Policy StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2023.2283189
Ana Cárcaba, Eduardo González, Rubén Arrondo
{"title":"Effects of the political configuration of local governments on subjective well-being","authors":"Ana Cárcaba, Eduardo González, Rubén Arrondo","doi":"10.1080/01442872.2023.2283189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2023.2283189","url":null,"abstract":"Determining what makes a person happy is an extremely complicated task. The objective of this article is to identify the effects of the composition and orientation of governance bodies in municipal...","PeriodicalId":47179,"journal":{"name":"Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138493836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Policy StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2023.2288237
Matilde Rosina
{"title":"Migration and soft power: the EU’s visa and refugee policy response to the war in Ukraine","authors":"Matilde Rosina","doi":"10.1080/01442872.2023.2288237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2023.2288237","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the European Union’s response to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine in the field of migration, arguing that EU visa and refugee policies encompassed a distinctive foreign policy...","PeriodicalId":47179,"journal":{"name":"Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138493835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Policy StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2023.2289576
Marie Jelínková, Michal Plaček, František Ochrana
{"title":"The arrival of Ukrainian refugees as an opportunity to advance migrant integration policy","authors":"Marie Jelínková, Michal Plaček, František Ochrana","doi":"10.1080/01442872.2023.2289576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2023.2289576","url":null,"abstract":"The Czech Republic has received the largest number of Ukrainian refugees per capita. An underdeveloped migrant integration policy and limited experience with large numbers of refugees hampered the ...","PeriodicalId":47179,"journal":{"name":"Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138493834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Policy StudiesPub Date : 2023-12-01DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2023.2287234
Sajjad Khan Niazi
{"title":"A cross-country analysis of the factors driving innovation performance in the Global South","authors":"Sajjad Khan Niazi","doi":"10.1080/01442872.2023.2287234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2023.2287234","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the effect of various enabling factors that influence the innovation performance of the global south countries by analyzing the Global Innovation Index-2020, as little was kno...","PeriodicalId":47179,"journal":{"name":"Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138542611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Policy StudiesPub Date : 2023-11-30DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2023.2288687
Balázs Égert, Christine de la Maisonneuve
{"title":"The impact of the war on human capital and productivity in Ukraine","authors":"Balázs Égert, Christine de la Maisonneuve","doi":"10.1080/01442872.2023.2288687","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2023.2288687","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the long-term macroeconomic impact of the war in Ukraine. Exploiting a new stock measure of human capital combining the quality and quantity of education and adult skills, thi...","PeriodicalId":47179,"journal":{"name":"Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138516504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Policy StudiesPub Date : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2023.2282569
Christopher Wilson, Marlen Heide, Jean-Patrick Villeneuve
{"title":"Mapping multi-stakeholder initiatives for public governance and transparency: a comparative assessment of trends and motivations","authors":"Christopher Wilson, Marlen Heide, Jean-Patrick Villeneuve","doi":"10.1080/01442872.2023.2282569","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2023.2282569","url":null,"abstract":"Global multi-stakeholder initiatives aiming to strengthen public governance and transparency (PGMSIs) in participating countries are increasingly prominent but little researched and undertheorized....","PeriodicalId":47179,"journal":{"name":"Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138516532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Policy StudiesPub Date : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2023.2279986
Li-Chen Sim
{"title":"The Arab Gulf states in the Asian energy market: is the Russia-Ukraine war a game changer?","authors":"Li-Chen Sim","doi":"10.1080/01442872.2023.2279986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2023.2279986","url":null,"abstract":"The Arab Gulf states and Russia have traditionally been major suppliers of hydrocarbons to the energy-poor countries of Asia. This article considers the extent to which engagement by the Arab Gulf ...","PeriodicalId":47179,"journal":{"name":"Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138542612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Policy StudiesPub Date : 2023-11-13DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2023.2271419
Stephen Ceccoli
