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{"title":"Arts and culture in transformation: A critical analysis of the national plans for the European Recovery and Resilience Facility","authors":"Diana Betzler,&nbsp;Ellen Loots,&nbsp;Marek Prokůpek","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1188","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1188","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The understanding of resilience, and how the ability to respond or adjust to new situations can be implemented and evaluated, gained prominence in public policy. This study examines how European Union (EU) member states plan to support cultural and creative sectors (CCSs) within the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) of the NextGenerationEU Program and how they plan the CCSs to contribute to the grand challenges of our time. Using mixed methods, it is found that the understanding of how structural deficiencies in CCSs can be addressed is not systematic and not all countries invest to make the cultural infrastructure more future-proof. Neither the budgets nor the mode of resilience (absorption, adaptation, and transformation) exposed in the plans consistently correlates with how countries intend to address key impact pillars. Countries with larger CCSs are more prone to transformation. The theoretical contribution lies in the elaboration of the concept of “ex ante resilience.”</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"10 1","pages":"101-127"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1188","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136128701","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":"Energy efficiency, housing, and economic policy","authors":"Nils C. Bandelow,&nbsp;Johanna Hornung,&nbsp;Fritz Sager,&nbsp;Ilana Schröder","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1185","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1185","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Summer is always an exciting period of the year for journal editors because citation indices publish the latest journal-specific performance indicators. For our &lt;i&gt;European Policy Analysis (EPA)&lt;/i&gt; journal, this year has brought amazing news. Not only has our SCOPUS CiteScore risen from 5.3 to 7.8, which is an increase by almost 50%.&lt;sup&gt;1&lt;/sup&gt; It is also the first year that Clarivate Analytics, which publishes the Journal Citation Reports within the Web of Science, has issued an Impact Factor (IF) for EPA. The inclusion in the Web of Science and the IF are indicative of the high-quality articles that we publish, as well as the quick, responsible, and reliable processes of peer review. We sincerely thank our authors, reviewers, and all people who have contributed to EPA's success. Proudly, we present EPA's first IF of 5.0, which ranks it second in the Political Science category of the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) and fourth in the Public Administration category of the ESCI. Considering the journals listed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), this makes EPA one of the top 15 journals in Political Science, and one of the top 10 journals in Public Administration. Words cannot describe how happy we are about this result. Our thanks to the great authors and reviewers who made this possible. We are aware that keeping this still young journal in the upper quartiles of the indexes for an extended period of time will be even more challenging.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In our view, the most recent publications of our journal can contribute to a continuation of EPA's success story. At the ravages of time, which are shaped by new questions regarding sustainability and digitalization but also seemingly old debates on democracy and governance, the past year has bundled a few of these questions in a special issue on Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGIs) and their explanatory power in the realm of public policy research. Back then, the visionary article by Tosun and Howlett (&lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;) has provided an empirical operationalization of policy styles by means of the SGIs. The long-lasting impact of this article is already visible. In this EPA issue Zahariadis et al. (&lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;) build on this operationalization, but use different SGI concepts as indicators for mode of problem-solving and inclusiveness. This allows them to comparatively assess administrative, managerial, accommodative, and adversarial policy styles. While these present to distinct ways of empirically capturing policy styles, they are at the same time representative of the growing interest in policy styles (Casula &amp; Malandrino, &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;; Howlett &amp; Tosun, &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;; Newman et al., &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;; Schillemans et al., &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At a less theoretical and more empirical level, the EPA contributions in this issue focus on topics of current importance in energy, housing, and economic policy. These sectors even entail relevant intersections, as","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"9 3","pages":"196-199"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1185","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48999181","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":"Framing the benefits of European Union policy expansion on energy efficiency of buildings: A Swiss knife or a Trojan horse","authors":"Fredrik von Malmborg,&nbsp;Martin Björklund,&nbsp;Johan Nordensvärd","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1184","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1184","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper analyzes through qualitative and quantitative analysis of European Union (EU) policy documents the framing of EU policy on energy-efficient buildings from the 1970s to 2022. We find that it has been framed in different ways over the decades and the framing has expanded to include more and more benefits. Through this expansion, energy efficiency has been linked to other policy areas, such as security, environmental, economic, and social policy. The shifts in framing can be seen as responses to external events. The expansion can also be explained using two metaphors to analyze how the framing differs depending on political positioning. One where policy is seen as a Swiss knife, able to solve multiple political problems, and one where policy is seen as a Trojan horse, where new policy domains are snuck in by policymakers disguising it as energy efficiency policy to increase EU competency in relation to national governments.