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When the political leader is the narrator: the political and policy dimensions of narratives

subsystem and the pursuit of consent in the political arena. To attract more scholarly attention to this relationship, this paper distinguishes between two types of narratives—the political narrative and the ... Political and Social Science, University of Bologna , Bologna , Italy 1 Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan , Via Conservatorio 7, 20122 Milan , Italy There is increasing

Polycentric disaster governance in a federalising Nepal: interplay between people, bureaucracy and political leadership

political leaders to bring transformative changes at the municipal level in quick succession. The article concludes that polycentric governance configurations in Nepal are rather becoming complex ... : A Challenge for Development’ in 2004. The report views disaster governance as exercising economic, political, and administrative authority to manage disasters at all levels, mindful of multifaceted

Policy integration as a political process

the focus on political aspects of the policy integration process. The papers examine the politics of policy integration from a theoretical and empirical perspective. The results underline the importance ... linkages between existing policy systems. Up to now, the scientific literature has focused on policy integration predominantly from a policy design perspective. This special issue puts the focus on political

Political Reality: Attack Ads are Here to Stay

The primary research questions of this study center on two largely overlooked areas in negative political advertising: (1) Would the sponsor of the attack ad message be better off with a positive ... California State University , San Bernardino , USA 1 Dingus , Rebecca; Song, Chanho; Kolbe, Richard H.; and Hu, Michael Y. (2022) "Political Reality: Attack Ads 2 Kent State University 3 Rebecca Dingus, Ohio

How foes become allies: the shifting role of business in climate politics

of policymaking. We identify three sets of drivers and causal mechanisms behind business repositioning related to political, policy, and market change. We argue that political mechanisms can shift ... ; Lobbying; Policy reform; Climate politics; Energy transition Introduction Corporations are powerful political actors in capitalist societies (Gilens & Page, 2014) . Political analysts have long been

Brand Activism in the Age of Black Lives Matter Movement

corporations that are taking a stand on divisive social and political issues that exists in today’s America. It finds that while socially-conscious consumers respond better to brands that support socio-political ... ) movement. It sought to address the gap in extant marketing strategy and brand crisis literature by synthesizing the literature on the socio-political actions and behavior of American corporations and their

Advancing the multiple streams framework for decision-making: the case of integrating ethics into the Norwegian oil fund strategy

agenda-setting process as a policy commitment, rather than a worked-out proposal ready for negotiations in the political stream. Acknowledging the uncertainty and ambiguity in the decision-making process ... recognized problem and presented within a conducive political context. Although the MSF is considered to have high potential as a policy theory, critics have pointed out that the wide application of the

Political ideology and vaccination willingness: implications for policy design

Mannheim , Germany 1 Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University , Bergheimer Straße 58, 69115 Heidelberg , Germany The COVID-19 pandemic has forced governments to impose major restrictions on ... citizens, but also resulted in the strengthening of populist movements and their political representatives, who are generally skeptical of policies that help to stem the spread of the COVID-19 virus—a

Pathways to policy integration: a subsystem approach

Researchers in public policy and public administration agree that policy integration is a process. Nevertheless, scholars have given limited attention to political aspects that facilitate or impede ... policy process. Our main argument is that policy integration is in permanent political tension with the sectoral logic of policymaking, which predominantly happens between actors in subsystems. Policy

Emotional citizens, detached interest groups? The use of emotional language in public policy consultations

In public consultations, policymakers give stakeholders access to the policymaking process in exchange for technical or political information. Our article proposes to analyze not only the policy ... resource exchange. In exchange for access to the policymaking process, stakeholders contribute political and technical information in public consultations. Policymakers, in turn, hope to gain expertise and

Institutional coordination arrangements as elements of policy design spaces: insights from climate policy

design, we highlight institutional arrangements as elements of policy design spaces and contend that they fall into four categories that either stress the political or problem orientation of this activity ... indeed fall into the four above-mentioned categories. The cluster analysis further reveals that a fifth, hybrid category exists. Interestingly, the political orientation dominates in the institutional

Explaining the political use of evaluation in international organizations

Despite a growing literature on the politics of evaluation in international organizations (IOs) and beyond, little is known about whether political or administrative stakeholders indeed realize ex ... efficiency, evaluation being one of the measures they take. Yet, in the political reality of public organizations, evaluation finds itself caught between stakeholder struggles for interests and power (Azzam

The role of actors

—increase the chances of MPs of engaging in both biodiversity mainstreaming and its cross-sectoral integration. The results based on a comprehensive collection of political documents from the parliamentary ... question, we analyze Swiss biodiversity policy between 2000 and 2018. Based on a comprehensive collection of political documents (Reber et al., 2022) , we examine the chracateristics of the MPs introducing

Explaining why public officials perceive interest groups as influential: on the role of policy capacities and policy insiderness

proposals passed between 2015 and 2016 at the European Union level. Our findings show that interest groups associated with high analytical and political capacities are perceived as more influential for final ... the interviewed public officials. Our findings show that the groups that are perceived as more influential for the final policy outcome are those that are associated with higher analytical and political

Policy feedback and institutional context in energy transitions

that a relatively small set of political, political economy and social institutions are likely to be important. The argument is then applied through a comparison of the evolution of solar PV policy in ... benefits), siting and industrial policy. This approach is illustrated in the case of the dynamics of support policies for solar photovoltaics (PV). I identify a limited number of political, political

Evaluation use and learning in public policy

the political process has pointed out that decision-makers learn from evidence to improve policies to solve problems. On the other, scholars have underlined that actors learn from evidence to support ... policy learning and to more political learning from policy evaluations. Nevertheless, this article's empirical analysis also points out that issue salience increases policy learning from evaluations if the

Rethinking disproportionate policy making by introducing proportionate politics

that it does not pay sufficient attention to politics. We present a heuristic which includes political perception of both programme and political threats. Our core argument is that much of what is ... more holistic and political understanding of policy dynamics. Disproportionate policy making; Policy overreaction; Policy underreaction; Policy dynamics; Policy sciences - Accepted: 22 May 2021 © The

Policy’s role in democratic conflict management

how democracies manage and absorb political and societal conflicts becomes broadly relevant. Existing theories and perspectives view conflict management through the lens of elections and other ... . Westview Press. Wilson , J. Q. ( 1995 ). Political organizations . Princeton University Press. Wolfe , A. , & Klausen , J. ( 1997 ). Identity politics and the welfare state . Social Philosophy and Policy

Causality is good for practice: policy design and reverse engineering

which it has little effect” (Flyvbjerg, 2001: 165) . Indeed, several factors counter practice-oriented scholarship. A partial list would include a rationalistic bias ignoring political problem-solving ... , 2004; Barzelay, 2007; Busetti & Dente, 2018; Capano & Howlett, 2019; Melloni et al., 2016; Ongaro, 2009; Pawson & Tilley, 1997) but also and primarily in sociology, political science, and methodology

Policy experimentation: core concepts, political dynamics, governance and impacts

profound level, taking a broader definition of experiments could create a means to connect to the pragmatist philosophy of Dewey and others. What are the?key political dynamics? This leads logically to our ... known for instance that experiments are a key ingredient in the emergence of behavioral economics, but they are also increasingly popular in sociology, political science, planning, and in architecture