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Malignity in decentralization of natural resource governance in India 印度自然资源管理权力下放的弊端

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2025-08-18 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puaf022

Satyajit Singh

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Change is inevitable, quality is optional, and context matters: dynamics influencing the development of an optimal policy advisory system 变化是不可避免的，质量是可选的，环境是重要的：影响最优政策咨询系统发展的动力

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2025-08-12 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puaf017

Bernadette Connaughton

{"title":"Change is inevitable, quality is optional, and context matters: dynamics influencing the development of an optimal policy advisory system","authors":"Bernadette Connaughton","doi":"10.1093/polsoc/puaf017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puaf017","url":null,"abstract":"Developments in the policy advisory systems (PAS) literature demonstrate how the traditional models designating key roles for internal public service actors have given way to include a greater diversity of external nongovernmental actors in advice provision. This is reflected in how sustained politicization and externalization trends impact PAS organization and actors’ influence, resulting in a more complex national PAS architecture and functioning. This pronounced hybridity of PAS, both in structure and logic, presents challenges for ensuring relevant and quality advisory content and managing its supply and dissemination effectively. In this article, Craft and Howlett’s model on features of policy advice content and the types of actors supplying it is used to observe the implications of PAS adaptation and change dynamics across different political-administrative contexts. The presence of different types of advice under the conditions of short-term/reactive (e.g., purely political or crisis advice) and long-term/anticipatory (e.g., protocol and routine steering, evidence-based advice) is a useful rubric for surveying how good governance standards and openness have been applied in developing quality policy advice content in both Westminster and non-Westminster contexts.","PeriodicalId":47383,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Society","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144898411","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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An instrument constituency of data science—the case of Data for Good initiatives in the UK nonprofit sector 数据科学的工具选区——英国非营利部门的数据为善倡议案例

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2025-07-31 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puaf019

Ville Aula

{"title":"An instrument constituency of data science—the case of Data for Good initiatives in the UK nonprofit sector","authors":"Ville Aula","doi":"10.1093/polsoc/puaf019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puaf019","url":null,"abstract":"Data science is a new link in the long chain of quantitative measurement in public policy. The article analyses the promotion of data science as a tool of public policy by operationalizing the instrument constituency framework. The article expands research on instrument constituencies to two new areas: measurement instruments and the nonprofit sector. The empirical analysis focuses on “Data for Good” initiatives in the UK nonprofit sector and is based on 37 interviews with nonprofit data professionals participating I the initiatives. The analysis focuses on actors, instruments, and promises. The findings show that the innovative potential of digital data and data science is central to the initiatives, but the actual practices promoted by the participants are much more varied. The analysis shows blurred boundaries between different promotional coalitions and underscores the collaboration and competition between initiatives. The article confirms that the instrument constituency framework is applicable to the analysis of measurement techniques in the nonprofit sector. It invites further empirical and conceptual work on the unique elements of instrument constituencies that focus on promoting measurement techniques.","PeriodicalId":47383,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Society","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144766126","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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Policy advisory system actors or policy entrepreneurs? An analysis of policy advice quality in Kenyan anticorruption policymaking 政策咨询系统的参与者还是政策企业家？肯尼亚反腐败决策中的政策建议质量分析

