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Defining artificial intelligence as a policy problem: A discourse network analysis from Germany 将人工智能定义为政策问题:来自德国的话语网络分析
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European Policy Analysis Pub Date : 2024-02-07 DOI: 10.1002/epa2.1203
Nicole Lemke, Philipp Trein, Frédéric Varone
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Infringements of European Union law at the local and regional level across Member States 各会员国在地方和地区层面违反欧盟法律的情况
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European Policy Analysis Pub Date : 2024-01-10 DOI: 10.1002/epa2.1201
Peter Clinton, Javier Arregui
{"title":"Infringements of European Union law at the local and regional level across Member States","authors":"Peter Clinton,&nbsp;Javier Arregui","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1201","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1201","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper investigates variations in infringements of EU rules by substate authorities. The paper tests the effect of structure and actor level variables. First, we test structural factors in terms of the autonomy that substate authorities hold. Second, we test some actor level factors that may also increase transaction costs: autonomy of substate actors, public opinion on the EU and administrative capacity. The results indicate that there is a relationship between the increased autonomy of substate authorities and higher number of infringements. The results also provide support that preference to exercise this autonomy correlates with higher infringements. In addition, the results show that negative public opinion on the EU is strongly correlated to higher numbers of infringements. This suggests that transaction costs associated with multilevel policy implementation and attitudes to the EU are determinants of substate infringements.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"10 2","pages":"188-205"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1201","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139439502","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}
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The cost of participation: An analysis of the financial dimensions of participatory budgets in Portugal 参与的成本:葡萄牙参与性预算的财务层面分析
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European Policy Analysis Pub Date : 2023-12-21 DOI: 10.1002/epa2.1200
Rodrigo Sartori Bogo, Roberto Falanga
{"title":"The cost of participation: An analysis of the financial dimensions of participatory budgets in Portugal","authors":"Rodrigo Sartori Bogo,&nbsp;Roberto Falanga","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1200","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1200","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic innovation that allows citizens to deliberate about a share of the public budget. Portugal was one of the most influent countries in this field in the last decade, as PB was implemented at multiple levels. However, few studies have made in-depth research on the financial dimensions of PB, which raises interest as to whether and how citizens' voice has had a significant impact on policy-making. To fill in this gap, this article considers the financial asset of local, regional, and national PBs in Portugal up to the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our methodological approach relies on both quantitative data analyzed through Geographical Information Systems and descriptive statistics, and qualitative data retrieved from document analysis. Findings are discussed through four different stages of dissemination in the country, and show that despite significant advancements in this field, impacts in the financial dimensions lay behind expectations.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"10 2","pages":"279-299"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138948189","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}
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Estimating the effect of policy entrepreneurship on individual vaccination behavior during the COVID‐19 pandemic 估计 COVID-19 大流行期间政策创业对个人疫苗接种行为的影响
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European Policy Analysis Pub Date : 2023-12-06 DOI: 10.1002/epa2.1198
Kristin Taylor, Rob A DeLeo, Elizabeth Albright, Elizabeth A. Koebele, T. Birkland, Deserai A. Crow, Manli Zhang, Elizabeth A. Shanahan
{"title":"Estimating the effect of policy entrepreneurship on individual vaccination behavior during the COVID‐19 pandemic","authors":"Kristin Taylor, Rob A DeLeo, Elizabeth Albright, Elizabeth A. Koebele, T. Birkland, Deserai A. Crow, Manli Zhang, Elizabeth A. Shanahan","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1198","url":null,"abstract":"Most studies of policy entrepreneurship seek to understand how entrepreneurs influence the behavior of policy‐makers in the agenda‐setting or decision‐making phases of the policy process. Recent scholarship has sought to understand what role entrepreneurs might play in policy implementation by focusing on their ability to influence bureaucrats' discretion and behavior. However, these studies overlook the potentially critical influence of policy entrepreneurs during the implementation of “opt‐in” policies that require voluntary compliance by individuals to be successful. Here, we consider whether and how a visible policy entrepreneur can impact opt‐in policy implementation, focusing on their credibility—or ability to gain public trust—as a potential driving factor of their influence. Using the empirical context of COVID‐19 vaccination recommendations, we identify Dr. Anthony Fauci as a highly visible policy entrepreneur and assess his influence on individual vaccine intention and uptake. Drawing on data from a novel panel survey of the American public on attitudes about the virus, risk, politics, and vaccination during the first several months of the COVID‐19 vaccine rollout in the United States, we test the relationship between respondent trust in Dr. Fauci and changes in reported intention to vaccinate and vaccination uptake across time. We find that trust in Dr. Fauci is an important predictor for influencing individuals' intention to vaccinate and actual vaccination behavior.","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"8 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138596885","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}
