The EU policy framework for nature restoration has undergone a significant change with the adoption of the Nature Restoration Regulation. Since 2022, the EU has developed a new comprehensive and cont...

Nature conservation conflicts increasingly extend beyond ecological objectives to disputes over decision-making legitimacy, institutional authority, and competing understandings of landscape and expe...

Scholars have extensively studied the link between issue definition and policy choice. However, empirical evidence on the role of issue proximity on policy support at the individual level remains sca...

The inherent contradiction between the spatial diffusion of water pollution and administratively-demarcated jurisdictions necessitates transboundary collaboration. A consensus has been reached that e...

Previous studies have primarily focused on the objective characteristics of policy tools while overlooking the influence of citizens' psychological construction of those tools on their effectiveness ...

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has often been accompanied by its characterization as a “wicked issue.” This paper subjects that claim to critical analysis, arguing that it is a misdiagnosis...

We synthesize the Narrative Policy Framework and Grid-Group Cultural Theory to develop two sets of hypotheses about how culturally varying expert narratives and social group cues on COVID-19 influenc...

Involving regulatory intermediaries (RIs) such as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) enriches participation in regulatory policy implementation. However, it also exposes the regulatory system to ne...

Within the framework of Digital China, creating effective policies to support the development of smart cities remains a longstanding challenge. Yet, there has been insufficient focus on evaluating an...

How do public sector innovations emerge and evolve under competing institutional logics? This study answers this question through a historical case study of the establishment of the Administrative Se...

China's poverty alleviation campaign is significant. Over the past four decades, the number of people in China living below the international extreme-poverty line fell by close to 800 million, accoun...

The efficacy of policy innovation largely rests on its internalization into the institutionalized practices of bureaucratic organizations. Existing research has explored the concept, influencing fact...

The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) provides a systematic means of using narrative elements to describe how policymakers define issues, including characters, plot, and setting. In this article I int...

The accelerated digitalisation of society has amplified cybersecurity threats and revealed their cross-sectoral nature. Yet, the policy instruments used to address these challenges remain insufficien...

Information processing is a fundamental part of policy making and is all the more critical in modern policy making environments characterized by information abundance. Using Punctuated Equilibrium Th....

Policy narratives, as a mobilization-oriented communication strategy, are widely applied in public governance to enhance public understanding of and policy support. However, existing research lacks s....

While the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) increasingly attends to narratives articulated by individuals, the mechanisms explaining why certain individual narratives garner attention remain under-exp...

In today's interconnected world, policymaking increasingly involves cross-border engagement, as governments draw on external policy models, organizations, and comparative experience. Earlier research...

Zoning is one of the most widely used land use regulations in the U.S. An increasing number of local governments have adopted zoning ordinances to regulate renewable energy projects. However, there h...

This article introduces apophonic policies as a type of government failure that is rooted in the innate/cognitive human tendency to see meaningful but imaginary patterns among random data. By reviewi...

Policy termination remains one of the least developed areas in policy process research, particularly outside Western contexts. This study investigates the widespread termination of science and techno...

Public private partnership literature promotes hybrid implementation structures as a potential solution to deal with limited resources and high levels of implementation burden and complexity. Despite...

Policy feedback theory introduces the concept that “new policies create new politics” through feedback loops where policies reshape the political environment and influence future policy formulation. ...

What role do scientists play in providing policy knowledge in public debates? Drawing on the Advocacy Coalition Framework, this study examines how scientists express elements of policy knowledge—name...