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"9 3","pages":"219-243"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1184","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45464205","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":"Change agents in Germany's energy transition: Role of the state of Schleswig-Holstein in wind electricity development from the 1970s to 2009","authors":"Rie Watanabe","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1179","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1179","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Energiewende (energy transition) has become a worldwide critical challenge. Unlike extensive literature that explains Germany's energy transition focusing on federal actors, this study analyzes the role of Schleswig-Holstein in federal wind energy policy-making. Schleswig-Holstein was an economically poor state governed by the Christian Democratic Union from 1950 to 1988 and supported nuclear energy in the late 1970s and early 1980s. By integrating the notions of “leaders,” “pioneers,” and “entrepreneurs,” and exploring the relationship between these change agents and “followers,” this study elucidates a nuanced classification of actors. An examination of proceedings of the federal assembly, the second chamber, and the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament revealed that Schleswig-Holstein changed its role from a potential veto-coalition player in the 1970s to a constructive pusher of repowering older windmills in the 2009 Renewable Energy Act revision. This study also highlights that leaders, pioneers, and entrepreneurs do not necessarily overlap and do capture different change agents.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"9 3","pages":"244-270"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42909548","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":"Between hierarchies and markets: How street-level bureaucratic autonomy leads to policy innovations","authors":"Stéphanie Barral,&nbsp;Ritwick Ghosh","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1178","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1178","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) play a key role in the implementation of market-based instruments (MBIs), their participation is widely understudied. This paper addresses this blind spot by engaging the concept of street-level bureaucratic policy entrepreneurship. Using the case of conservation banking, a market-based environmental policy in the United States, we explore why this novel instrument has only been adopted in a handful of jurisdictions. We examine both non-adoption and adoption of conservation banking to find that SLBs are likely to engage in such entrepreneurial acts when a new policy form is particularly useful in legitimizing regulatory enforcement. Implementing a MBI is, however, not straightforward. Organizational conditions can restrain SLB autonomy to implement MBIs, preferring instead to persist with baseline policies, which further underscores the importance of SLB risk-taking behavior. SLBs must strategically straddle their unique position between the market and the hierarchy to enroll different actors into the new policy arrangement, all within dynamic political–economic conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"9 4","pages":"418-439"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44508214","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":"EU PEACE funding: The policy implementation deficit","authors":"Colin Knox,&nbsp;Karl O'Connor,&nbsp;Markus Ketola,&nbsp;Paul Carmichael","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1177","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1177","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the intersection of policy implementation, conflict/peacebuilding, and the role of the EU PEACE program in Northern Ireland (NI). Conflict societies see a great investment of external funds, attempting to promote conflict resolution. Specifically, this article analyses the fourth wave of such funding in NI to examine why the EU PEACE program has not fully brought about its intended policy outcomes. Using Matland's conflict-ambiguity model of policy implementation, we identify how EU funds can be skewed to support local political interests. Simultaneously, the EU PEACE program continues to adhere to strict implementation criteria that makes little sense given the local context. Therefore, contrary to its objectives, the implementation of EU funding can compound rather than ameliorate divisions in postconflict NI. Instead of prescribing strict implementation criteria, EU policy could focus on improving the administrative capacity and discretion of local administration in devising locally relevant implementation strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"9 3","pages":"290-310"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1177","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47535963","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":"Three years of COVID-19 pandemic: Coping with crisis governance in the long term","authors":"Céline Mavrot,&nbsp;Anna Malandrino","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1175","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1175","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;This special issue of &lt;i&gt;European Policy Analysis&lt;/i&gt; on COVID-19 policies follows two previous ones addressing that topic. The first one was published in the fall 2020 to examine the initial reactions of governments to the shock of the crisis (Colfer, &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;), and the second one in fall 2022, to analyze how governance processes had evolved with the prolongation of the crisis (Malandrino &amp; Mavrot, &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;). This spring 2023 marks the 3rd year of the pandemic, which gives us even more hindsight to assess the questions raised by one of the most challenging public health events faced by nations worldwide in the recent past. This new special issues hence gathers contributions that address key transversal issues related to pandemic management: how to integrate scientific evidence into crisis management, and whether the inclusion of evidence even guarantees good outcomes. Is there a national administrative style that can help explain the output performance of crisis management? What does policy learning look like when the policy cycle happens within a reduced timeframe and under high political pressure? How legitimate are the policy instruments implemented during the pandemic in the public's eyes? The questions raised in this special issue are key not only to studying the crash test the pandemic has represented for governments and democracies but also to drawing lessons for future crises that wait around the corner. These crises will no doubt share some common characteristic with the COVID-19 pandemic: the need for arbitration between various policy requirements (e.g., somatic and psychological health needs, public health and the economy), the challenge of adopting sustainable governance principles in the general context of political short-termism, finding a balance between decisive public action and the requirement of democratic processes, the integration of scientific evidence into policy-making processes and the necessity of fighting against skepticism (e.g., corona-skepticism, climate-skepticism).