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 👇
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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 👇
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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 👇
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#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 👇
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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 👇
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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 👇
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#Scopus #CiteScore 2025 is out ❗️
@policysociety.bsky.social ranks 1⃣st among #PublicAdministration & 2⃣nd among #PoliticalScienceandInternationalRelations journals 🎊
We sincerely thank our authors, reviewers, and readers 👇
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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 👇
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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 👇
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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 👇
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