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How budgets change: punctuations, trends, and super-trends 预算是如何变化的：时点、趋势和超级趋势

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2024-07-23 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09542-9

Ehud Segal, Frank R. Baumgartner

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Consultancy firms’ roles in policy diffusion: a systematic review from the environmental governance field 咨询公司在政策传播中的作用：环境治理领域的系统审查

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2024-07-23 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09540-x

Alejandra Burchard-Levine, Dave Huitema, Nicolas W. Jager, Iris Bijlsma

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Exploring the eternal struggle: The Narrative Policy Framework and status quo versus policy change 探索永恒的斗争：叙事政策框架和现状与政策变革

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2024-07-18 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09537-6

Johanna Kuenzler, Colette Vogeler, Anne-Marie Parth, Titian Gohl

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Health system reform and path-dependency: how ideas constrained change in South Africa’s national health insurance policy process 医疗系统改革与路径依赖：观念如何制约南非国家医疗保险政策进程的变革

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2024-07-18 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09541-w

Eleanor Beth Whyle, Jill Olivier

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Keep me posted, but don’t stress me out: how the positive effect of social networking services on civil servants’ information use and political capacities can be attenuated by social media stress 随时向我通报情况，但不要给我压力：社交网络服务对公务员信息使用和政治能力的积极影响如何因社交媒体压力而减弱

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2024-07-18 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09539-4

Camilla Wanckel

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COVID-19 memorable messages as internal narratives: stability and change over time COVID-19 作为内部叙述的难忘信息：稳定性和随时间的变化

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2024-07-08 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09538-5

Rob A. DeLeo, Elizabeth A. Shanahan, Kristin Taylor, Nathan Jeschke, Deserai Crow, Thomas A. Birkland, Elizabeth Koebele, Danielle Blanch-Hartigan, Courtney Welton-Mitchell, Sandhya Sangappa, Elizabeth Albright, Honey Minkowitz

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Approaches to policy framing: deepening a conversation across perspectives 制定政策的方法：深化跨观点对话

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2024-06-16 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09534-9

Jennifer Dodge, Tamara Metze

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The pursuit of welfare efficiency: when institutional structures turn ‘less’ into ‘more’ 追求福利效率：当制度结构变 "少 "为 "多

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09535-8

Christina Steinbacher

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Climate fatalism, partisan cues, and support for the Inflation Reduction Act 气候宿命论、党派线索以及对《通货膨胀削减法》的支持

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2024-05-10 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09532-x

Melissa K. Merry, Rodger A. Payne

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The soft underbelly of complexity science adoption in policymaking: towards addressing frequently overlooked non-technical challenges 决策中采用复杂性科学的软肋：努力应对经常被忽视的非技术挑战

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2024-04-29 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09531-y

Darren Nel, Araz Taeihagh

{"title":"The soft underbelly of complexity science adoption in policymaking: towards addressing frequently overlooked non-technical challenges","authors":"Darren Nel, Araz Taeihagh","doi":"10.1007/s11077-024-09531-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-024-09531-y","url":null,"abstract":"The deepening integration of social-technical systems creates immensely complex environments, creating increasingly uncertain and unpredictable circumstances. Given this context, policymakers have been encouraged to draw on complexity science-informed approaches in policymaking to help grapple with and manage the mounting complexity of the world. For nearly eighty years, complexity-informed approaches have been promising to change how our complex systems are understood and managed, ultimately assisting in better policymaking. Despite the potential of complexity science, in practice, its use often remains limited to a few specialised domains and has not become part and parcel of the mainstream policy debate. To understand why this might be the case, we question why complexity science remains nascent and not integrated into the core of policymaking. Specifically, we ask what the non-technical challenges and barriers are preventing the adoption of complexity science into policymaking. To address this question, we conducted an extensive literature review. We collected the scattered fragments of text that discussed the non-technical challenges related to the use of complexity science in policymaking and stitched these fragments into a structured framework by synthesising our findings. Our framework consists of three thematic groupings of the non-technical challenges: (a) management, cost, and adoption challenges; (b) limited trust, communication, and acceptance; and (c) ethical barriers. For each broad challenge identified, we propose a mitigation strategy to facilitate the adoption of complexity science into policymaking. We conclude with a call for action to integrate complexity science into policymaking further.","PeriodicalId":51433,"journal":{"name":"Policy Sciences","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140808513","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}

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