Historical patterns of policy change may vary depending on the characteristics of the policy domain and the nature of the subsystem that surrounds it. Against the backdrop of major changes since the ...

Amid the global rise of startup ecosystems as engines of technological innovation and economic growth, Iran's policymaking for its ecosystem remains a contested arena shaped by hybrid governance and ...

How do governments' discursive credit-claiming and blame-deflection strategies shape perceived policy legitimacy in times of crisis? Despite the importance of legitimacy in conflictual times, systema...

How do governments' discursive credit-claiming and blame-deflection strategies shape perceived policy legitimacy in times of crisis? Despite the importance of legitimacy in conflictual times, systema...

How can we explain decisions by governments to engage in policy investments—accepting short-term costs in return for anticipated gains in the longer term—after previously sustaining the status quo? O...

In recent years, governments have changed the way they solve public problems by implementing new technologies, systems, and digital platforms. Recently, Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications have...

Electric vehicles (EVs) are a key strategy for reducing transportation greenhouse gas emissions. State and local EV policies in the United States often extend beyond the transportation sector, impact...

This article addresses a critical issue in evidence-informed policymaking: the challenge of translating knowledge into policy outputs amidst the complex interplay between research and politics. It di...

This article examines the trade-offs embedded in the European Union's digital policymaking, focusing on the tensions between fundamental rights, security, and economic competitiveness. Using a trilem....

This article introduces the concept of policy spandrels to make sense of public policies producing second-order effects that are unintentional from the perspective of policy design and yet are fraugh...

Has digitalization changed policy-making dynamics at the European Union (EU) level? To investigate this issue, this article presents a scoping review of the literature on EU digital policy-making. Wh...

How do citizens participate in interactions with street-level bureaucrats? We systematically reviewed 50 studies and identified a repertoire of citizens' attitudes and behaviors, ranging from complia...

This article examines the fire and rescue services sector in Sweden in the period 1986–2021, and explains the timing of bureaucratic reforms using the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF). In this study,...

The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) addresses the decisions that actors make when constructing policy narratives and the influence of those narratives on policy dynamics. This research explores an u...

Investigating how government departments allocate attention provides insights into the different levels of emphasis placed on different types of policies. Identifying factors that shape local governm....

Policy reinvention is a crucial issue in policy innovation, yet it has garnered little attention from scholars, particularly in the context of China. Focusing on public–private partnership (PPP) poli...

Limited research attention has been devoted to understanding whether policy meaninglessness is related to professional turnover intention among street-level bureaucrats, especially in China. Drawing ...

Despite the extensive development of policy diffusion literature, its Western-oriented foundations constrain broader applicability, and empirical investigations on how multiple mechanisms interact in...

Public appointments shape the top-level bureaucracy by serving as a gateway for professionals with different profiles, chosen based on different criteria. In general, the literature has been more int....