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Inga Ulnicane @ingaulnicane.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
📌 Table of most cited articles on AI policy & governance (according to Web of Science), from new paper by Paul in Critical Policy Studies 3 out of 4 most cited papers are from 2021 special issue on Governance of AI in @policysociety.bsky.social available here academic.oup.com/policyandsoc... #AI
Most cited articles on AI policy and governance
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Why & how does collaborative governance succeed or fail in highly polarised democracies ❓ Raffaele Bazurli & Francesca Campomori study the #AsylumPolicy in Italy & the politicisation of local governance in Bologna and Venice amid the 2010s “refugee crisis” 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Do people carry stable tendencies toward (non)compliance across different regulatory settings❓ Michaela Assouline & colleagues employ a multi-vignette survey conducted in the #UnitedKingdom across 7 regulatory scenarios 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We are delighted to inform policy debates 7⃣ @policysociety.bsky.social articles are cited by various policy documents in the first half of 2⃣0⃣2⃣6⃣ Visit: academic.oup.com/policyandsoc... to browse recent articles on #CollaborativeGovernance, #PolicyTermination and #GoverningCrises
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Why submit your excellent manuscripts and special issue proposals to @policysociety.bsky.social ❓ #OpenAccess publishing allows broad coverage and boosts mentions in policy documents👇 academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Laura De Vito & @gaiataffoni.bsky.social have developed a conceptual framework that foregrounds enablers for #reliability and #usability of #StrategicForesight evidence The key takeaways have appeared in ANZSOG's Insights 👇 anzsog.edu.au/insights/usi...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
How do discursive paradigms shift in morally contested domains ❓ Who initiates interpretive change ❓ Carey Doberstein & Sarah Ferencz analyze long-run changes in elite public discourse on #DrugPolicy in British Columbia👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
#ComplexSocietalProblems are persistent and feature contested goals, incomplete knowledge & uncertain, path‑dependent effects Claudio Lazo, Andrea Kerstens & Angela Greco synthesize a hierarchical structure of problem complexity dimensions 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Designing effective packages is difficult because instruments differ in expected impact and how citizens evaluate them Yuhao Ba, Yiyun Xia & Shanyue Wang evaluate policy packages in electric-vehicle (EV) transition, AI regulation & population aging 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
📒 June 2026 Issue is out Guest-edited by @kidjiesaguin.bsky.social & @azadsinghbali.bsky.social, a symposium examines #CollaborativeGovernance in #SocialPolicy The Issue also hosts four research articles 👇 academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
📢Clarivate the 2026 #JournalCitationReport is out The #ImpactFactor has risen from 6.1 in 2024 to 6.2 in 2025. 🎊 @policysociety.bsky.social ranks 4th among 332 in Political Science journals & 2nd among 97 in Public Administration journals We thank our authors, reviewers, and readers
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
How detailed and compulsory are laws shaping #CollaborativeGovernanceRegimes and #CollaborativePlatforms❓ Jiho Kim, Brian Ohl, Nara Yoon & Tina Nabatchi examine laws in #Oregon that authorize or mandate collaborative governance👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
When and why is evidence likely to be mobilized more broadly ❓ Mariana Batista finds that the research characteristics matter to the bureaucrat’s attitudes toward evidence use 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
#Scopus #CiteScore 2025 is out ❗️ @policysociety.bsky.social ranks 1⃣st among #PublicAdministration & 2⃣nd among #PoliticalScienceandInternationalRelations journals 🎊 We sincerely thank our authors, reviewers, and readers 👇 www.scopus.com/sourceid/570...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Got a big idea for Special Issues that challenge policy thinking❓ @policysociety.bsky.social is inviting proposals for #SpecialIssues that critically examine established frameworks, develop new conceptual tools, or open promising lines of inquiry 👇 academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
How little attention public policy scholarship has paid to personal experience as a driver of policy attitudes and behavior Arnost Vesely & Ivan Petrusek conceptualize personal experience as a distinct mechanism of attitude formation 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The way we measure the success of #BehavioralPublicPolicies (BPPs) camouflages inequalities Till Grüne-Yanoff suggests #InterventionFairness to understand and analyse how and why BPPs treat people heterogeneously 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