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The game of energy transition: A game theoretical perspective on public participation procedures in infrastructure planning 能源转型的博弈:从博弈论角度看基础设施规划中的公众参与程序
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European Policy Analysis Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.1002/epa2.1199
Eva Ruffing, Viktoria Brendler
{"title":"The game of energy transition: A game theoretical perspective on public participation procedures in infrastructure planning","authors":"Eva Ruffing,&nbsp;Viktoria Brendler","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1199","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1199","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For energy transition, infrastructure construction is often indispensable but also contested and potentially problematic for social cohesion. Through a game theoretical lens, we examine the basic configuration of infrastructure conflicts. Informed by the empirical example of German electricity grid planning, we discuss three approaches to resolve multilevel infrastructure conflicts, (1) technocratic decision-making, (2) participatory decision-making, and (3) redistribution and compensation, as well as the conditions under which we can expect them to mitigate conflicts. Each of the three approaches has been tried out in German grid planning over time, which allows us to analyze whether the respective conditions were met and why the approaches were (not) able to resolve existing conflicts. We demonstrate that enduring conflicts in German grid expansion are not caused by a fundamentally ill-defined decision-making procedure but rather by a particularly “wicked” conflict structure that can hardly be resolved within planning procedures.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"10 1","pages":"39-60"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1199","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139210465","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}
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Why we need to study street-level policy entrepreneurs 为何我们需要研究街头政策企业家 Por qué necesitamos estudiar a los emprendedores políticos a nivel de calle Why we need to study street-level policy entrepreneurs 为何我们需要研究街头政策企业家 Por qué necesitamos estudiar a los emprendedores políticos a nivel de calle
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European Policy Analysis Pub Date : 2023-11-21 DOI: 10.1002/epa2.1195
Nissim Cohen, Gwen Arnold, Evangelia Petridou
{"title":"Why we need to study street-level policy entrepreneurs\u0000 为何我们需要研究街头政策企业家\u0000 Por qué necesitamos estudiar a los emprendedores políticos a nivel de calle","authors":"Nissim Cohen,&nbsp;Gwen Arnold,&nbsp;Evangelia Petridou","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1195","url":null,"abstract":"<p>An emerging literature argues that street-level bureaucrats can develop and advocate for policy innovations that change policy in meaningful ways, calling this phenomenon “street-level policy entrepreneurship.” This argument is at the heart of the present special issue, which features contributions to developing the theoretical underpinnings of street-level policy entrepreneurship and empirically examining evidence for this phenomenon. While the traditional understanding of street-level bureaucrats views them as administrative functionaries, lacking motivation or resources for innovation, this new perspective recognizes that street-level officials' deep knowledge of a given policy domain and involved stakeholders uniquely positions these officials to advocate for policy innovations affecting the domain and its constituents. We urge scholars to take street-level policy entrepreneurship seriously and to examine questions at the frontiers of our knowledge about these entrepreneurial officials, including what motivates them, what strategies for policy advocacy they find most effective, and how their behaviors are shaped by different institutional contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"9 4","pages":"342-355"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1195","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138432409","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}
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Context matters—different entrepreneurial approaches among street-level bureaucrats enhancing digital inclusion 背景很重要——街头官僚之间不同的创业方法增强了数字包容
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European Policy Analysis Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI: 10.1002/epa2.1197
Elin Wihlborg, Helena Iacobaeus
{"title":"Context matters—different entrepreneurial approaches among street-level bureaucrats enhancing digital inclusion","authors":"Elin Wihlborg,&nbsp;Helena Iacobaeus","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1197","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1197","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Digital technology is frequently used in the delivery of public services. Since not everyone has the skills or digital access required to use such digital services, street-level bureaucrats must find new ways to support citizens to be able to enhance digital inclusion. In most public settings, these new practices of digital support need to be developed in parallel with the street-level bureaucrats' ordinary assignments. This article analyses the development of street-level bureaucrats' entrepreneurial and innovative practices in promoting digital inclusion in two spheres: conventional welfare service provision and in a project-based welfare service provision initiative explicitly intended to enhance digital inclusion. The article builds on qualitative case studies in municipalities in Sweden and demonstrates that there are more openings for innovative, entrepreneurial solutions among street-level bureaucrats in the more project-based setting than in the conventional welfare services. This implies that context matters for street-level entrepreneurial approaches.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"9 4","pages":"379-396"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1197","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135934796","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}
