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🏅 Celebrating Research Excellence! The PPM Best Article Award highlights the most exceptional contribution to the journal over the past year and this year, it is presented to J. Travis Bland, Ty Dooley, and Adam Williams for their outstanding paper. Congratulations‼️🎉

Have you had a chance to read the findings in "Is It Going Above and Beyond or Breaking the Rules? How Clients' Identities, Perceived Deservingness, and Outcomes Affect Citizens' Judgments of Bureaucrats' Rule Decisions"? doi.org/10.1111/padm...

Episodic memory facilitates flexible decision-making via access to detailed events - Nature Human Behaviour Nicholas and Mattar found that people use episodic memory to make decisions when it is unclear what will be needed in the future. These findings reveal how the rich representational capacity of episodic memory enables flexible decision-making.

In this Article, @jonathannicholas.bsky.social & @marcelomattar.bsky.social show that people use episodic memory to make decisions when it is unclear what will be needed in the future.

'Disability lived experience and expertise: recognising the expert contributions of people with disability' by Shane Clifton et al.

New Debate Article from our latest issue:

With #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1332/1744...

@bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social @mariahkornbluh.bsky.social

New publication alert! 🚨Our new PMR study tests how time strategies in crisis response—timing (pre vs post), sequence (defensive vs accommodative), tempo (fast vs slow)—shape public perceptions of local government reputation. Evidence from a 2×3×2 factorial experiment (n=1520).

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:

Highlights from 8⃣4⃣ (4⃣) the #SpecialIssue on #StreetLevel #Organisations & #Bureaucrats (co-guest edited by @gabilotta.bsky.social & Mark Considine)

Nashellit González-Martínez & @rikpeeters2.bsky.social study informal street-level interactions & citizen–state relations 👇

doi.org/10.1111/1467...

"Does Institutional Transparency Affect Citizen Trust in Predictive Policing? Evidence from a Survey-Experiment in The Netherlands" E. N. Nieuwenhuizen, V. Trehan, & G. Porumbescu examine whether legislative transparency and external oversight affect trust. doi.org/10.1111%2Fpa...

🏦 Obsolete but influential? @laurenleek.eu explores the surprising agenda-setting role of National Central Banks (NCBs) within the Eurosystem.

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New Episode (#38) of JPAM’s Closer Look Podcast!
Host Seth Gershenson (@AU_SPA) speaks with Pierre Koning and Carlos Riumalló-Herl, recipients of the 2025 Vernon Memorial Award, about their article “Selective exercise of discretion in disability insurance awards.”
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Can a digital nudge clean up the streets? How Behavioural Science helped reduce littering in the UK Littering is one of those persistent public problems that often feels unsolvable. Campaigns urging people to "do the right thing" rarely lead to lasting behaviour change, and enforcement is costly. A behaviourally-informed digital intervention is tested and shown to shift public habits more effectively.

Can a digital nudge clean up the streets? How Behavioural Science helped reduce littering in the UK

Littering is one of those persistent public problems that often feels unsolvable. Campaigns urging people to "do the right thing" rarely lead to lasting behaviour change, and enforcement is costly.…

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Read "Informing Governance for Food System Resilience: A Comparative Case Policy Analysis of Two Australian Regions Impacted by Multiple Disaster" by Sheriden Keegan, Kimberley Reis, Anne Roiko, and Cheryl Desha.

Find it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

BJPolS abstract of a study on bias in judicial decisions affecting juvenile criminal offenders, emphasizing the impact on immigrant offenders and suggesting reforms for a more equitable justice system.

NEW -

Anti-Immigrant Bias in the Choice Between Punitive and Rehabilitative Justice - https://cup.org/49vUfVa

- @riazsascha.bsky.social & @mhamjediers.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

A new interesting article by Silvia Lucciarini, Michele Santurro, and Alessandra Rimano is now available on our FirstView page. It is entitled "Measuring organizational effects on street-level bureaucrats’ discretionality: a comparative study of three Italian contexts”.
Enjoy it here: t.ly/Yo2t8

Explore this PSJ article tracing how U.S. states design and evolve medical and recreational cannabis policies, revealing three distinct policy bundles - pharmaceutical, permissive, and fiscal.

By Grant W. Neeley & Lilliard E. Richardson Jr.

Read here: doi.org/10.1111/psj....

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#OpenAccess from @epsrjournal.bsky.social -

Contrasting and combining the historical counterfactual method and the synthetic control method - https://cup.org/4oFq4iA

- Federico Podestà & Joan E. Madia

#FirstView

EARLY VIEW ALERT!