What is the current state of #BehaviouralPublicPolicy (BPP) scholarship ❓ Swee Kiat Tay & Ching Leong analyse 2,301 BPP articles from 1980 to 2024 on the Scopus database & observe an exponential increase in BPP publications and thematic shifts 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The role of #IndigenousPeoples in #ForestProtection is crucial Marco J Haenssgen, Maria Ann Sanu & Ivo Vlaev explore how innovative policy options can support their natural resource management from the bottom up 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Can inaction, before a crisis, often interpreted as the absence of entrepreneurship, in fact be a deliberate posture aimed at reinforcing the status quo ❓ Damien Ballereau & Sabine Saurugger offer a more nuanced understanding of entrepreneurial role 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
#BehavioralPublicPolicy’s rapid growth has outpaced its conceptual consolidation Alejandro Hortal argues that the field must strive for greater precision and consistency, even if full definitional closure remains elusive 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Can #StrategicForesight function as a legitimate and effective source of #evidence for policymaking ❓ Laura De Vito & @gaiataffoni.bsky.social develop a conceptual framework that foregrounds enablers for reliability and usability of #StrategicForesight evidence 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
How can policymakers in chronically reform-sclerotic economies leverage crisis framing to fast-track radical policy reforms ❓ Tolga Bolukbasi develops an integrative framework that opens the black box between shock and outcome 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Markets in developing countries are commonly informal & the dynamics of the informal sector, and the dual nature of economies are under-theorized Aviram Sharma analyze the formal and informal processes of #intermediation in #India 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Department of Government, Uppsala University @uu-polisci.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Advocacy coalitions aren't just networks—they're full-fledged political machines. This article by Daniel Nohrstedt and Tim Heinmiller rethinks them as organizations with strategies, resources, and power plays in policy battles. doi.org/10.1093/pols... @policysociety.bsky.social
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Advocacy coalitions as political organizations
Abstract. Conceptually, advocacy coalitions are referenced in several policy process theories and frameworks to describe groups of actors that share belief
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
What makes top executive appointees qualified #PolicyIntermediaries in bridging the gap between the #president & the #ministry by communicating the president’s policy objectives to the latter ❓ Don S Lee & Min H Kim use a conjoint experimental design 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
How do government-affiliated intermediaries shape climate policy experiences ❓ Bruno Arcand explores the interactions between the state and government-affiliated intermediaries in the context of climate-related industrial policy 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Got a big idea that challenges policy thinking ❓🧠⚡️ @policysociety.bsky.social is inviting proposals for individual articles and special issues that critically examine established frameworks, develop new conceptual tools, or open promising lines of inquiry 👇 academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Under what conditions can #BehavioralPolicy interventions facing intense contestation still yield positive returns ❓ Giuseppe Veltri proposes a three-dimensional policy cube 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
How does #collaborative service delivery persist when the setting is not favorable & enabling conditions are weak ❓ Anka Kekez & Anat Gofen examine how #CollaborativeGovernance is made workable in constrained environments 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The #BigTech is becoming ever more powerful in modern societies & the policy implications of its rise remain underexplored @rosalingrad.bsky.social, Hongzhou Zhang & @arazth.bsky.social develop an idealized theoretical construct of the #SuperPolicyEntrepreneur 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
How do people experience #PolicyTermination and #dismantling❓ How are other policies affected❓ @gmocejudo.bsky.social & Johabed Olvera argue that understanding these effects is just as important as comprehending the policy termination process itself👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Guillermo M. Cejudo @gmocejudo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
What happens after policies end? By dismantling or terminating policies, governments reshape lives, bureaucracies, policy subsystems, and political behavior. In our new article in @policysociety.bsky.social, Johabed Olvera and I examine the effects of termination and dismantling
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Congratulations to Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée👏🎊 @cmi.no has awarded him their prize for outstanding #development research The article shows that a sub-class of highly institutionalized partnerships has developed into transnational bureaucracies 👇 www.globe.uio.no/english/news...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