{"title":"Reconceptualizing transfer pathways: policy transfer and armed UAV proliferation","authors":"Stephen Ceccoli","doi":"10.1080/01442872.2023.2271419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2023.2271419","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTWhile policy transfer remains a widely used approach for understanding public policy formation, several conceptual shortcomings limit the approach’s capacity for explanation. Notably, the concept of “transfer pathway” lacks a precise conceptual definition and empirical specification, limitations reflecting broader gaps in the policy transfer literature. This article contributes to the study of policy transfer by explicitly defining transfer pathway and demonstrating how a more expansive transfer pathway conceptualization can increase analytical granularity. Conceptual insights developed here are empirically applied to U.S. State Department announcements in late 2020 to sell armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), first to the United Arab Emirates and then Morocco. Such cases illustrate two novel transfer pathways, the tortuous pathway and the foreign policy pathway, offering a sketch of how governments transfer policies in the foreign and security policy domain. By employing process tracing, specific causal process observations associated with the arms transfer processes in each instance can be identified to better understand specific transfer outcomes.KEYWORDS: Policy transfertransfer pathwayUAVarms salesforeign policy Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Different “objects” subject to transfer include abstract objects (e.g., ideas, ideologies, discourses) as well as more concrete ones (e.g., policy designs and instruments, administrative regulations, governing structures).2 Citation figures as of September 2023.3 Newmark’s “diffusion continuum” identifies policy diffusion and policy convergence, respectively, as the broadest forms of denoting policy spread, followed by policy transfer. Per Newmark, policy transfer is a “more specific form of policy diffusion” since it accounts for when “conscious knowledge of policy is used in policy development elsewhere” (Citation2002, 171).4 Reviews by Newmark (Citation2002), Knill (Citation2005), Marsh and Sharman (Citation2009) and Stone (Citation2012) detail the complementary nature of diffusion and policy transfer.5 Along with policy mobilities, geographers and sociologists have also sought to build on policy transfer logic by developing notions of policy assemblages, mutations and circulation (McCann and Ward Citation2013; Baker and Walker Citation2019).6 This contrasts with closed compound words (which omit the space between two source words), hyphenated words and portmanteaus.7 As a policy process theory, MSA’s “most valuable attribute” remains “its ability to deal with timing – that is, the joining together of circumstances at a particular point in time” (Howlett, McConnell, and Perl Citation2016, 279–280).8 Kingdon (Citation2003) uses the concept of ‘spillover’ to convey how success in one policy area creates opportunities for success in other policy areas.9 Between the FMS ($55 billion) and DCS ($115 billion) programs, the U.S. government","PeriodicalId":47179,"journal":{"name":"Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136351695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Policy StudiesPub Date : 2023-10-30DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2023.2276116
Angela Pennisi di Floristella, Xuechen Chen
{"title":"Strategic narratives of Russia’s war in Ukraine: perspectives from China","authors":"Angela Pennisi di Floristella, Xuechen Chen","doi":"10.1080/01442872.2023.2276116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2023.2276116","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47179,"journal":{"name":"Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136069650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Policy StudiesPub Date : 2023-10-23DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2023.2271417
Daniel Béland, Martin Powell, Alex Waddan
{"title":"Assessing policy transfer from the United States to the British National Health Service","authors":"Daniel Béland, Martin Powell, Alex Waddan","doi":"10.1080/01442872.2023.2271417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2023.2271417","url":null,"abstract":"Much has been written about the claim that the British National Health Service (NHS) is becoming more like the US health care system, something a number of commentators view as a form of “Americanization”. Yet, that term is imprecise and unhelpful for rigorous analysis of what has, and has not, happened. This paper uses the lens of policy transfer to explore this issue, which provides a sharper insight into policy development. The paper examines the relevance of the Dolowitz and Marsh framework for the study of policy transfer from the US to the British NHS from 1979 onwards. In terms of the framework’s main research questions, the discussion of the potential US influence on the NHS case stresses the role of policy entrepreneurs in policy transfer. In terms of policy success, however, commentators suggest a mix of uninformed, incomplete, or inappropriate transfer. We conclude that Dolowitz and Marsh do provide a useful framework that asks relevant questions about policy transfer, which provides a more nuanced account of policy transfer from the US to the NHS than the crude term “Americanization”.","PeriodicalId":47179,"journal":{"name":"Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135405820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}