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{"title":"Policy process theories in Europe: A survey of who uses them, where, and why","authors":"Paul Cairney,&nbsp;Allegra H. Fullerton,&nbsp;Emily St. Denny,&nbsp;Christopher M. Weible","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1237","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Many US policy process theories have been applied as much in Europe as in the US. We assess this journey in three ways. First, we use published reviews of the field to identify the high quantity of applications and their concentration in Western European liberal democracies. Second, we identify the absence of a typical European country experience and our expectation of finding variability across European countries when applying US theories. Third, we survey policy scholars in Europe on how and why they apply US theories to European contexts. Our survey establishes what theories they applied, why, and to what effect. It takes forward a new research agenda on the international application of mainstream policy theories.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"11 2","pages":"168-190"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1237","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144135654","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":"Translating policy harmonization into practice—The case of the EU Blue Card Directive","authors":"Almina Bešić,&nbsp;Andreas Diedrich,&nbsp;Dženeta Karabegović","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1234","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study introduces a translation perspective to analyze the policy harmonization process, highlighting imitation, brokering, and editing in shaping policy dynamics at EU and national levels. The translation perspective emphasizes that while policy development is ongoing, the protracted process signals a shift in EU-wide coordination of skilled labor migration. We show how ongoing translation efforts have transformed the coordination of skilled labor migration across the EU, as labor migration policies have translated into each other, resulting in mutual transformation. The study provides insights into the complex processes of policy harmonization via the Blue Card, enhancing understanding of EU labor migration policy. The findings demonstrate the continuous nature of policy translation between multiple contexts. The article traces developments surrounding the EU Blue Card Directive, including a parallel scheme in Austria, offering insights into skilled migration policy dynamics beyond linear diffusion models.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"11 1","pages":"94-113"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1234","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143431722","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 implementation and policy instruments: The underdeveloped dimensions of the four “political” American policy process theories. A Western European perspective","authors":"Giliberto Capano","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1235","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The fifth edition of “Theories of the Policy Process” represents a further step in consolidating these theories. However, four of them—Advocacy Coalition Framework, Multiple Streams Framework, Narrative Policy Framework, and Punctuated Equilibrium Theory—exhibit a few limitations in light of the characteristics of implementation and policy instruments due to their founding principles, the central role of pluralism and the will to abandon the original normativism of the policy sciences. Thus, these four theories seem to be framed to capture the politics of policy-making in a dynamic way rather than to understand how policies are able to deliver results to society. This affects the relevance and applicability of these theories from a Western European perspective but probably also from other cultural and geopolitical perspectives. After a discussion of these limitations, the paper outlines a number of suggestions for overcoming them.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"11 2","pages":"230-253"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1235","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144135728","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":"Don't you forget about me! Concepts missing from policy process frameworks when applied to Europe","authors":"Reimut Zohlnhöfer,&nbsp;Nicole Herweg","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1236","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Most policy process frameworks were developed in the US but are also applied to (Western) Europe. However, policy processes, the relevant actors, and the institutional setting differ substantially. Hence, the question arises if certain concepts that are important in the European context are missing from the frameworks and if the frameworks have been adapted to take these concepts into account. We discuss the three frameworks most widely applied to Europe, the Advocacy Coalition Framework, the Multiple Streams Framework, and the Punctuated Equilibrium Theory, and focus on three concepts that seem particularly relevant in shaping European policy processes, namely political parties, macro-level institutions, and Europeanization. It turns out that all three frameworks have something to say about all three concepts, although some voids remain. Nonetheless, the adaptations that have been suggested make all three frameworks applicable to European countries and promise substantial explanatory capacity also in these contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"11 2","pages":"207-229"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1236","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144135651","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":"Same