Read here:
Blocking the Poor: Status Quo Bias in Policy Congruence - doi.org/10.1111/psj....
By Mikael Persson & Anders Sundell

Policy Feedback and the 2021 Advanced Child Tax Credit - doi.org/10.1111/psj....
By Lyle Scruggs

#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal

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How does #PolicyTermination manifest, & to what extent is it deployed as a #strategic #practice ❓

✍️ InkeTorfs, EllenWayenberg, & Corneel De Vos study the #Flemish provinces in #Belgium & point to the misalignment between aspirations and capabilities 👇

doi.org/10.1093/pols...

A game of tariffs: is there demand for tariffs in Europe? In April 2025, the United States introduced sweeping tariffs on imports from the European Union and the United Kingdom, raising transatlantic tensions and prompting debate over Europe’s response. T...

Tariffs might be the word of 2025.

Given the state of *looks around* we asked: is there demand for tariffs in Europe?

@grahn.bsky.social @katharinalawall.bsky.social @sophiemainz.bsky.social Maria Nordbrandt & I show the answer is a resolute no
@jeppjournal.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/1350...

BJPolS abstract discussing the challenges and strategies of survey-based political messaging, focusing on direct mail campaigns and their impact on public attitude towards climate change.

#OpenAccess from August 2025 -

Not Getting the Message on Climate? Attention as a Key Barrier to Mass-Marketing Experimentally-Validated Messages - cup.org/3HgDIJ9

- Nicholas Carnes & Geoffrey L. Henderson

#ClimateChange

YouTube video by Better Food Foundation Changing our food system with Plant-Based Food by Default | Better Food Foundation

It's not Taylor Swift, but still, it's a terrific video.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTy4...

AI in Public Decision‐Making: A Philosophical and Practical Framework for Assessing and Weighing Harm and Benefit Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in public decision-making; yet existing governance tools often lack clear definitions of harm and benefit, practical methods for weighing competing v....

"AI in Public Decision-Making: A Philosophical and Practical Framework for Assessing and Weighing Harm and Benefit" by Karl de Fine Licht & Anna Folland presents a framework for utilizing AI in decision-making to evaluate harms & benefits, resolve conflicts, and foster trust. doi.org/10.1111%2Fpa...

"Institutional Factors as Antecedents of Energy Efficiency Policies at the Local Level" by @abouassi.bsky.social, Carley Weted, & David Schwegman finds that state-level policies and global city networks shape local energy efficiency adoption. doi.org/10.1111%2Fpa... @au-spa.bsky.social

Volume 44 Issue 2 | Policy and Society | Oxford Academic Policy and Society is a leading international open access journal that publishes peer-reviewed research on critical issues in policy theory and practice at the local, national and international…

Just Out and Open Access! Special Issue of Policy & Society on "Malignity in Policy Sciences" eds M. Jae Moon & Tim Legrand. Articles on Zombie Policies, India, Robodebt, Clientelism, Honesty, Emotions, Revolving Doors & Authoritarianism.

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Have you read the latest Evidence & Policy blog post?

'Recognising the expertise of people with #disability' by Shane Clifton

evidenceandpolicyblog.co.uk/2025/09/17/r...

@bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social @drcliffo.bsky.social

The Routledge Handbook of Policy Advisory Systems | Giliberto Capano, This handbook comprehensively reflects, presents and summarises both first and second wave scholarship into policy advisory systems (PAS). Bringing together

Now available on-line! Routledge Handbook of Policy Advisory Systems, eds. G. Capano, M. Howlett, J. Craft @gilibertocapano @howlettm @Jonathan_Craft

www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

Classification algorithms and social outcomes by Elizabeth Maggie Penn and John W. Patty is now available in Early View. @jwpatty.bluesky.social ajps.org/2025/09/17/c...

Policy advisory bodies during crises: a scoping review of the COVID-19 literature in Europe Background: The COVID-19 policy context was characterised by high levels of uncertainty, imperfect knowledge and the need for immediate action. Therefore, governments in Europe tended to rely on exper...

Policy advisory bodies during crises: a scoping #review of the COVID-19 literature in Europe' by Clemence Bouchat et al.

New from
@EvidencePolicy

#OA ⬇️
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If you work in message testing or persuasive communication, this may be the most importantly paper you will read this month, perhaps all year. From @carnes.bsky.social and Henderson in @bjpols.bsky.social

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Explore this PSJ article revealing how U.S. anti-trafficking laws spread unevenly across states as a result of how target populations are socially constructed and what each policy intends to achieve.

Read here: doi.org/10.1111/psj....

#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal