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The latest in the ILPA book series. Out October 6 - Policy Analysis in India Eds Azad Singh Bali and Satyajit Singh - Maps the evolution of policy analysis since the country’s independence. doi.org/10.51952/978...

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Now Out and OA in Journal of Public Policy - "The persistence and predictability of policy tool use: Policy styles and the tools of government" by Michael Howlett @howlettm and Jale Tosun @jale_tosun doi.org/10.1017/S014...

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The persistence and predictability of policy tool use: Policy styles and the tools of government | Journal of Public Policy | Cambridge Core

The persistence and predictability of policy tool use: Policy styles and the tools of government

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Just out and Open Access! On the micro-level of policy design calibrations and specifications - Giliberto Capano and Michael Howlett "The Politics of Detail The Micro-Dimension of Policy Design" 2026 Palgrave link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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The Politics of Detail

This open access focuses on the micro-dimension of policy design, this book puts forward a new framework to enable policymakers to design better policies

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Out NOW! Howlett, Ramesh & Perl's Studying Public Policy 5th Ed | A textbook for upper-level undergraduates and graduates synthesizing theory, recent research and global consideration of policymaking. Find out more: ☑️ cup.org/3QKytWT

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Studying Public Policy | Cambridge Aspire website

Discover Studying Public Policy, 5th Edition, Michael Howlett, HB ISBN: 9781009691796 on Cambridge Aspire website

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The 2025 Journal Citation Reports are out and Policy and Society has had an exceptional year. The journal ranks 2nd of 97 journals in the Public Administration category and 4th of 332 in Political Science. Its impact factor stands at 6.2. academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

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Policy and Society | Oxford Academic

Policy and Society is a leading international open access journal that publishes peer-reviewed research on critical issues in policy theory and practice at the local, national and international…

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The 2025 Journal Citation Reports are out and Policy Design and Practice (PDP) has secured a strong result with an impact factor of 4.3. PDP is a young journal intended for practitioners and competes against long-established titles in the field. www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpd...

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Latest articles from Policy Design and Practice

Browse the latest articles and research from Policy Design and Practice

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The just released 2026 Clarivate IF for Policy Sciences is 4.5. This year's IF is up from 3.7 last year and is the highest ever recorded by the Journal outside of the two year COVID bump most journals received in 2021 & 2022. Congratulations!

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Just Out - June 2026 Issue of Policy & Society 45(3) - Symposium on Collaborative Governance in Social Policy. Guest Editors: Kidjie Saguin and Azad Singh Bali & articles on welfare chauvinism, citizen participation, policy change and instrument design academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

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JUST OUT - June 2026 issue of Policy Sciences. Articles on problem definition, evidence, blame, policy feedback, path dependence, policy dynamics, knowledge, ACF, the policy cycle, and the Taylor Swift Effect by Maor, Ingold, Cashore, Prakash, Head & many others. link.springer.com/journal/1107...

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Citiscore 2025 for Policy & Society is out: in 2024 the score was 12, in 2025 now 13.6 Now no. 1 globally in Public Administration (last year we were 3) and 2 in Political Science and International relations (last year we were 3). Congratulations! academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

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Policy and Society | Oxford Academic

Policy and Society is a leading international open access journal that publishes peer-reviewed research on critical issues in policy theory and practice at the local, national and international levels...

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Soon to appear - June 2026 - 5th Edition of Studying Public Policy - Howlett, Ramesh & Perl Discount code until July 31 in the attached. More details at www.cambridge.org/ca/universit...

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Soon to appear - June 2026 - 5th Edition of Studying Public Policy - Howlett, Ramesh & Perl Discount code until July 31 in the attached. More details at www.cambridge.org/ca/universit...

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NEW APPOINTMENT - POLICY SCIENCES Welcome to Kris Hartley of Arizona State University who steps into the Associate Editor position vacated by Katrina Korfmacher of the University of Rochester. Kris will take the lead on topics from urban governance to artificial intelligence. www.krishartley.com

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New Cambridge Elements in Public Policy "Policy Experiments: A View From Elsewhere" by Sebastián Ureta Published online 03 April 2026 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Policy Experiments

Cambridge Core - Political Economy - Policy Experiments

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Just Out and Open Access. March issue of Policy Design & Practice - Articles on policy labs, tax policy, co-design, co-regulation, goals, performance, capacity, identity, diversity & positive public administration.