money, different impact? The curving effect of European Structural and Investment Funds on EU support in Spain (1990–2019)","authors":"Joel Cantó,&nbsp;Javier Baraibar,&nbsp;Javier Arregui","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1232","url":null,"abstract":"<p>European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) engender European Union (EU) support in generating economic growth, but their effect is conditional on individual European identity and educational background. This study investigates whether the positive impact of ESIF spending on EU attitudes also depends on the alignment of funding with the economic needs of recipient regions. We examine this issue with the Spanish case (1990–2019), employing a unique combined data set of Eurobarometer waves and regional NUTS-2 economic indicators. Our findings indicate that EU funds manage to decrease Euroscepticism only in laggard regions, which receive the lion's share of funds and allocate them to public goods easily perceived and communicated to the local population. Conversely, the effect of ESIF on transforming attitudes is absent in middle and high-income regions. The findings suggest a more complicated relationship between ESIF and EU support, which necessitates taking both individual and contextual factors into account.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"11 1","pages":"54-74"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1232","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143431546","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":"Navigating policy in (trans)action: A methodological framework for situated and relational policy practices","authors":"Szilvia Nagy","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1233","DOIUrl":"10.1002/epa2.1233","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper presents a methodological framework to study situated and relational policy practices in the context of the policy transaction perspective. Building on policy ethnography, it addresses the entanglements of researching policy transactions through triangulation of methods to explore how practices emerge, and how they are “seen,” “talked about,” and “read.” The paper aims to contribute to the policy transaction framework in three ways. First, it discusses how the policy transaction framework furthers the shifting of focus from policy systems to policy worlds, to address the complexities enclosed in policy processes. Second, it advances the framework along the discussion of relationality and situatedness, to highlight the reciprocal mode of transactions. Third, it proposes a methodological exemplar for the analysis of policy transactions, by looking at transactions as practices. With these steps, the paper aims to contribute to a methodological framework for undertaking research in the context of the policy transaction perspective.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"11 4","pages":"505-523"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1233","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145887494","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":"“Security, first of all, begins at home”: How Finland, Latvia, and Germany prepare “ordinary people” for crises","authors":"Alexandra M. Friede","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1229","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In Europe, and specifically in countries bordering the Baltic Sea, preparedness issues have moved up the policy agenda since Russia's 2014 and 2022 invasions of Ukraine. “Ordinary people” are encouraged to prepare for crises—be it through stockpiling food at home, fact-checking information, or signing up for military training. This article unpacks the process through which individual subjects are “responsibilized.” More specifically, it analyses how the risk of war is communicated to make targets act responsibly, drawing on empirical evidence from Finland, Latvia, and Germany. A main tenet is that policy actors appeal to nationally distinct sets of moral codes to responsibilize publics. The Finnish war experience attests to the value of being united, willing and capable of fighting back. Latvia's defence is framed as an integrative force—with the ultimate aim to deter aggressors and ensure national survival. In Germany, inconsistent messaging prevails, simultaneously reassuring and alerting the public.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"11 1","pages":"114-137"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1229","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143431155","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":"Constructing the “moralization shock”: The role of contingency in the translation of anticorruption policy in France","authors":"Sofia Wickberg","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1231","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article applies the concept of transaction to the process of policy transfer, through the case of conflict of interest regulation in France, using archives, documentary sources, and interviews with stakeholders. It contributes to the literature on policy translation by clarifying the role of <i>contingency</i>, which remains underspecified. It shows that timing matters in two ways: it affects actors' ability to open a policy window, and it ultimately affects problem definition and future implementation instruments and practices. It explores the construction of the situation as a scandal, making it necessary to adapt transferred ideas to the political context, where a “shock of moralization” was seen as necessary. It also offers an opportunity to enrich the scholarship on policy transaction with an application to transnational policymaking, where problem definitions and policy solutions are imported from elsewhere and where foreign or transnational actors contribute to the co-construction of actors and issues.