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Street level bureaucrats, policy entrepreneurship, and discretion in enforcing bans on motorcycle taxis in Lagos, Nigeria 在尼日利亚拉各斯,街头官僚、政策企业家和执行摩托车禁令的自由裁量权
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European Policy Analysis Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI: 10.1002/epa2.1196
Rob Ackrill, Eghosa Igudia, Olasunmbo Olusanya, Basirat Oyalowo
{"title":"Street level bureaucrats, policy entrepreneurship, and discretion in enforcing bans on motorcycle taxis in Lagos, Nigeria","authors":"Rob Ackrill,&nbsp;Eghosa Igudia,&nbsp;Olasunmbo Olusanya,&nbsp;Basirat Oyalowo","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1196","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1196","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recently, the authorities in Lagos have implemented policies progressively restricting the operation of okadas (motorcycle taxis). We analyze the enforcement of these measures through the lens of street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) and street-level policy entrepreneurs (SLPEs). Doing so, we introduce two novel features into the literature. First, the extant literature focuses primarily on policies that deliver public services, whereas policies can also control proscribed behavior. We refer to these as service delivery and regulation, respectively. Second, the exercise of discretion by SLBs and SLPEs can result in both “underenforcement” and “overenforcement” of regulatory policies, the latter potentially involving breaking the law. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Lagos between 2021 and 2023, we find strong evidence of both underenforcement and overenforcement of okada bans over time, but with more overenforcement. This offers important insights conceptually for the SLPE literature and empirically to the challenges of policing urban Lagos.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"9 4","pages":"440-464"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1196","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135973682","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}
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Blame-avoidance and fragmented crisis management during the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland 瑞士 COVID-19 大流行期间的避责和零散危机管理
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European Policy Analysis Pub Date : 2023-10-25 DOI: 10.1002/epa2.1194
Céline Mavrot, Fritz Sager
{"title":"Blame-avoidance and fragmented crisis management during the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland","authors":"Céline Mavrot,&nbsp;Fritz Sager","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1194","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1194","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article studies how the prolonged pandemic situation impacted crisis governance in the federalized governance system of Switzerland. It examines how in this acute crisis situation, the responsibility for decision-making fluctuated among governance levels, placing subnational states in a situation of uncertainty that caused a <i>fragmented crisis management</i>, and therefore suboptimal policy learning processes. The study is based on the case of COVID-19 governance in Switzerland, where, as in many other European countries, the management of the first pandemic wave was very centralized. However, the federal government avoided taking a strong lead during the subsequent waves. Consequently, pandemic management was marked by numerous fluctuations regarding who was in charge of the main COVID-19 decisions between the federal and subnational governance levels. A media analysis (February 2020–March 2022) and an analysis of the gray literature show that crisis governance and policy learning processes were scattered across levels of governance, which impeded the accumulation of knowledge and know-how. The article analyses how crises can give way to blame games between the levels of governance, thus hampering a coordinated crisis management and policy learning processes across the different stages of the pandemic.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"10 1","pages":"61-83"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135168521","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}
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Policy feedback and the enforcement of international wildlife treaties in Germany 政策反馈与国际野生生物条约在德国的实施
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European Policy Analysis Pub Date : 2023-10-17 DOI: 10.1002/epa2.1192
Kayla M. Gabehart, Allegra H. Fullerton, Christoph H. Stefes
{"title":"Policy feedback and the enforcement of international wildlife treaties in Germany","authors":"Kayla M. Gabehart,&nbsp;Allegra H. Fullerton,&nbsp;Christoph H. Stefes","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1192","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1192","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Laws are only as good as their enforcement. International treaties are no exception. We investigate how Germany implements international wildlife protection treaties, namely the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and the Bern Convention. We find that Germany's federal system allows for uneven enforcement of national legislation across the 16 federal states. We utilize Policy Feedback Theory as a theoretical lens to examine how federalism (re-)produces different enforcement regimes. We rely on qualitative analysis of interviews of German street-level bureaucrats, government officials, and NGO representatives. We find that macrolevel context impacts how institutions enforce wildlife protection policies. Particularly, Germany's federal structure permits either centralized, decentralized, or cooperative arrangements that result in differences in resources, affecting the ways bureaucrats view their roles and responsibilities. These resource and interpretive effects further feedback into the contextual structure of the federal enforcement system.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"10 1","pages":"10-38"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136033060","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}
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