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Still Walking on the Bright Side? Developments in the Scientific Study of Policy Success Special Edition – Call for Papers Eds. Paul Cairney, Matthew Flinders, Janine O’Flynn, Tina Nabatchi Please send abstracts, paper proposals, or questions to m.flinders@sheﬀield.ac.uk by 1 June 2026.

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Just out and Open Access in Policy & Politics - "Inferential reasoning in policy analysis: knowledge use under uncertainty and complexity" by M. Ramesh & M. Howlett (March 30, 2026). bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

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Just out! March 2026 issue of Policy Sciences. Articles on accountability, policy fit, microplastics, Nigeria, feedback, euthanasia, layering, AI and policy labs. link.springer.com/journal/1107...

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS - Special Issue on Complex Policy Design: Current Innovations in Conceptualization, Measurement, and Application - Eds. Saba Siddiki, Matia Vannoni, and Chris Koski Abstracts to ssiddiki@syr.edu by June 1, 2026 with subject "Proposal for Special Issue on Complex Policy Design".

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Coming soon! With Cambridge University Press - Studying Public Policy: Connecting Theory to Practice, Fifth ed. by Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh and Anthony Perl - June 2026 www.cambridge.org/highereducat...

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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

📬 One option for #PolicyReform is to #terminate or end a policy, program, or project. However, there are other similar but different outcomes 🖊️ @andreamigone.bsky.social, Alexander Howlett & @howlettm.bsky.social study #DefensePolicy and #military spending in #Canada 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...

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ANNOUNCEMENT: The 2025-2026 Lasswell Prize for Best Article in Policy Sciences winner. "Theorizing the functions annd patterns of agency in the policy-making process" - Giliberto Capano, Maria Tullia Galanti, Karin Ingold, Evangelia Petridou & Christopher Weible link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Theorizing the functions and patterns of agency in the policymaking process - Policy Sciences

Theories of the policy process understand the dynamics of policymaking as the result of the interaction of structural and agency variables. While these theories tend to conceptualize structural…

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Theorizing the functions and patterns of agency in the policymaking process - Policy Sciences

Theories of the policy process understand the dynamics of policymaking as the result of the interaction of structural and agency variables. While these theories tend to conceptualize structural…

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 12/03/2025

New preprint! A general overview of stats in public policy research with this (oversimplified but still helpful) separation of methods into description, explanation, and prediction #policysky HTML/PDF: stats.andrewheiss.com/snoopy-spring/ SocArXiv: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

This essay provides an overview of statistical methods in public policy, focused primarily on the United States. I trace the historical development of quantitative approaches in policy research, from early ad hoc applications through the 19th and early 20th centuries, to the full institutionalization of statistical analysis in federal, state, local, and nonprofit agencies by the late 20th century. I then outline three core methodological approaches to policy-centered statistical research across social science disciplines: description, explanation, and prediction, framing each in terms of the focus of the analysis. In descriptive work, researchers explore what exists and examine any variable of interest to understand their different distributions and relationships. In explanatory work, researchers ask why does it exist and how can it be influenced. The focus of the analysis is on explanatory variables (X) to either (1) accurately estimate their relationship with an outcome variable (Y), or (2) causally attribute the effect of specific explanatory variables on outcomes. In predictive work, researchers as what will happen next and focus on the outcome variable (Y) and on generating accurate forecasts, classifications, and predictions from new data. For each approach, I examine key techniques, their applications in policy contexts, and important methodological considerations. I then consider critical perspectives on quantitative policy analysis framed around issues related to a three-part “data imperative” where governments are driven to count, gather, and learn from data. Each of these imperatives entail substantial issues related to privacy, accountability, democratic participation, and epistemic inequalities—issues at odds with public sector values of transparency and openness. I conclude by identifying some emerging trends in public sector-focused data science, inclusive ethical guidelines, open research practices, and future directions for the field.