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"11 4","pages":"475-492"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1231","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145887218","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":"What determines effectiveness in the policy process?","authors":"Nils C. Bandelow,&nbsp;Johanna Hornung,&nbsp;Fritz Sager,&nbsp;Ilana Schröder","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1227","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;Public policies should ideally be formulated to address a societal problem and being effective in solving it, both in what regards the effectiveness of the process of their development and in their effect on the target population (Bali et al., &lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;; Huber et al., &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;; Knill et al., &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;). Thereby, effectiveness can concern different aspects: It can be related to the coordination or collaboration between policy actors, it can refer to the effectiveness of the policy itself, or the subsequent governance arrangements that result from it (Lubell, &lt;span&gt;2003&lt;/span&gt;; Mei, &lt;span&gt;2020&lt;/span&gt;; Mizrahi et al., &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;; Navarro et al., &lt;span&gt;2012&lt;/span&gt;; Nicholson-Crotty &amp; Carley, &lt;span&gt;2016&lt;/span&gt;; Peters et al., &lt;span&gt;2018&lt;/span&gt;; Steinebach, &lt;span&gt;2019&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span&gt;2022&lt;/span&gt;; Visintin et al., &lt;span&gt;2021&lt;/span&gt;; Wagner et al., &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;). This issue of European Policy Analysis (EPA) brings together research articles that deal—one way or the other—with effectiveness, but from different perspectives.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wiget (&lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;) investigates how beliefs shape the formation of advocacy coalitions among key stakeholders using the example of Swiss pesticide policy. The research is grounded in a survey conducted with 54 key actors, achieving a high response rate of 85%. The survey assessed both core beliefs—related to problem perceptions and policy objectives—and secondary beliefs—concerning support for specific policy measures. The findings reveal that actors’ beliefs significantly influence their positions and interactions, suggesting that agreement and disagreement among stakeholders often reflect deeper ideological divides. Wiget's analysis aligns with previous studies that emphasize the importance of shared beliefs in coalition formation. For instance, Weible and Sabatier (&lt;span&gt;2005&lt;/span&gt;) highlighted how policy networks are shaped by the beliefs of actors in marine protected areas, demonstrating that shared values can facilitate collaboration. Similarly, Zafonte and Sabatier (&lt;span&gt;1998&lt;/span&gt;) discussed how shared beliefs and imposed interdependencies influence ally networks in overlapping subsystems, reinforcing the notion that belief systems are crucial in understanding policy dynamics. It will be interesting to see, how this study will relate to the rising body of research on emotions in advocacy coalitions (Fullerton et al., &lt;span&gt;2024&lt;/span&gt;; Gabehart et al., &lt;span&gt;2023&lt;/span&gt;) The study also contributes to the broader literature on environmental policy, echoing findings from Ingold and Varone (&lt;span&gt;2011&lt;/span&gt;) who argued that policy brokers play a significant role in mediating conflicts and fostering cooperation among diverse stakeholders. By situating the Swiss pesticide policy debate within this framework, Wiget underscores the necessity of recognizing the ideological underpinnings of policy disagreements, which can inform more effective governance strategies.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Focusi","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"10 4","pages":"482-487"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/epa2.1227","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142737403","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":"Is open strategy a good fit for Public-Private hybrid organizations?","authors":"Christian Rosser,&nbsp;Sabrina A. Ilgenstein,&nbsp;Claus D. Jacobs","doi":"10.1002/epa2.1221","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1221","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper investigates whether the systematic application of open strategy can align goals in emerging public-private hybrid organizations, which face the challenge of integrating different identities, forms, and rationales from both public and private stakeholders. We develop an evaluative framework, addressing three crucial issues for a public-private hybrid's early development: What is the public-private hybrid's purpose? Who are the strategic actors involved? What knowledge and skills are needed? By applying the framework to a qualitative case study from the field of Swiss innovation policy, we learn that inclusiveness and transparency largely depend on the timeline of a hybrid's emergence. Public-private hybrids can either choose an inclusive, transparent but gradual, and slow strategy process or a speedy process characterized by the traditional ‘management at the top’ approach. This study offers both empirical and theoretical insights into strategy development in public-private hybrid organizations and its significance for public policy implementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":52190,"journal":{"name":"European Policy Analysis","volume":"10 4","pages":"604-625"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142737474","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}