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{"title":"The landscape of trust diversity in wildfire collaboratives and impacts on environmental, social and process outcomes","authors":"Jaishri Srinivasan,Jacopo Baggio,Candice Carr Kelman,Kelly Jones,Melinda Morgan,Michael Schoon","doi":"10.1007/s11077-026-09623-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-026-09623-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51433,"journal":{"name":"Policy Sciences","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148899433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Diversity as value: cultural distance and IO-led diffusion in the UNESCO creative cities network","authors":"Xuefei Li, Biyun Zhu","doi":"10.1007/s11077-026-09624-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-026-09624-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51433,"journal":{"name":"Policy Sciences","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148693383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Administrative coordination, integrated plans, and policy capacities for local climate policy implementation","authors":"Francesco Sarti","doi":"10.1007/s11077-026-09621-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-026-09621-z","url":null,"abstract":"The literature has gone to great lengths to describe how administrative coordination can support climate policy implementation. Yet few studies have adopted both a configurational and an actor-oriented perspective to understand which combination of policy capacities and policy design features bureaucrats perceive as necessary or sufficient to effectively engage in administrative coordination for climate policy implementation. Analyzing eighteen local departments implementing climate plans in four cities (Bologna, Lausanne, Padua, Zurich) and across various policy sectors, a configurational approach based on mixed methods allows testing two hypotheses: the first (H1) is that a combination of multiple, high-level organizational capabilities is sufficient for effective coordination. The second one (H2) is that both integrated planning and high organizational policy capacities together are sufficient for effective coordination. Finding evidence for H2, this paper contributes to the ongoing debate regarding the integrative policy capacities needed to foster the ecological transition at the local level. It makes a distinctive contribution by systematically clarifying how the <jats:italic>interplay</jats:italic> between policy capacities and policy design features shapes administrative coordination outputs.","PeriodicalId":51433,"journal":{"name":"Policy Sciences","volume":"360 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148693386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Agenda exit and policy closure: defensive governability‑making and housing tax reform in Australia (2014–2021)","authors":"John S. F. Wright","doi":"10.1007/s11077-026-09619-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-026-09619-7","url":null,"abstract":"Why do some policy agendas disappear not merely as a matter of declining attention, but as a consequence of becoming politically unsayable? Scholarship on policy processes has devoted extensive attention to agenda‑setting and non‑decision, but far less to the mechanisms through which once‑contested policy options are actively withdrawn from the space of legitimate political action. This article develops the concept of agenda exit to explain how policy contestation is stabilised when proposals become non‑viable to articulate and are subsequently constrained against return. Drawing on a process‑tracing analysis of housing tax reform in Australia from 2014 to 2021, the article shows how a coordinated field of property‑sector actors transformed electoral defeat into a durable agenda constraint through practices of reputational risk construction, substitution, and boundary‑policing. The core contribution is to theorise agenda exit as a condition of structured absence: an interregnum in which a policy remains technically conceivable but is rendered politically unsponsor‑able within ordinary arenas of contestation. This clarifies a distinct mode of policy stability, in which governability is secured not through consensus or resolution, but through the defensive narrowing of political possibility. By specifying how policy options become absent without formal decision, the analysis extends existing work on agenda control, blame avoidance, and policy continuity, and highlights the importance of studying the conditions under which policies can no longer be credibly proposed.","PeriodicalId":51433,"journal":{"name":"Policy Sciences","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148587222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"AI “nationality”, policy types, and public support for embedding AI in policymaking","authors":"Shouzhi Xia","doi":"10.1007/s11077-026-09618-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-026-09618-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51433,"journal":{"name":"Policy Sciences","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148587216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A framework for fragility: guiding measurement for policy","authors":"Joan Margalef, Laura Mayoral, Hannes Mueller, Christopher Rauh","doi":"10.1007/s11077-026-09617-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-026-09617-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51433,"journal":{"name":"Policy Sciences","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148587231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The emotional politics of problem definition: Israel’s judicial reform in a polarized public sphere","authors":"Michal Neubauer-Shani, Yael Ram, Moshe Maor","doi":"10.1007/s11077-026-09613-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-026-09613-z","url":null,"abstract":"To date, scholars have not devoted sufficient attention within the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) to the emotional strategies employed by policy entrepreneurs—a gap this study addresses through an analysis of Israel’s judicial reform (January 2023‒December 2024). Using qualitative content analysis, AI-assisted thematic analysis, and a public survey, we examine statements made by two figures who spearheaded the reform: the minister of justice and the chair of the Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee. Findings show that, contrary to our hypothesis, nearly all emotional appeals made by these figures triggered negative emotions among respondents, with no variation across political affiliations and no difference between reactions to the emotional content and to the political figures themselves. However, as expected, right-leaning individuals reported lower levels of negativity than those who identify with the center or the left. These findings suggest that fueling negative emotions served as the