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“Countries you go, asylum adjudication you find.” Asylum appeals implementation arrangements, actors' discretion, and organizational practices "你去的国家，你找到的庇护裁决"。庇护上诉的执行安排、行动者的自由裁量权和组织实践

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Review of Policy Research Pub Date : 2024-03-23 DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12605

Cristina Dallara, Alice Lacchei

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At the controls: Politics and policy entrepreneurs in EU policy to decarbonize maritime transport 控制：欧盟海运脱碳政策中的政治和政策制定者

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Review of Policy Research Pub Date : 2024-03-22 DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12609

Fredrik von Malmborg

{"title":"At the controls: Politics and policy entrepreneurs in EU policy to decarbonize maritime transport","authors":"Fredrik von Malmborg","doi":"10.1111/ropr.12609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12609","url":null,"abstract":"The recent adoption of the FuelEU Maritime regulation, aiming to decarbonize maritime shipping, is part of the EU clean energy transition to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Based on autoethnographic method and qualitative text analysis, applying the multiple streams framework as a theoretical lens, this article explores and explains the politics and the policy process of FuelEU Maritime. A policy window opened with adoption of the Paris Agreement on climate change in 2015, the slow progress on climate policies in the International Maritime Organization, and the subsequent adoption of the European Green Deal in 2019 and the new EU climate law in 2021. Diverging beliefs and narratives of policy entrepreneurs, policy makers, and stakeholders on problems to be addressed and different policy options to be implemented are analyzed. There were mainly two policy entrepreneurs, advocating different problem descriptions and policy options. The European Commission proposed a technology‐neutral, goal‐based approach to reach moderate emission reductions by 2050, while a coalition led by green mobility NGO Transport & Environment advocated a technology‐specific multiplier and subquota for zero‐carbon fuels to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. The article explains the agency of Transport & Environment and allies in influencing the European Parliament and several member states in the Council of the EU to stand the grounds against incumbent shipping and fossil fuel industry that influenced the Commission to present a down‐watered policy proposal. Finally, the article exemplifies the complexity of the second‐generation energy transition required for decarbonization compared to the first‐generation transformation focusing on renewable electricity.","PeriodicalId":47408,"journal":{"name":"Review of Policy Research","volume":"67 4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140203485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Linking absorptive capacity and project performance in environmental uncertainty: A perspective on implementation arrangements 将环境不确定性中的吸收能力与项目绩效联系起来：从实施安排的角度看问题

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Review of Policy Research Pub Date : 2024-02-26 DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12591

Jahanzeb Waheed

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What shapes the formation of interstate benchmarking networks? 是什么影响了国家间基准网络的形成？

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Review of Policy Research Pub Date : 2024-02-24 DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12604

Shuai Cao, Hongtao Yi

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Policy convergence in authoritarian regimes: A comparative analysis of welfare state trajectories in post-Soviet countries 专制制度下的政策趋同：后苏联国家福利国家轨迹的比较分析

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Review of Policy Research Pub Date : 2024-02-12 DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12600

Angelo Vito Panaro

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Alternative policy narratives of the future of climate change: Analyzing Finland's energy and climate strategy and news reports 气候变化未来的另类政策叙事：分析芬兰的能源与气候战略和新闻报道

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Review of Policy Research Pub Date : 2024-02-09 DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12602

Marjukka Parkkinen, Suvi Vikström

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Responding to crises in authoritarian environments: Russian think tanks between policy evaluation and state endorsement 在专制环境中应对危机：政策评估与国家认可之间的俄罗斯智库

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Review of Policy Research Pub Date : 2024-02-05 DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12601

Vera Axyonova

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Avoiding the blame game: NGOs and government narrative strategies in landscape fire policy debates in Russia 避免指责游戏：俄罗斯景观火灾政策辩论中的非政府组织和政府叙事策略

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Review of Policy Research Pub Date : 2024-02-02 DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12598

