🧠 Do citizens take information into account when forming an opinion about new policy proposals or do they just follow their priors?
@jannikfenger.bsky.social suggests they do by exploiting panel data on EU referendums in Denmark and the UK 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This article by M. Khosravi, H. Danaeefard & T. Babazade 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. Link in the comments! #policyprocess #publicpolicy #polisci
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...
Are school cops making schools safer or just more punitive?
New research has the answer, & it's complicated. SROs do reduce some forms of violence, they have zero effect on gun incidents. Suspensions, expulsions, & student arrests all spike. Read more: https://ow.ly/i6xZ50Z5T5S
💫 New issue alert:
Analyzing ~20,000 utterances from 154 recorded public service encounters in Germany, this study finds bureaucrats speak more complexly and emotionally to male clients than female ones. The bureaucrat's own gender? No effect.
By Laurin Friedrich & Steffen Eckhard
New Episode (#41) of JPAM’s A Closer Look podcast! 🎙️
Host Seth Gershenson speaks with Michael LaForest-Tucker about his recent JPAM article on crime deterrence in New York and what the evidence says about how policy can reduce criminal activity.
Listen here: tinyurl.com/yf3tmy7x (1/3)
Explore this Policy Studies Journal perspective on coproduction, rethinking public services as causal processes shaped jointly by governments and citizens.
By: Gregg G. Van Ryzin ( @ggvanryzin.bsky.social )
Read here: doi.org/10.1111/psj....
#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal
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Policy and Society
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This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
Have you read the latest Evidence & Policy blog?
'The crematorium of knowledge: reimagining how we change'
evidenceandpolicy.home.blog/2026/05/13/t...
@bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social @mariahkornbluh.bsky.social #policy #policymaking
'Disability lived experience and expertise: recognising the expert contributions of people with disability' by Shane Clifton et al.
New Debate Article, with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1332/1744...
@bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social @mariahkornbluh.bsky.social
Policy Studies Journal
That many public goods and services are coproduced jointly by government agencies (regular producers) together with clients and citizens (consumer producers) represents a fundamental insight, althoug...
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Join our host, Seth Gershenson, as he talks to Dr. Michael LaForest-Tucker of George Washington University about his research on a crime-deterrence intervention for parolees in New York.