entrepreneurs’ primary mobilization strategy. In theoretical terms, the study contributes to the MSF by illustrating how emotional appeals may function as an endogenous mechanism within the problem stream. The findings are consistent with an interpretation that associates emotional framing with early stabilization of public perceptions of reform, potentially limiting subsequent opportunities for problem reframing as the policy process unfolds, and with observable agenda effects, including mass mobilization and a temporary government suspension of the reform. Moreover, initial emotional responses to the political figures are also consistent with an anchoring dynamic that may limit subsequent opportunities for reframing. By linking entrepreneurial emotional strategies to patterns of public emotional responses, the article highlights how emotions can accelerate problem recognition and reinforce contested interpretations, thereby influencing agenda dynamics at the stage of problem definition, prior to the coupling of problems, policies, and politics within the MSF conceptualization.","PeriodicalId":51433,"journal":{"name":"Policy Sciences","volume":"61 1","pages":"245-273"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148290222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does a “Taylor Swift Effect” encourage pro-social behavior? Celebrity endorsement and individual willingness to purchase carbon offsets","authors":"Jana Foxe, Nives Dolšak, Aseem Prakash","doi":"10.1007/s11077-026-09615-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-026-09615-x","url":null,"abstract":"Does celebrity endorsement encourage individuals to incur private costs to provide public goods? We examine this issue in the context of climate policy, specifically aviation emissions. We ask: Does the information that a celebrity purchases carbon credits to offset their air travel emissions encourage individuals to do the same? We focus on endorsement from Taylor Swift, one of the most famous pop stars. To differentiate a “Swift Effect” from a generic celebrity effect, we examine the hypothetical purchase of offsets by two additional celebrities who share similar demographic characteristics (White women), Caitlin Clark and Angelina Jolie. We work with a pre-registered vignette-based online survey experiment (N = 1309; N = 609 attentive respondents) conducted on a representative panel of U.S. respondents. We find that, compared to the reference group (no celebrity endorsement), endorsement of any of the three celebrities does not change respondents’ willingness to purchase carbon offsets. Overall, respondents inclined toward environmental action (e.g., concerned about climate change, not frequently flying for work/leisure), and non-White respondents, were more willing to pledge to purchase offsets. Blue-collar respondents were less willing, whereas other socio-demographic attributes, such as gender, did not have a significant effect on this willingness to purchase offsets.","PeriodicalId":51433,"journal":{"name":"Policy Sciences","volume":"20 1","pages":"439-462"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148290221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The policy cycle’s missing distinction: why strategy is not delivery","authors":"Ruben Junca","doi":"10.1007/s11077-026-09612-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-026-09612-0","url":null,"abstract":"Public governance has become increasingly saturated with plans, targets, indicators, delivery units, and performance routines, yet persistent policy underperformance continues to be diagnosed mainly as an implementation problem. This comment argues that part of that pattern reflects not just empirical difficulty, but an analytical habit built into how the policy cycle is commonly used. While the cycle remains valuable as a heuristic, it under-specifies a distinction between two different but interdependent governing processes: the political authorization of collective purpose and the administrative-operational organization of delivery. When that distinction is blurred, unresolved ambiguity in strategy is absorbed into plans, targets, and performance frameworks, which are then treated as if they expressed already-settled commitments. Tensions originating upstream are thus displaced downstream and recoded as problems of coordination, implementation, and managerial weakness. The result is a recurring misdiagnosis: what appears as delivery failure may begin in weakly stabilized political direction. Distinguishing between purpose design and purpose delivery helps clarify why accountability so often settles on delivery systems, why performance regimes may optimize action without reopening purpose, and why tools such as PDCA are more appropriate for delivery than for the political authorization of direction. The policy cycle need not be abandoned, but used with greater analytical precision.","PeriodicalId":51433,"journal":{"name":"Policy Sciences","volume":"249 1","pages":"463-470"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148290224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Framing with facts: How frames shape evidence use in Switzerland’s pesticide policy discourse","authors":"Ueli Reber, Karin Ingold","doi":"10.1007/s11077-026-09611-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-026-09611-1","url":null,"abstract":"How evidence is used to frame policy issues plays a crucial role in shaping which knowledge is deemed relevant to policymaking. Drawing on argumentation theory and framing literature, we argue that evidence functions as a tool that speakers use strategically and systematically to support specific elements of frames (regarding causes, consequences, or solutions), thereby determining which bodies of knowledge are mobilised in political discourse. Using quantitative content analysis of media, trade, and parliamentary discourse in Switzerland from 2013 to 2022, we identified four frames relating to the issue of pesticide risk reduction: health, environment, economy, and practice. We found that across all frames, the most emphasised frame element is also the one most likely to be supported by evidence. Overall, consequence claims were more likely to be backed by evidence than claims about causes or policy solutions. These patterns reveal which bodies of knowledge are mobilised in political discourse in support of certain policy stances and where the presented frames lack supporting evidence. Recognising the role of framing in evidence use can thus support more transparent and reflexive policymaking by helping researchers and policymakers to identify unavailable or overlooked knowledge and addressing gaps in both research and policymaking.","PeriodicalId":51433,"journal":{"name":"Policy Sciences","volume":"73 1","pages":"275-297"},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2026-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148290324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}