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puaf004

Justa Mwangi

{"title":"Policy advisory system actors or policy entrepreneurs? An analysis of policy advice quality in Kenyan anticorruption policymaking","authors":"Justa Mwangi","doi":"10.1093/polsoc/puaf004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puaf004","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores PAS actors and policy advice quality dynamics within anticorruption policymaking processes in Kiambu and Nairobi City counties, which are two devolved systems of government in Kenya. It is based on empirical research that sought to determine the level of policy advice quality provided by three critical PAS actors—the state, business, and civil society. These actors were of particular interest as they were mentioned in corruption scandals, linked to sycophancy as they sought to curry favor, and exhibited signs of disengagement, due to frustrations within the policymaking process. The study was framed within the multiple streams framework (MSF) and interrogated policy advice quality through the SERVQUAL model of reliability, assurance, tangibles, empathy, and responsiveness. The analytical strengths of MSF and SERVQUAL were considered suitable in Kenya’s context where corruption is systemic, in an effort to overcome the limitations of previous approaches that have looked at corruption as a principal-agent problem. Two focus group discussions with key stakeholders were held in each county. Sixty-three respondents from 10 strategic functions, 12 members of the public, and 24 suppliers from each county were interviewed. The results demonstrate the analytical capacity of MSF and SERVQUAL, and provide a theoretical framework within which to ground third-generation policy advice research. The paper addresses the main research problem of inadequate data from the global south, and the lack of measurements for policy advice quality. It also contributes conceptual tools that deepen our understanding by presenting MSF and SERVQUAL as useful models for consideration.","PeriodicalId":47383,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Society","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144066106","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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Policy advisory system quality under multilevel governance: the German COVID-19 experience 多层次治理下的政策咨询体系质量：德国新冠肺炎经验

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2025-05-13 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puaf005

Johanna Hornung, Philipp Trein

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How can governments respond to policy bubbles driven by dysfunctional emotions? 政府如何应对由不正常情绪驱动的政策泡沫？

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puaf008

Moshe Maor

{"title":"How can governments respond to policy bubbles driven by dysfunctional emotions?","authors":"Moshe Maor","doi":"10.1093/polsoc/puaf008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puaf008","url":null,"abstract":"People sometimes experience intense emotions with maladaptive behavioral consequences (i.e., dysfunctional emotions) that impair their judgment regarding policy problems, policy tools, and/or target populations, leading to the emergence of policy bubbles (i.e., sustained policy over-investment). In this article, I elaborate on three strategies that governments can implement when faced with policy bubbles driven by such emotions: the wait-and-see approach, the emotional containment approach, and the bubble-pricking approach. Based on studies of policy bubbles as well as financial and asset bubbles, I elaborate on the conditions under which each of these policy options may be the appropriate path to follow when encountering such policy bubbles. I conclude that the case for a wait-and-see approach is strong, among other instances, when such bubbles cannot be detected with a reasonable level of confidence while they are still in the initial overinvestment phase; the case for emotional containment is strong when policymakers are interested in preventing such bubbles from getting out of hand, yet they are politically constrained to better calibrate the level of policy investment to the severity of the policy problem; and the case for the bubble-pricking approach is strong when (i) the growth of policy bubbles driven by dysfunctional emotions causes significant harm and (ii) governments do not have at their disposal the necessary tools to keep the harmful effects of such policy bubbles and their burst at a manageable level. An in-depth understanding of context is critical in determining the best course of action.","PeriodicalId":47383,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Society","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143940200","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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The divide in the EU green taxonomy: how conflict impacts the quality of policy advisory systems 欧盟绿色分类法的分歧：冲突如何影响政策咨询系统的质量

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2025-04-17 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puaf007

Edoardo Esposto, Tiziana Nupieri

{"title":"The divide in the EU green taxonomy: how conflict impacts the quality of policy advisory systems","authors":"Edoardo Esposto, Tiziana Nupieri","doi":"10.1093/polsoc/puaf007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puaf007","url":null,"abstract":"The second wave of research on Policy Advisory Systems (PAS) dynamics has induced scholars to rethink the received knowledge about the insider–outsider and technical–political divides in policy advice, leading to more nuanced descriptions of PAS configurations. The long-term structural change of PAS has been the focus of this research agenda. In contrast, a research gap exists in analyzing the role of disagreement and conflict in shaping the configuration of advisory systems and their interactions with policymakers. We analyze a case of conflict in the policy advisory system supporting the European Commission in defining the EU Green Taxonomy, i.e., the classification of economic activities that underpins the new EU regulation of public and private sustainable investments. The dynamic effect of conflict is particularly evident in the case of the EU Green Taxonomy, where opposing values and interests have shaped the advisory process, raising questions about how policymakers navigate and utilize contested advice. Our findings contribute to understanding the relationship between pluralistic and conflictual advisory systems and government management of PAS.","PeriodicalId":47383,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Society","volume":"74 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143841242","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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Environmental impact assessments as a mechanism of regulatory intermediation: the case of Israeli wind energy 环境影响评价作为管制中介机制：以色列风能案例

