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Steering the future: expert knowledge and stakeholder voices in autonomous vehicle policy reports 引导未来：自动驾驶汽车政策报告中的专家知识和利益相关者的声音

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2025-01-11 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puae041

Diana Hicks, Gordon Kingsley, Kimberley R Isett

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Collaborative governance in politicized times: the battle over asylum policies in Italian cities 政治化时代的合作治理：意大利城市庇护政策之争

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2025-01-07 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puae038

Raffaele Bazurli, Francesca Campomori

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A matter of culture? Conceptualizing and investigating “Evidence Cultures” within research on evidence-informed policymaking 文化问题？在循证决策研究中，对“证据文化”进行概念化和调查

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2024-11-25 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puae036

Justyna Bandola-Gill, Niklas A Andersen, Rhodri Leng, Valérie Pattyn, Katherine E Smith

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Exploring cultures of evidence in energy policymaking in the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands 探索英国、德国和荷兰能源决策中的证据文化

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2024-11-19 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puae035

Will McDowall

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Variation in evidence use across policy sectors: the case of Brazil 各政策部门在使用证据方面的差异：巴西的案例

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2024-11-14 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puae031

Kidjie Saguin, João V Guedes-Neto, Pedro Lucas Moura Palotti, Natália Massaco Koga, Flavio Lyrio Carneiro

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A world of evidence: the global spread and silent politics of evidence cultures 证据的世界：证据文化的全球传播与无声政治

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2024-10-18 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puae029

Holger Straßheim

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Understanding policy integration through an integrative capacity framework 通过综合能力框架理解政策整合

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2024-08-10 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puae027

Joanna Vince, Maree Fudge, Liam Fullbrook, Marcus Haward

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Words not deeds: the weak culture of evidence in the Canadian policy style 言行不一：加拿大政策风格中薄弱的实证文化

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2024-08-09 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puae026

Andrea Migone, Michael Howlett, Alexander Howlett

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Understanding street-level managers’ compliance: a comparative study of policy implementation in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Israel 了解街道管理人员的遵纪守法情况：瑞士、意大利、德国和以色列政策执行情况比较研究

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puae024

Jörn Ege, Anat Gofen, Susanne Hadorn, Inbal Hakman, Anna Malandrino, Leroy Ramseier, Fritz Sager

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Meeting expectations? Response of policy innovation labs to sustainable development goals 满足期望？政策创新实验室对可持续发展目标的回应

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2024-07-02 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puae023

Esti Hoss-Golan, Anat Gofen, Adam M Wellstead

{"title":"Meeting expectations? Response of policy innovation labs to sustainable development goals","authors":"Esti Hoss-Golan, Anat Gofen, Adam M Wellstead","doi":"10.1093/polsoc/puae023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puae023","url":null,"abstract":"Introduced by the United Nations, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim at facilitating inclusive sustainable development. Responsiveness to SDGs is considered a key to addressing pressing development problems. The current literature focuses on the responsiveness of varied public organizations to SDGs, whereas SDGs’ responsiveness of policy innovation labs (PILs) is understudied. Aiming to address both persistent and emerging social and environmental problems, PILs are aligned with SDGs. On the other hand, PILs seek innovative ways to generate policy solutions in collaboration with citizens through experimental methods and thus are more committed to the local public rather than international organizations. This paper investigates to what extent and in what way PILs respond to SDGs during policy formulation processes, both implicitly and explicitly. Data draws on a database the authors developed, identifying 211 European PILs. Thematic coding of PILs’ websites reveals that 62.1% of the PILs implicitly promote at least one SDG. Additionally, sustainable cities and communities (SDG11) and good health and well-being (SDG3) are the two SDGs with the highest implicit-response rates, respectively. We apply grounded theory analysis from semi-structured interviews with senior PIL employees of 31 PILs to gauge their explicit views of SDGs. This inductive approach reveals three dimensions to SDGs: levels of responsiveness, different practices, and considerations that guide PILs on whether to comply with SDGs. A better understanding of PILs’ response to SDGs provides a more nuanced portrayal of PILs as organizations aiming to craft innovative policy solutions that align with international frameworks.","PeriodicalId":47383,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Society","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141495674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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