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At a time of returning to normalcy with the relative mitigation of the epidemics and the ending of emergency regimes in most parts of the world, two questions arise: what did the COVID-19 crisis say about political systems from a governance perspective, and how did the crisis add to our reflections from a political science perspective? Regarding the first aspect, the crisis shed light on the possibilities of over and under reactions, as well as on the importance of the level of trust in the government to navigate the pandemic in ways acceptable to citizens (Capano et al., &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;). The temporal development of the event also showed effects of policy convergence in the first phase because of the exceptional character of the situation, followed by a diversification in governance paths related to the ways policy feedback affected the political calculus in each country (Sayers et al., &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;). A fundamenta","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"9 2","pages":"96-100"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1175","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46282915","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":"Social acceptance of policy instrument design during times of crisis","authors":"Flavia Fossati,&nbsp;Philipp Trein","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1174","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1174","url":null,"abstract":"Disasters create challenges for governments as they need to design effective and legitimate policy instruments to deal with the crisis. In this paper, we analyze social acceptance of regulations and financial investments in crisis governance, taking the example of the COVID-19 pandemic. By using data from two survey experiments in Switzerland, we show that respondents support rules that temporarily centralize decision-making power to the national level but object to regulations that would make contact tracing efforts mandatory. The data shows also that citizens support financial investments of tax money to prevent future crises. Those who are afraid of the health consequences of the crisis are especially favorable to stricter regulations and financial investment, whereas economic worries related to the crisis specifically and political ideology in general barely explain variance in support for crisis responses. In general, this research contributes to our understanding of how survey experiments can be used to analyze social acceptance of policy instrument design. © 2023 Policy Studies Organization.","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"9 2","pages":"167-190"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1174","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42695207","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":"Exploring the link between administrative styles and policy output: The case of the Italian Extraordinary Commissioner for the Covid-19 Emergency","authors":"Mattia Casula,&nbsp;Anna Malandrino","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1176","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1176","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Administrative style is a central concept in public policy and administration research. Despite the developments in the field, less is known about the effect different administrative styles have on policy output. To contribute to filling this gap, the article offers an original framework to explore the link between administrative styles and policy output based on the consolidated distinction between functional and positional orientations as constitutive elements of administrative styles. This framework is applied to an under-investigated case of public organization in the Italian context, that is, the administrative apparatus headed by the Extraordinary Commissioner for the Covid-19 Emergency, to test the general hypothesis that what makes the difference in determining output performance is an administration's positional orientation, not only its functional one. Doing so, the article contributes to “second generation” administrative style research and provides a theoretical and analytical framework to be tested in future cross-national and cross-sectoral comparisons.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"9 2","pages":"119-141"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1176","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47185640","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":"Trading labor for experience: The role of unpaid internships in shaping Active Labor Market Policies in Ireland since the Great Recession","authors":"Jonathan Arlow","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1171","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1171","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Active Labor Market Policies (ALMPs), which include state-funded apprenticeships, have long been used as a way of encouraging unemployed youth into skilled and semiskilled trades. However, new forms of “nonstandard” employment are now dominating young people's experience of the labor market. In fact, unpaid internships are becoming a normal part of a modern curriculum vitae and viewed as a necessary rite of passage for a successful school-to-work transfer, especially in the middle-class professions. Through the use of freedom of information requests, policy documents, evaluation reports, and semistructured interviews, this paper examines the role of unpaid internships in shaping the four most recent ALMPs targeted at Irish youth since the Great Recession (2008). It theorizes that the increased prevalence of unpaid internships in the entry-level jobs market leads to Irish policymakers designing youth unemployment ALMPs based on a private-sector unpaid internship model. This paper will first situate youth unemployment policy within the literature on ALMPs and unpaid internships. It will then combine process tracing as a within-case research method with a comparative case study of the four ALMPs. In conclusion, this paper finds that Irish youth unemployment policy designed during periods of economic crisis tends to prioritize the needs of host organizations and mirror employment norms established through unpaid internships. Conversely, during periods of economic growth, the Irish youth unemployment policy reverts to a more regulated model that protects the entry-level jobs market. Furthermore, this paper recommends that European states should prohibit the use of unpaid internships to avoid further entrenching precarious and discriminatory work patterns.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"9 3","pages":"311-336"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1171","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45552608","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}