Tatiana Chalaya, Artem Uldanov

{"title":"Avoiding the blame game: NGOs and government narrative strategies in landscape fire policy debates in Russia","authors":"Tatiana Chalaya, Artem Uldanov","doi":"10.1111/ropr.12598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12598","url":null,"abstract":"To what extent can nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) communicate policy problems in an authoritarian country, and how limited are they in narrating policy alternatives? This article seeks to develop studies on the application of the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) in Russia, extend our knowledge about the use of narrative strategies in centralized and authoritarian policy processes, highlight certain methodological peculiarities related to the devil–angel shift calculation, and test causal mechanism hypotheses that have not previously been applied to the analysis of policy debates in Russia. The study examines hypotheses based on the narrative strategies (devil–angel shift, scope of conflict, and causal mechanisms) that were used by government and NGO coalitions in the debate about “landscape fire” policies in Russia over the period 2019–2021. The results show that the differences between the coalition's narrative strategies were not as significant as had been shown previously. The government coalition uses a strong angel shift in its narratives and avoids conflict expansion. The NGO coalition demonstrates a moderate angel shift, but with the use of conflict expansion in parts of the narratives. Both coalitions use the intentional or inadvertent causal mechanism blaming the citizens for starting the fires, but differ in employing causal mechanisms when discussing the large scale of landscape fires.","PeriodicalId":47408,"journal":{"name":"Review of Policy Research","volume":"95 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139770670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 process theories in autocracies: Key observations, explanatory power, and research priorities 专制国家的政策过程理论：主要观点、解释力和研究重点

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Review of Policy Research Pub Date : 2024-01-16 DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12596

Annemieke van den Dool, Caroline Schlaufer

{"title":"Policy process theories in autocracies: Key observations, explanatory power, and research priorities","authors":"Annemieke van den Dool, Caroline Schlaufer","doi":"10.1111/ropr.12596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12596","url":null,"abstract":"The policy process frameworks and theories that are currently considered mainstream were originally developed in the United States, before traveling to other countries. Despite their roots in democratic values, these frameworks and theories are increasingly applied to autocracies. Given important differences between democracies and autocracies, this raises questions about the desirability, limitations, and future directions of this development. In response, this article synthesizes findings from studies that apply existing policy process frameworks and theories to autocracies with the aim of assessing the extent to which the theories are, can, and should be used to explain key aspects of the policy process in autocracies. Based on qualitative content analysis of 146 English-language peer-reviewed journal articles that apply the Advocacy Coalition Framework, the Multiple Streams Framework, the Narrative Policy Framework, and the Punctuated Equilibrium Theory to 39 autocracies, we show that these theories help identify influential institutions, actors, networks, ideas, beliefs, and events. The analysis reveals important differences in policy processes between autocracies and democracies. Future research ought to bring existing literature on authoritarianism and authoritarian politics into policy process research to test existing and new hypotheses.","PeriodicalId":47408,"journal":{"name":"Review of Policy Research","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139556189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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Cliquepolitik: Multimodal online discourse coalitions on CRISPR‐Cas genome editing technology Cliquepolitik：关于 CRISPR-Cas 基因组编辑技术的多模式在线话语联盟

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Review of Policy Research Pub Date : 2024-01-08 DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12590

Eduardo Rojas‐Padilla, Tamara Metze, A. Dewulf

{"title":"Cliquepolitik: Multimodal online discourse coalitions on CRISPR‐Cas genome editing technology","authors":"Eduardo Rojas‐Padilla, Tamara Metze, A. Dewulf","doi":"10.1111/ropr.12590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12590","url":null,"abstract":"The influence of visualizations on decision‐making about controversial policy issues is increasingly recognized in the political and policy sciences. In this paper, we explore how combinations of visuals and text on Twitter (now X) lead to the formation of networks of actors sharing similar textual and visual framings about a policy issue in an online setting, which we conceptualize as Multimodal Online Discourse Coalitions (MODCs). MODCs struggle over the meaning of contested policy issues. We examine multiple MODCs in 2018 in the context of the regulatory decisions in that year about CRISPR‐Cas gene editing technology in the USA, Mercosur, and the EU. Based on an SNA and a qualitative visual and discursive analysis in three languages on Twitter in 2018 (covering in total ~ 427 k Tweets), we show that MODCs in English and Spanish focused on technocratic aspects of CRISPR‐Cas, resembling the regulatory decisions in the USA and Mercosur. In Europe, next to technocratic MODCs, an MODC in French formed around ethical/normative framings of the consequences of CRISPR‐Cas applications, using visuals of embryos to represent “GMO babies.” These visuals were emotional triggers in their framing of CRISPR technology. The ethical/normative framing reflected the argument brought to the CJEU by a group of French actors involved in the court case which categorized CRISPR‐Cas as a GMO technology in the EU. These results suggest that the French MODC and their visualization was of influence on the EU decision‐making process; however, more research is needed to verify the role of this online debate in the decision‐making process.","PeriodicalId":47408,"journal":{"name":"Review of Policy Research","volume":"32 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139445784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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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