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{"title":"The Effect of Population Health on Corruption","authors":"Henri Njangang,&nbsp;Younchawou Ngouwouo,&nbsp;Alain Ndzana","doi":"10.1111/polp.70188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.70188","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper examines the effect of population health on perceptions of corruption, drawing on a panel of 30 sub-Saharan African countries from 2000 to 2021. Using health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) as a comprehensive indicator of population health and employing an instrumental-variable estimation strategy, we identify a robust and negative causal relationship: improved health is associated with a reduction in corruption. The analysis explores two main transmission channels, namely: increased per capita income and improved educational attainment, through which better health contributes to institutional integrity. The results remain consistent despite various sensitivity tests and are qualitatively validated when the analysis is extended to a larger panel of 101 developing countries. These findings highlight the role of population health not only as a development outcome but also as a driver of improved governance, with important policy implications for anti-corruption strategies and health investment priorities in low- and middle-income countries.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Related Articles</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Bodjongo, Mathieu Juliot Mpabe. 2026. “Effects of Perceptions of Corruption on Citizens' Trust in Religious and Customary Service Providers in Africa.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 54(4): e70171. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.70171.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Hiroi, T., and G. S. Schober. 2023. “Corruption, Patronage, and Avertable Child Deaths in Developing Countries.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 51, no. 6: 1174–1194. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12568.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Lagunes, P. F. 2012. “Corruption's Challenge to Democracy: A Review of the Issues.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 40, no. 5: 802–826. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2012.00384.x.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51679,"journal":{"name":"Politics & Policy","volume":"54 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149205810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bureaucratic Interests: Does Fiscal Decentralization Impede Efficient Governance?","authors":"Yuxing (Nemo) Chen","doi":"10.1111/polp.70173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.70173","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examines the relationship between fiscal decentralization and administrative unit reduction in China, with particular attention to the political and institutional conditions under which subnational governments resist centrally coordinated streamlining. Drawing on an original province-year panel that combines 33,297 administrative unit changes from 2000 to 2022 with fiscal, demographic, geographic, and textual data, the paper uses a game-theoretic framework and two-way fixed-effects regressions to analyze how fiscal institutions shape administrative restructuring. The results show a robust negative association between expenditure-side fiscal decentralization and administrative unit reduction: provinces with greater fiscal autonomy tend to carry out fewer reductions in administrative units. The analysis further explores two conditional mechanisms. The findings show that decentralization may hinder territorial streamlining not simply by devolving authority downward, but by altering the institutional and discursive conditions under which local actors defend existing administrative structures.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Related Articles</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Lee, Yunsoo. 2026. “Untangling the Relationship Between Fiscal Decentralization and Citizen Participation: A Critical Revisit.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 54 (1): e70121. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.70121.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Oumbe, Honoré Tekam, Borice Augustin Ngounou, Edmond Noubissi Domguia, Malonne Hyppolite Ngnie, &amp; Thierry Messie Pondie. 2025. “Does Fiscal Decentralization Kill Inclusive Growth? Evidence From African Countries.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 53 (6): e70076. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.70076.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Wang, Yingyao. 2017. “Why Tax Policy Is Not Politics in China: Public Finance and China's Changing State-Society Relations.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 45 (2): 194–223. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12200.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51679,"journal":{"name":"Politics & Policy","volume":"54 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/polp.70173","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149205472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Value Sovereignty and the Limits of Democratic Delegation","authors":"Kwangyong Park","doi":"10.1111/polp.70190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.70190","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Why do some forms of delegation to non-majoritarian institutions generate persistent democratic controversy while others, equally insulated from political control, do not? The Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank, for instance, are alike on the standard measures—authorization, accountability, expertise, and performance—yet are judged differently in democratic terms, a difference those measures cannot explain. This paper argues that the missing factor is who retains the authority to revise the criteria by which an institution resolves value conflicts. I call this condition value sovereignty, and treat it not as something a delegation simply has or lacks but as a matter of degree: the further the power to revise an institution's operative criteria has moved from ordinary political reach, the less value sovereignty it retains. This yields a single scale, delegation depth, on which the two banks fall at different points—the Federal Reserve's mandate, revisable by ordinary legislation, near one end, and the European Central Bank's treaty-entrenched objective further along—and on which systems built to govern open-ended domains, including advanced artificial intelligence, mark the far limit, where the authority to revise the criteria passes to the delegated system itself. The framework thus supplies a criterion that authorization, accountability, and performance leave unnamed, and orders both established institutions and emerging ones.