How have governments found a tool for reclaiming authority in the #Nationalization of #ElectricitySystems #Operators ❓ Jose M. Valenzuela studies the evolution of electricity markets as a process of constant re-making of regulatory relations 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
#PolicyTermination revisited ❓ The forthcoming Special Issue on #PolicyTermination, co-guest edited by Vandna Bhatia, Carsten Daugbjerg & Frank Ohemeng, shows that policy termination can be a particular type of #PolicyChange 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
What #capacities & mechanisms are required to sustain #IntersectoralCollaboration over the longer term for more #equitable #health outcomes ❓ Helen Dickinson & colleagues explore disability & health collaborative governance arrangements during #COVID-19 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
How do external and internal dynamics influence an organisation’s intermediation activities ❓ Ciara Kelly & colleagues investigate how the effectiveness & sustainability of NGOs as climate intermediaries are shaped by external policymaking structures 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
#BehavioralPublicPolicy (#BPP) is thriving ❗️ 🧐 Yet BPP is also plagued by conceptual confusion Avishalom Tor proposes, explains, and defends a more precise and useful definition of this widely used subcategory of behaviorally informed policies 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Are policies terminated because of capacity loss or policy subsystem support loss ❓ Erik Baekkeskov & Olivier Rubin use the case of #AMR #NAPs & argue that #PolicyTermination can be relatively pervasive when policy lacks #roots in domestic politics 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
How and why do #crises reconfigure #PoliticoAdministrative relations in #LocalGovernments❓ Nicolai De Wulf & @joris-voets.bsky.social study how decision-makers retain #discretion, particularly in designing #CrisisManagement configurations👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
How do governments frame and govern crises ❓ Catarina Ianni Segatto & Fernanda Lima-Silva analyze #flood crises in #Brazil, and study how governments change their #definition of crises and their approach to governing during crises 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
🗯️ #COVID19 had devastating effects on the economy and society 🖊️Eugenio Borgognoni & colleagues examine the governance of the COVID-19-related economic crisis at the #EU level & its reflection at the national level 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
How do some crises unleash sweeping, paradigm-shifting reforms while others leave entrenched policies and institutions largely unscathed ❓ Tolga Bolukbasi unpacks a cascade of crisis-framing mechanisms into its interlocking cogs and wheels 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
How do #BlameAvoidance & #CreditClaiming attempts affect the way officeholders govern a #crisis & adjust their policies ❓ Céline Honegger & colleagues focus on governments’ aim to avoid blame and claim credit & crisis governance types and policy change 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
The definition of a #crisis is not determined solely by objective conditions❓ Stefania Profeti & Federico Toth propose a response-oriented classification of crises, with an eye to political and strategic considerations behind them 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
🧐 #Crisis scholarship shows extensive conceptual #fragmentation, inconsistent #terminology, and multiple research methods ✍️ @gcapano.bsky.social, @laura-mas.bsky.social & Stefania Profeti provide a #SystematicAnalysis of the literature on crisis and policy change 👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols...
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Laura Mastroianni @laura-mas.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Just OUT in @policysociety.bsky.social: @gcapano.bsky.social, Stefania Profeti and my article presenting a systematic literature review of the relationship between crisis and policy change. academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...
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Unpacking the multidimensional relationship between crisis and policy change: a systematic review
Abstract. This article presents a systematic review of how the relationship between crisis and policy change is conceptualized, operationalized, and analyz
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A 🆕 year & the 1⃣ st Issue of 2⃣ 0⃣ 2⃣ 6⃣ Co-guest edited by @gcapano.bsky.social, Philippe Zittoun & Stefania Profeti, the Special Issue analyses the politics of governing #crises The contributions examine crisis governance across continents and policy sectors👇 academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...
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Policy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
📣 #CallforPapers The special issue seeks to address the gap by advancing both theoretical understandings and practical application of #Abductive methods in #PolicyAnalysis Deadline❓ May 1, 2026 👇
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