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puaf006

Avri Eitan, David Levi-Faur

{"title":"Environmental impact assessments as a mechanism of regulatory intermediation: the case of Israeli wind energy","authors":"Avri Eitan, David Levi-Faur","doi":"10.1093/polsoc/puaf006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puaf006","url":null,"abstract":"The environmental impacts of infrastructure projects are widely assessed through a procedure known as environmental impact assessments (EIAs). In many regulatory systems, EIAs are carried out by third-party intermediaries. However, their roles and effectiveness within public policy and regulatory governance remain understudied. This study addresses this gap by examining 24 wind energy projects deliberated in Israeli planning committees between 2003 and 2024. Specifically, we ask: (1) What intermediary roles do EIAs and those responsible for their implementation play? (2) What are the strengths and weaknesses of EIAs as an intermediation mechanism? (3) How do these strengths and weaknesses shape their effectiveness? Our analysis identifies five key intermediary roles: two formal roles, which are legally defined—providing advisory services and facilitating enforcement and compliance—and three informal roles, which extend beyond strict regulatory mandates—interpretation, dialogue facilitation, and advocacy. The formal roles ensure compliance with regulatory guidelines and advance environmental expertise, thereby meeting regulatory requirements and contributing to high procedural effectiveness. However, challenges persist, particularly regarding informal roles, which are often influenced by intermediaries’ alignment with developers’ interests. These challenges contribute to relatively low substantive effectiveness, as planning committees frequently find EIAs insufficient for informed decision-making, leading them to seek external consultants for validation. The gap between EIAs meeting regulatory requirements and planning committees’ inability to fully rely on them highlights weaknesses in EIA governance as a mechanism of regulatory intermediation. We argue that formalizing informal intermediary roles with clearer guidelines could improve EIA effectiveness, enhance objectivity, and strengthen decision-making in the EIA framework.","PeriodicalId":47383,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Society","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143824876","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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Deep core advocacy coalitions 深层核心倡导联盟

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puaf003

Christopher M Weible, Anna M Crawford, Allegra H Fullerton, Kayla M Gabehart, Katherine E Imhoff, Giulia Mariani

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Governance of Generative AI 生成式人工智能的治理

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Policy and Society Pub Date : 2025-02-03 DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puaf001

Araz Taeihagh

{"title":"Governance of Generative AI","authors":"Araz Taeihagh","doi":"10.1093/polsoc/puaf001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puaf001","url":null,"abstract":"The rapid and widespread diffusion of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has unlocked new capabilities and changed how content and services are created, shared, and consumed. This special issue builds on the 2021 Policy and Society special issue on the governance of AI by focusing on the legal, organizational, political, regulatory, and social challenges of governing generative AI. This introductory article lays the foundation for understanding generative AI and underscores its key risks, including hallucination, jailbreaking, data training and validation issues, sensitive information leakage, opacity, control challenges, and design and implementation risks. It then examines the governance challenges of generative AI, such as data governance, intellectual property concerns, bias amplification, privacy violations, misinformation, fraud, societal impacts, power imbalances, limited public engagement, public sector challenges, and the need for international cooperation. The article then highlights a comprehensive framework to govern generative AI, emphasizing the need for adaptive, participatory, and proactive approaches. The articles in this special issue stress the urgency of developing innovative and inclusive approaches to ensure that generative AI development is aligned with societal values. They explore the need for adaptation of data governance and intellectual property laws, propose a complexity-based approach for responsible governance, analyze how the dominance of Big Tech is exacerbated by generative AI developments and how this affects policy processes, highlight the shortcomings of technocratic governance and the need for broader stakeholder participation, propose new regulatory frameworks informed by AI safety research and learning from other industries, and highlight the societal impacts of generative AI.","PeriodicalId":47383,"journal":{"name":"Policy and Society","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":9.3,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143084081","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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