Description Explanation Prediction
General question What exists? Why does it exist? How can it be influenced? What will happen next?
Focus of analysis Focus is on any variable—understanding different variables and their distributions and relationships Focus is on X —understanding the relationship between X and Y, often with an emphasis on causality Focus is on Y —forecasting or estimating the value of Y based on X, often without concern for causal mechanisms
Names for variable of interest — Explanatory variable
Independent variable
Predictor variable
Covariate Outcome variable
Dependent variable
Response variable
Goal of analysis Summarize and explore data to identify patterns, trends, and relationships Estimation: Test hypotheses or theories and make inferences about the relationship between one or more X variables and Y

Causal attribution: A special form of estimating—make inferences about the causal relationship between a single X of interest and Y through credible causal assumptions and identification strategies Generate accurate predictions; maximize the amount of explainable variation in Y while minimizing prediction error
Evaluation criteria — Confidence/credible intervals, coefficient significance, effect sizes, and theoretical consistency Metrics like root mean square error (RMSE) and R^2; out-of-sample performance
Typical approaches Univariate summary statistics like the mean, median, variance, and standard deviation; multivariate summary statistics like correlations and cross-tabulations t-tests, proportion tests, multivariate regression models; for causal attribution, careful identification through experiments, quasi-experiments, and other methods with observational data Multivariate regression models; more complex black-box approaches like machine learning and ensemble models

Table of contents
Introduction
Brief history of statistics in public policy
Core methodological approaches
Description
Explanation
Prediction
The pitfalls of counting, gathering, and learning from public data
Future directions
References

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Just Out and Open Access! Special Issue of Policy & Society 44(4) Dec 2025 on Politics of Intermediation eds. Jale Tosun, David Levi-Faur, Avri Eitan. Articles on regulation, compliance and collaboration across multiple sectors and countries academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS - Special Issue on Diagnostic Methods in Policy-Making: Abductive Reasoning in Policy Analysis, Practice and Pedagogy Eds. M. Ramesh and Michael Howlett

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Just out & Open Access Vol 9(1) of Policy Design and Practice. Articles on regulatory sandboxes, algorithms, accountability, time, lesson-drawing, authoritarianism, policy transfer & India www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpdp20/c...

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Just published - Annual Review of Policy Design 2025. Articles, reports and research of interest to the field from 2025 + classic articles and reviews. ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/de...

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Just Out! New Issue of Policy Sciences (Dec 2025). link.springer.com/journal/1107... Articles on complexity science, transgender policy, policy learning, law, leadership, soveriegnty, buzzwords, minipublics & wildlife

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Call for Papers Now Out! 2026 Asia Pacific Public Policy Network (AP-PPN) Conference “Innovating Public Policy for a Sustainable Asia-Pacific: Data, Technology, Trust and Resilience” May 30-31, 2026 Nankai University (NKU), Tianjin Conference Website: asiapacificppn.org　Mode: In-person only

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Just out and 100% OA in Policy Design & Practice October Issue 8(4). Articles on system leadership, wicked problems, AI, digital government, citizen evaluation, aboriginal co-design, food security and local procurement. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpdp20/c...

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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

🛎️New Issue is out❗️ Towards a 3⃣rd generation of #PolicyAdvisorySystems studies❓ Co-guest edited by @andreamigone.bsky.social & @howlettm.bsky.social, the new generation studies how different PAS are structured and operated—or managed—to deliver quality results👇 academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

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Andrea Migone @andreamigone.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The Special Issue about 3rd generation Policy Advisory Systems edited by me and @howlettm.bsky.social as just been published in @policysociety.bsky.social Nine OA articles focusing on the future of PAS. @raulpachecovega.bsky.social @gcapano.bsky.social

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Andrea Migone @andreamigone.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

The introduction by @howlettm.bsky.social, Tullia Galanti, @andreamigone.bsky.social and Giulia Vicentini discusses how quality of advice and the fluider nature of PAS have become key elements of this 3rd generation. @sfu.ca academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

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Andrea Migone @andreamigone.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

In their article, @andreamigone.bsky.social and @howlettm.bsky.social look at how 3rd generation PAS manage the political and technical risks associated with the production and trasmission of advice. academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

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Just out & Open Access in Policy & Society 44(3) Sept 2025 -Special Issue "Towards a 3rd Generation of Policy Advisory System Studies" Eds Michael Howlett & Andrea Migone @howlettm @Andrea_Migone academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

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Just out & OA in Policy & Society 44(3) Sept 2025 - Special Issue "Towards a 3rd Generation of Policy Advisory System Studies" Eds Mike Howlett and Andrea Migone @howlettm @Andrea_Migone Papers on PAS Quality and Management - Canada EU Germany China Kazakhstan&Kenya academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...

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Policy and Society is a leading international open access journal that publishes peer-reviewed research on critical issues in policy theory and practice at the local, national and international…

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