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Related Articles</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Agoba, Abel Mawuko, Yakubu Awudu Sare, Ebenezer Bugri Anarfo, and Christian Tsekpoe. 2023. “The Push for Financial Inclusion in Africa: Should Central Banks be Wary of Political Institutional Quality and Literacy Rates?” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 51, no. 1: 114–136. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12514.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Asongu, Simplice A., Joseph Nnanna, and Vanessa S. Tchamyou. 2021. “Finance, Institutions, and Private Investment in Africa.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 49, no. 2: 309–351. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12395.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Scarlato, Margherita, and Giorgio d'Agostino. 2019. “The Political Dimension of Cash Transfers in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa: A Comparative Perspective.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 47, no. 6: 1125–1155. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12332.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51679,"journal":{"name":"Politics & Policy","volume":"54 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Do MPs Venue Shop? Westminster Hall as a Strategic Policy Choice Venue","authors":"Daniel Baldin Machado,&nbsp;Cristina Leston-Bandeira,&nbsp;Louise Thompson","doi":"10.1111/polp.70187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.70187","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Research shows that policy actors strategically select different institutional venues to lobby on specific issues to influence policy-making. But we lack understanding of how Parliament, a key representative and legislative body, may offer itself multiple venue shopping opportunities for internal actors. Our study explores venue shopping at the intra-parliamentary level in the UK Parliament by MPs themselves, showing how they use Parliament's two debating chambers: the government-controlled House of Commons chamber and a parallel backbench chamber, Westminster Hall. Drawing on analysis of 60 backbench debates and 17 elite interviews, we find that MPs do engage in intra-parliamentary venue shopping, utilizing debates differently in each chamber. While the main chamber serves as an agenda-setting venue, Westminster Hall is used as an accountability venue, creating a policy-oriented dialogue with government and fostering clearer policy outcomes. Our study makes a key contribution showing that venue shopping can occur intra-institutionally by internal policy actors.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Related Articles</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Gash, Alison, and Michael H. Murakami. 2015. “Venue Effects: How State Policy Source Influences Policy Support.“ <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 43, no. 5: 679–922. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12128.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Grossmann, Matt. 2014. “The Varied Effects of Policy Cues on Partisan Opinions.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 42, no. 6: 881–904. http://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12102/abstract.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Rugeley, Cynthia R., and John David Gerlach. 2012. “Understanding Environmental Public Opinion by Dimension: How Heuristic Processing Mitigates High Information Costs on Complex Issues.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 40, no. 3: 444–470. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-1346.2012.00352.x/abstract.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51679,"journal":{"name":"Politics & Policy","volume":"54 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/polp.70187","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149146060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Humanitarian Diplomacy From Below: Muhammadiyah in Indonesia's Response to the Rohingya Crisis","authors":"Husni Amriyanto Putra,&nbsp;Faris Al-Fadhat,&nbsp;Zuli Qodir,&nbsp;Hasse Jubba","doi":"10.1111/polp.70185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.70185","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The protracted Rohingya crisis has exposed the limits of conventional diplomacy in a regional order constrained by sovereignty and non-interference. Yet humanitarian engagement has continued through societal actors operating alongside formal diplomatic institutions. This article asks how and under what conditions the humanitarian and societal capacities of Muhammadiyah, one of Indonesia's largest Islamic organizations, acquire diplomatic significance in Indonesia's response to the crisis. Drawing on interviews with Muhammadiyah humanitarian actors and Indonesian government officials, triangulated with organizational documents, official materials, and secondary sources, this study examines medical assistance, humanitarian infrastructure, interfaith engagement, state-society coordination, and transnational resource mobilization. The findings demonstrate that humanitarian activity does not automatically constitute diplomacy. Rather, it crosses the threshold into diplomatic significance when the capacities it generates become connected to relational or institutional channels through which humanitarian and political engagement is conducted. The case highlights how diplomatic practice and capacity can become pluralised without an equivalent redistribution of sovereign diplomatic authority. Conceptualizing this process as humanitarian diplomacy from below, the article shows how autonomous societal capacities can complement state diplomacy while their effects remain consequential but bounded.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Related Articles</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Prodip, Mahbub Alam. 2023. “Education for What? The Politics of Education for Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 51(6): 1028–1045. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12541.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Ravi, Chaitanya. 2021. “The 1971 Bangladesh War and Policy Lessons for Climate Refugee Management in South Asia.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 49(1): 248–74. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12392.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Byrne, Jennifer. 2016. “Contextual Identity among Liberian Refugees in Ghana: Identity Salience in a Protracted Refugee Situation.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 44(4): 751–82. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12169.