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Quantitative evaluation of global microbead policies: a PMC index approach towards microplastic pollution 全球微球政策的定量评价：微塑料污染的PMC指数方法

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2025-11-20 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-025-09597-2

Riya Kumbukattu Alex, Preetha Sadasivan, Thomas Maes, Suja Purushothaman Devipriya

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Tackling the soft non-technical challenges of the adoption of complexity science in policymaking 解决在政策制定中采用复杂性科学的软非技术挑战

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2025-11-15 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-025-09594-5

Darren Nel, Araz Taeihagh

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Laws as blades: A conceptual framework of legislative design 作为刀片的法律：立法设计的概念框架

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2025-11-11 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-025-09593-6

Steffen Hurka, Stefanie Rueß, Mike Cowburn, Constantin Kaplaner

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How issue salience and political leadership facilitate policy integration: The adoption of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive in the European Union 问题突出性和政治领导如何促进政策整合：欧盟建筑能效指令的采用

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2025-11-11 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-025-09592-7

Stephan Huber, Nihit Goyal, Thomas Hoppe, Tamara Metze

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Policy learning over the legislative process: insights from a statewide housing policy debate in Colorado 立法过程中的政策学习：来自科罗拉多州全州住房政策辩论的见解

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2025-10-30 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-025-09579-4

Emma Scheetz, Tanya Heikkila, Carrie Makarewicz, Robert Hobbins

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Designing duality: from procedural policy instrument to the statecraft of hybrid sovereignty 设计二元性：从程序性政策工具到混合主权的治国方略

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2025-10-24 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-025-09590-9

Jie Liu

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Can policy experiments achieve policy change? The politics of experimentation in Canadian cultural policy 政策实验能实现政策变革吗？加拿大文化政策中的实验政治

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2025-05-10 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-025-09575-8

Kate Mattocks

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Conjectures on a relational turn in policy studies 关于政策研究中关系转向的猜想

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2025-05-02 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-025-09574-9

Raul P. Lejano, Wing Shan Kan

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Towards a theory of policy bubbles 走向政策泡沫理论

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2025-04-13 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-025-09573-w

Moshe Maor

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The intersection of digital and social infrastructures in (a)spatial policymaking 数字和社会基础设施在空间政策制定中的交集

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2025-03-21 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-025-09569-6

Sarah Giest

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