSJ article introduces the loser - a narrative character harmed not by the problem, but by the policy solution itself.

By Rachel McGovern, Hilda Broqvist & Crystal Soderman

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PSJ is excited to welcome Lina Garcia as Editorial Assistant!

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This PSJ open access perspective rethinks anonymity, non-participation, and spectatorship as overlooked democratic practices, with guidance for empirical study.

By Andrea Felicetti

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When sunshine gets you down: The role of transparency on public sentiment toward the Amazon HQ2 competition In 2017, Amazon launched a high-profile competition to choose a location for its second headquarters (HQ2). More than 230 U.S. cities submitted bids, many offering huge incentive packages to lure t…

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What happens when incentive deals go public, and does transparency change how people feel about them? Insights from the Amazon HQ2 competition.

By Eric Stokan, Ian G. Anson & Nathan M. Jensen

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What does the Trump administration reveal about the future of policy process research? Check out this PSJ Perspective pointing to new directions in policy process research.

By @chris-koski.bsky.social

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Explore our Cultural Theory Issue—one of 8 featured policy theories

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<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Despite extensive evidence that emotion and cognition are deeply intertwined, the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) lacks an analytically independent emotional mechanism in its causal architecture—a...

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Explore this PSJ article proposing novel theoretical extensions to the Advocacy Coalition Framework, including emotional anchoring of policymakers, affective policy subsystems, and affective brokerage.

By @msmaor.bsky.social

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Does policy design matter for the effectiveness of local content requirements? A qualitative comparative analysis of renewable energy value chains Governments around the world use local content requirements (LCR) to boost domestic industries by requiring renewable energy projects to use a certain share of locally-made components. The idea is …

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Check out this PSJ blog post on how policy design shapes the effectiveness of local content requirements across renewable energy value chains.

By @laimaeicke.bsky.social

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Take a look at our Virtual Special Issue on Health - one of 8 featured policy topics.

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Dive into this PSJ open-access article analyzing turnout patterns among young adults and explore the mechanisms connecting adolescent welfare participation to later voting behavior.

By Nathan K. Micatka

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Using longitudinal fieldwork and interviews, this PSJ open-access article shows how frontline discretion in problem-gambling prevention feeds back into policy redesign.

By Niccolò Aimo & Federico Cuomo

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The dynamics of constituency representation on immigration policy in the U.S. house Immigration policy used to be a bipartisan issue, but now it is one of the most divisive in American politics. This study explores how lawmakers’ behavior changed as immigration became a party-defi…

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Who represents immigrants in Congress when immigration becomes partisan? Check out this PSJ blog post exploring how polarization shifts representation from district demographics to party control.

By Adam Cayton & Lena Siemers

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<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Projected energy shortages in the United States have intensified interest in nuclear power as a low-carbon energy source, yet public acceptance remains a persistent challenge. This study employs a pr....

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Is it one thing to support nuclear energy, and another to live next to it? This PSJ open-access article shows how proximity and risk information shape public acceptance of nuclear power.

By Hyorim Seo & Yong-Chan Rhee

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Dive into our Virtual Special Issue on Foreign Policy—one of 8 featured policy topics

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This new PSJ open-access article examines “devil” and “angel” shifts by comparing ACF and NPF approaches to collective action.

By Johanna Hornung, Allegra H. Fullerton & Christopher M. Weible

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How do leaders craft crisis narratives? Explore this PSJ open-access article analyzing how evidence, emotion, and gain/loss framing shaped COVID-19 vaccination messaging in Italy and France.

By Laura Mastroianna & Stefania Profeti

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Voting access reforms and policy feedback effects on political efficacy and trust In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced states to rethink election administration across the United States. To make voting safer, many states expanded mail voting options like no-excuse absentee voti…

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Explore the latest PSJ blog post examining how expanded mail voting relates to voter access, political efficacy, and trust in government.

By Andrew Trexler, Marayna Martinez & Mallory E. SoRelle

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Explore newly available articles advancing policy scholarship in PSJ Early View!

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"In both cases, collaboration was sought to address climate policy—a conceivably wicked issue—however, when faced with stakeholder contention, governments arguably sidestepped the collaborative process and reverted it back into the political debate."

<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Polling organizations, like other policy actors, must prioritize certain issues. We argue that, for normative and financial reasons, pollsters prioritize issues that are viewed as important by other ...

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We classify poll questions from the 1980s-2010s into policy agendas topic codes + find attention in polling responds to public priorities, predicts cong + media attention.

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This open access PSJ article introduces a framework for analyzing leading, linking, and leveraging roles across political systems, with a case on climate policy in Canada and the Netherlands.

By Erin Sullivan, Bert Fraussen & Caelesta Braun

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<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Interstate compacts are formal structures through which multiple states work together towards a common goal or shared agenda. Previous research on compacts focuses almost exclusively on the decision ...

How did interstate collaboration shape COVID-19 policy diffusion? This PSJ open-access article from our latest issue examines compacts, leadership, ideology, and state adoption patterns.

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From Germination to Transformation: Policy Studies in China Over the Past Half-Century (1970s–2020s) - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Epistemic Impact of Large Language Models on Policymaking - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Climate policy support in the UK: An interaction of worldviews and policy types Public support is critical for reaching net-zero goals, yet most research treats climate policies as a single, homogenous category. This approach effectively overlooks how climate policies differ i…

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Designing climate policy? Dive into this PSJ blog post on how cultural worldviews and policy design shape public support for net-zero in the UK.

By Christian Bretter & Felix Schulz

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Balancing Participation and Speed: A Polycentric Governance Lens on Renewable-Energy Siting - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Applying Systems Thinking and Participatory Design to Policy Development - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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This open access PSJ article uses a motif-based approach and ERGM simulations to evaluate strategies for facilitating collaboration, with evidence from Swedish water governance.

By Johanna Hedlund, Florence Metz, and Örjan Bodin

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