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51679,"journal":{"name":"Politics & Policy","volume":"54 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149145984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Entrapping the Hegemon: How Benjamin Netanyahu's Threat Rhetoric Drives US Military Escalation","authors":"Bülent Aras","doi":"10.1111/polp.70184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.70184","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How do materially weaker junior allies influence a hegemon's military posture? Existing theories rely on unobservable covert diplomacy, leaving alliance entrapment methodologically unresolved. This research note introduces a mixed-methods framework, integrating computational text analysis, time-series forecasting, and qualitative process tracing, to test whether allied public rhetoric proactively conditions US military escalation. Comparing the Iraq War buildup (2001–2003) with the contemporary Iran conflict (2023–2026), this article provides evidence of how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has utilized public threat rhetoric in ways consistent with systematically entrapping the United States into regional wars. The findings challenge unipolar strategic independence, indicating that allied rhetoric systematically precedes and forecasts US military action. While maximalist interventions resolve the allied security dilemma and deactivate rhetorical pressure (the “Off-Ramp”), proportional restraint paradoxically traps the US in a compounding escalation loop, eroding strategic autonomy and ultimately culminating in the ongoing 2026 joint US–Israeli war against Iran.</p>","PeriodicalId":51679,"journal":{"name":"Politics & Policy","volume":"54 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/polp.70184","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149048162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Policy Thresholds for Effective Integration: Does Political Stability Shape the Sustainable Development Gains of Regional Trade Integration in Africa?","authors":"Sulemana Mumuni,&nbsp;Temitope Rasheed","doi":"10.1111/polp.70181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.70181","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Africa faces rising political tensions and uneven progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), raising concerns over whether the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) can deliver sustainable development gains. Using data on 42 African countries from 2014 to 2023, this paper examines whether political stability conditioned the impact of regional trade integration on sustainable development in Africa. The study uses dynamic panel threshold regression, supplemented by a two-way fixed-effects interaction model. The findings established minimum political stability thresholds of 33.47% for regional trade integration (RTI) and 38.26% for intraregional trade shares (IRTS) to yield sustainable development gains. Additionally, the results revealed strong persistence of sustainable development, especially in politically unstable environments. Thus, maintaining a more politically stable environment mitigates the sustainable development trade-offs associated with trade integration in Africa. The study adds to the political economy literature by establishing the political stability thresholds for effective integration in Africa.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Related Articles</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Ceesay, Almamo, and Antun Mardiyanta. 2026. “From Policy Reform to Strategic Governance Reconfiguration: Pathways to Sustainable Development in Africa.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 54(4): e70165. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.70165.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Adegboye, Alex, Kofo Adegboye, Uwalomwa Uwuigbe, Stephen Ojeka, and Eyitemi Fasanu. 2023. “Taxation, democracy, and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa: Relevant linkages for sustainable development goals.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 51(4): 696-722. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12547.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Villanueva Ulfgard, Rebecka. 2019. “Mexico’s Struggle with Development between Global Compromises and National Development Plans.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 47, no. 1: 50–78. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12288.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p><b>JEL Classification:</b> F13, F15, F63, F68, Q01</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51679,"journal":{"name":"Politics & Policy","volume":"54 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Trump's Revisionism and the Liberal Economic Order: Disruptive Coercion, Roving Banditry, and International Disorder From Within","authors":"Humayun Javed","doi":"10.1111/polp.70183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.70183","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Scholars have paid limited attention to exploring international disorder emanating from the disorderly conduct of the dominant power. The United States, under Donald Trump, is actively undermining the essential elements of the American-led liberal economic order—commercial openness, a network of institutions and regimes, and nondiscriminatory provision of essential public goods—that the United States created after the Second World War. How can we conceptualize and explain such a situation in which the dominant power actively undermines (from within) the very order that it helped establish in the first place? While employing Olson's conceptual frame of “roving banditry”—also characterized by “coercive leadership” and “international disorder”—this study argues that Trump's international conduct, especially in his second term, should be conceptualized as roving banditry because Trump coercively extracts private profits and contributes little to the system's overall functioning due to his minimal stakes in the long-term sustenance of the system. This is demonstrated by Trump's practice of rent seeking and private extraction through discriminatory protectionism, economic retaliation, and transactional trade deals that bypass traditional multilateral bodies. While taking Trump's 5 years in office as an empirical reference point, the study further argues that Trump, like a roving bandit who practices coercion, weaponizes interdependence, bypasses systemic rules, and denies any contribution to public goods while coercively undermining and abandoning the system's essential components at will.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Related Articles</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Moynihan, D. 2025. “Trump, Personalism, and US Administrative Capacity.