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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

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Wildfire risk and insurance: research directions for policy scientists 野火风险与保险：政策科学家的研究方向

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2024-04-29 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09528-7

Matthew R. Auer

{"title":"Wildfire risk and insurance: research directions for policy scientists","authors":"Matthew R. Auer","doi":"10.1007/s11077-024-09528-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-024-09528-7","url":null,"abstract":"Catastrophic wildfire is an increasingly familiar phenomenon on multiple continents. In the United States, concerns about uncontrolled, destructive wildfire have prompted some major insurance carriers to cease writing new policies or to non-renew existing policies. These trends affect not only policyholders, but also, vulnerable communities that already face multiple obstacles to securing property or renters insurance. This study reviews the social and behavioral sciences literatures on wildfire risk in the United States and insurance protection by homeowners. Three categories of research emerge from the review, namely, homeowner as rational actor, wildfire governance and risk management, and wildfire and social equity. There is abundant scholarship on determinants of homeowner decisions to manage wildfire risk by self-protecting or by purchasing insurance, but comparatively little research on the policy implications of shrinking markets for insurance. Policy research on the needs of underinsured and uninsured populations is also relatively undeveloped. Overlaying Lasswell’s social process framework on the three dominant research themes, we find not only divergent research questions, models, and methods, but also, important differences in which stakeholders and stakeholder values are considered. There are opportunities for the different literatures to learn from one another, but also, to sharpen their focus on insurance as a scarce and uncertain resource amid climate change and as property development continues to expand in wildfire-prone areas.","PeriodicalId":51433,"journal":{"name":"Policy Sciences","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140808506","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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There, across the border – political scientists and their boundary-crossing work 在那里，跨越边界--政治学家及其跨界工作

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2024-04-24 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09530-z

Pierre Squevin, Valérie Pattyn, Jens Jungblut, Sonja Blum

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Explaining differences in research utilization in evidence-based government ministries 解释以证据为基础的政府部门在研究利用方面的差异

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09529-6

Jesper Dahl Kelstrup, Jonas Videbæk Jørgensen

{"title":"Explaining differences in research utilization in evidence-based government ministries","authors":"Jesper Dahl Kelstrup, Jonas Videbæk Jørgensen","doi":"10.1007/s11077-024-09529-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-024-09529-6","url":null,"abstract":"Studies of evidence-based policy have found that research often fails to influence policy-making and identify a number of barriers to research utilization. Less is known about what public administrations do to overcome such barriers. The article draws on a content analysis of 1,159 documents and 13 qualitative interviews to compare how and why evidence standards affect research utilization in two Danish ministries with available evidence, policy analytical capacity, and broad political agreement on key policy goals. The article finds support for the proposition that more exclusive evidence standards in ministries will lead to higher levels of research utilization by showing that average levels of research utilization are higher in the Ministry of Employment than in the Ministry of Children and Education in the period 2016?2021. In active employment policy the adoption an evidence hierarchy and the accumulating evidence in a knowledge bank has interacted with stakeholder support and a continued coordination with the Ministry of Finance to provide economic incentives for policy-makers to adopt evidence-based policies thus stimulating research utilization. Evidence for public education policy, by contrast, has been more contested and the Ministry of Children of Education retains inclusive evidence standards in an attempt to integrate evidencebased and practical knowledge from stakeholders, which has led to lower average levels of utilization in the period.","PeriodicalId":51433,"journal":{"name":"Policy Sciences","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140635076","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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Operationalizing Lasswell’s call for clarification of value goals: an equity-based approach to normative public policy analysis 落实拉斯韦尔关于澄清价值目标的呼吁：基于公平的规范性公共政策分析方法

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2024-03-26 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09525-w

Peter Linquiti

{"title":"Operationalizing Lasswell’s call for clarification of value goals: an equity-based approach to normative public policy analysis","authors":"Peter Linquiti","doi":"10.1007/s11077-024-09525-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-024-09525-w","url":null,"abstract":"In 1951, Harold Lasswell defined the ability to clarify value goals as integral to a policy analyst’s job. But graduate education in public policy analysis has paid insufficient attention to the skills needed to investigate and clarify value disputes. In turn, practicing policy analysts don’t have ready access to a set of methods for normative analysis that serves Lasswell’s vision of a contextualized, holistic, and interdisciplinary policy science. I start by describing calls for more emphasis on social equity in policy analysis and explore the complementary relationship of empirical, fact-based analysis and normative, value-driven analysis. I then propose seven competencies that policy analysts should be expected to master. They need to understand how normative issues arise in and adjacent to the classical model of policy analysis. They need to master a vocabulary for normative analysis and understand how humans make moral judgments, recognizing the distinction between moral rationalism and moral intuitionism. To engage in moral rationalism, practitioners need to be able to use the tools of analytic political philosophy. When it comes to moral intuitionism, they need to recognize the emotion-driven foundations of moral judgement and personal values. Finally, policy analysts also need to know where to find the values that are relevant to their analysis. Mastery of these competencies will allow analysts to better serve what Laswell describes as the intelligence needs of policymakers.","PeriodicalId":51433,"journal":{"name":"Policy Sciences","volume":"154 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140291870","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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Enlightenment, politicisation or mere window dressing? Europeanisation and the use of evidence for policy making in Bulgaria 启蒙、政治化或仅仅是装点门面？保加利亚的欧洲化和决策证据的使用