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 53, no. 4: e70059. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.70059.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Merry, M. K. 2022. “Trump's Tweets as Policy Narratives: Constructing the Immigration Issue via Social Media.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 50, no. 4: 752–772. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12487.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Garrett, T. M. 2020. “The Security Apparatus, Federal Magistrate Courts, and Detention Centers as Simulacra: The Effects of Trump's Zero Tolerance Policy on Migrants and Refugees in the Rio Grande Valley.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 48, no. 2: 372–395. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12348.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51679,"journal":{"name":"Politics & Policy","volume":"54 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Political Economy of Transformative Globalization: Evidence From BRI Participating Countries Using Panel Quantile Regression","authors":"Muhammad Idrees,&nbsp;Saranjam Baig,&nbsp;Khalid Mehmood Alam","doi":"10.1111/polp.70180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.70180","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examines the effects of transformative globalization on welfare and income distribution using an extensive dataset encompassing 23 Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) participating countries from 2010 to 2020. We conducted a comprehensive data analysis using quantile regression and the Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM), ensuring the robustness and reliability of our findings. The study finds that income and wealth inequality decline as countries integrate into the BRI, highlighting the role of transformative globalization in promoting equity. The impact is more pronounced in the upper percentiles, suggesting a more significant equalizing effect among wealthier segments. Quantile regression analysis reveals that, while globalization positively affects overall welfare, middle-income groups experience the most significant gains. This underscores the particularly favorable impact of transformative globalization on the well-being of middle-income individuals, contributing to a more equitable distribution of resources and improved human welfare across societal strata. These findings will be of interest to policymakers and researchers examining the distributional dimensions of BRI participation. The study provides valuable insights into how transformative globalization, through the BRI, can lead to more equitable income and wealth distribution and enhance human welfare, with a distinctive emphasis on its differential impacts across various income groups.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Related Articles</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Chang, Y. Y. 2023. “China Beyond China, Establishing a Digital Order With Chinese Characteristics: China's Growing Discursive Power and the Digital Silk Road.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 51, no. 2: 283–321. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12524.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Duggan, N. 2020. “China—The Champion of the Developing World: A Study of China's New Development Model and Its Role in Changing Global Economic Governance.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 48, no. 5: 836–858. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12377.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Fong, W., and N. Sakib. 2021. “A ‘Good’ Country Without Democracy: Can China's Outward FDI Buy a Positive State Image Overseas?” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 49, no. 5: 1146–1191. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12428.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51679,"journal":{"name":"Politics & Policy","volume":"54 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Green Hydrogen in Brazilian Media: Dominant Narratives and Missing Dimensions of the Energy Trilemma","authors":"Flávia Mendes de Almeida Collaço,&nbsp;Felipe Moura Oliveira,&nbsp;Thiago Costa Holanda,&nbsp;Lira Luz Benites Lazaro","doi":"10.1111/polp.70182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.70182","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Media discourses help shape the visibility and legitimacy of energy transition pathways in the public sphere. This study examines how Brazilian mainstream newspapers framed green hydrogen and assesses the alignment of these narratives with the energy trilemma: energy security, environmental sustainability, and social accessibility. We analyzed 286 articles published by G1 and Estadão between January 2020 and June 2023, combining BERTopic-based topic modeling, supervised LDA, and qualitative contextual interpretation. The findings show that media coverage addressed all dimensions of the energy trilemma but prioritized financing, investment, production costs, regulation, and export opportunities. Social accessibility, environmental impacts, territorial conflicts, and the distributive implications of water and land use remained comparatively marginal. Brazilian media therefore tended to portray green hydrogen as a market-oriented and export-driven opportunity rather than as a comprehensive socio-ecological transition. These findings highlight the limits of mainstream media framing and its insufficient attention to energy and climate justice.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Related Articles</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Kerrouche, N., and C. Zehri. 2025. “Saudi Energy Transition: ARDL Analysis of Macroeconomic Trade-Offs.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 53, no. 6: e70085. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.70085.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Kilinç-Pala, P. B. 2021. “Approaches in Energy Exclusive Security: Theories of Energy Security and the Dominance of Realism.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 49, no. 3: 771–794. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12411.</p>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Segatto, C. I., and D. Béland. 2018. “The Limits of Partisanship: Federalism, the Role of Bureaucrats, and the Path to Universal Health Care Coverage in Brazil.” <i>Politics &amp; Policy</i> 46, no. 3: 416–441. https://doi.org/10.1111/polp.12252.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51679,"journal":{"name":"Politics & Policy","volume":"54 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2026-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/polp.70182","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148994170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}