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09527-8

Denitsa Marchevska

{"title":"Enlightenment, politicisation or mere window dressing? Europeanisation and the use of evidence for policy making in Bulgaria","authors":"Denitsa Marchevska","doi":"10.1007/s11077-024-09527-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-024-09527-8","url":null,"abstract":"Evidence-based policy making (EBPM) has been a key pillar of the better regulation agenda of the European Union. However, the extent to which it has genuinely impacted domestic policy making practices has remained largely unexplored. This study sets out to address this gap by focusing on EBPM adoption in settings with historically weak culture of technocratic rationality. To this end, the article proposes a novel analytical framework combining the concept of Europeanisation with insights from the scholarship on knowledge and evidence utilisation. The framework is then applied to the “least likely” case of Bulgaria and its National Climate and Energy Plan for 2021–2030. The article draws on 26 semi-structured interviews to analyse the use of different types of evidence in the Plan’s formulation. The study finds that genuine adoption of EBPM practices remains relatively low with evidence serving predominantly a perfunctory role. In contrast, instrumental and conceptual uses of evidence remain rare. Still, the findings point at the possibility, albeit limited, for gradual Europeanisation and uptake of evidence-based practices even in highly unfavourable conditions. This can be facilitated by a prolonged exposure to evidence-based practices, targeted EU pressure, the establishment of forums facilitating evidence exchange and the presence of “evidence-friendly” individuals within the civil service.","PeriodicalId":51433,"journal":{"name":"Policy Sciences","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140196168","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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Evidence for policy-makers: A matter of timing and certainty? 为决策者提供证据：时机和确定性问题？

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2024-03-06 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09526-9

Wouter Lammers, Valérie Pattyn, Sacha Ferrari, Sylvia Wenmackers, Steven Van de Walle

{"title":"Evidence for policy-makers: A matter of timing and certainty?","authors":"Wouter Lammers, Valérie Pattyn, Sacha Ferrari, Sylvia Wenmackers, Steven Van de Walle","doi":"10.1007/s11077-024-09526-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-024-09526-9","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates how certainty and timing of evidence introduction impact the uptake of evidence by policy-makers in collective deliberations. Little is known about how experts or researchers should time the introduction of uncertain evidence for policy-makers. With a computational model based on the Hegselmann–Krause opinion dynamics model, we simulate how policy-makers update their opinions in light of new evidence. We illustrate the use of our model with two examples in which timing and certainty matter for policy-making: intelligence analysts scouting potential terrorist activity and food safety inspections of chicken meat. Our computations indicate that evidence should come early to convince policy-makers, regardless of how certain it is. Even if the evidence is quite certain, it will not convince all policy-makers. Next to its substantive contribution, the article also showcases the methodological innovation that agent-based models can bring for a better understanding of the science–policy nexus. The model can be endlessly adapted to generate hypotheses and simulate interactions that cannot be empirically tested.","PeriodicalId":51433,"journal":{"name":"Policy Sciences","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140043591","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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Low-fidelity policy design, within-design feedback, and the Universal Credit case 低保真政策设计、设计内部反馈和通用信贷案例

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09520-1

Jonathan Craft, Reut Marciano

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Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking 超越循证决策？探索美国移民决策中的知识形成和来源效应

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Policy Sciences Pub Date : 2024-02-22 DOI: 10.1007/s11077-024-09523-y

Andrea Pettrachin, Leila Hadj Abdou

{"title":"Beyond evidence-based policymaking? Exploring knowledge formation and source effects in US migration policymaking","authors":"Andrea Pettrachin, Leila Hadj Abdou","doi":"10.1007/s11077-024-09523-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-024-09523-y","url":null,"abstract":"Several scholars have observed persistent gaps between policy responses to complex, ambiguous and politicized problems (such as migration, climate change and the recent Covid-19 pandemic) and evidence or ‘facts’. While most existing explanations for this ‘evidence-policy gap’ in the migration policy field focus on knowledge availability and knowledge use by policymakers, this article shifts the focus to processes of knowledge formation, exploring the questions of what counts as ‘evidence’ for migration policymakers and what are the sources of information that shape their understandings of migration policy issues. It does so, by developing a network-centred approach and focusing on elite US policy-makers in the field of irregular and asylum-seeking migration. This ‘heuristic case’ is used to challenge existing explanations of the ‘evidence-policy gap’ and to generate new explanations to be tested in future research. Our findings—based on qualitative and quantitative data collected in 2015–2018 through 57 elite interviews analysed applying social network analysis and qualitative content analysis—challenge scholarly claims about policymakers’ lack of access to evidence about migration. We also challenge claims that migration-related decision-making processes are irrational or merely driven by political interests, showing that policymakers rationally collect information, select sources and attribute different relevance to ‘evidence’ acquired. We instead highlight that knowledge acquisition processes by elite policymakers are decisively shaped by dynamics of trust and perceptions of political and organizational like-mindedness among actors, and that political and ideological factors determine what qualifies as 'evidence' in the first place.","PeriodicalId":51433,"journal":{"name":"Policy Sciences","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.3,"publicationDate":"2024-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139938948","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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