I hope many of you will join us for the PSJ Policy Scholar Reception at the 2026 MPSA Annual Meeting.

Friday, April 24, 6:00–8:00 PM CT
DePaul University Loop Campus
11th Floor, Gallery Lounge
1 E. Jackson Blvd, Chicago

<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Research on advocacy coalitions suggests that belief homophily—the tendency of actors to coordinate based on shared policy beliefs—drives coalition formation. However, coalition opportunity structure...

Examine this PSJ article how institutions and shared beliefs shape advocacy coalitions across democracies.

By: Keiichi Satoh, @anttigronow.bsky.social ronow, Tuomas Ylä-Anttila, @anadelicado.bsky.social, Luisa Schmidt, Pradip Swarnakar, Paul M. Wagner, Sun-Jin Yun.

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Register here (required): gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
A special thanks to George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government for their virtual hosting support!

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Agendas and Instability in American Local Politics: A Study of the Austin City Council Agenda 1900-2020 How does the itinerary of topics that the government chooses to focus on change over time at the local level? The everyday life of citizens has been directly impacted by decisions made at the local…

Explore how local agendas respond to national influence and demographic change, using a 120-year analysis of Austin City Council.

By: Peter Bjerre Mortensen and @brookenshannon.bsky.social

Read here: psjblog.net/2026/04/15/a...

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My paper w/ @elifcan.bsky.social has been selected as the Best Public Policy Paper Prize at the 2025 @ecpr.bsky.social European Consortium for Political Research Conference.

"Narrative power in electoral autocracies" is published in @psjeditor.bsky.social: lnkd.in/daENh7B8

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Agendas and Instability in American Local Politics: A Study of the Austin City Council Agenda 1900-2020 How does the itinerary of topics that the government chooses to focus on change over time at the local level? The everyday life of citizens has been directly impacted by decisions made at the local…

Gratitude to the @psjeditor.bsky.social team for featuring my article "Agendas and Instability in American Local Politics" with Peter Mortensen in their blog! psjblog.net/2026/04/15/a...

New work out today at @psjeditor.bsky.social:

Using a survey experiment fielded with civil servants from 9 US states, Dan Butler and I find bureaucrats are less responsive to term-limited chief executives

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The submission deadline was extended to April 22 following requests and to accommodate Easter breaks. sites.google.com/view/confpol...

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<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Policy subsystems are comprised of competing advocacy coalitions, in which public and private political actors with shared belief systems learn from each other and coordinate their strategies in the ....

Analyze this PSJ article on the emergence of advocacy coalitions, revealing how policy subsystems evolve through stages of problem discovery, differentiation, and consolidation.

By: Kristijan Garic & @leifeld.bsky.social

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<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Though spillovers have been initially described in the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF), we know little about how to conceptualize and measure them. To investigate spillovers, we draw on the case of ...

Assess this PSJ article on spillovers in the Multiple Streams Framework, showing how COVID-19 linked public health and agriculture to open policy windows for change.

By: @anneparth.bsky.social, Malte Möck, Colette Vogeler, & @jo-kuenzler.bsky.social.

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Does the Implementation Status of Gender Provisions Affect the Implementation of a Peace Agreement? Evidence from Colombia’s 2016 Peace Agreement Implementation Process Consider these questions: How involved are women in the negotiation and implementation of peace agreements? Are the rights and well-being of women well-reflected in peace programs? The protection o…

Explore how gender provisions are implemented in peace agreements, and why their success is crucial for overall outcomes, using the Colombian Peace Agreement 2016.

By: Madhav Joshi

Read here: psjblog.net/2026/04/08/d...

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<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Government attention matters for nonprofit management and nonprofit-government interactions. This study focuses on legislative attention, an important yet less-studied aspect of government attention ...

Examine this PSJ article on how legislative attention enhances nonprofit efficiency, revealing a complementary relationship between government focus and nonprofit performance.

By: Yuhao Ba, Jessica Berrett, & @professajay.bsky.social

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<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Scholars of agenda setting have tried to untangle the relationship between the president and Congress. However, many studies treat Congress as if the House of Representatives and the Senate had one u...

Explore this PSJ article on agenda-setting dynamics, demonstrating presidential dominance while uncovering distinct relationships with the House and Senate across policy areas.

By: @rebeccaeissler.bsky.social & Paul E. Rutledge

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Algorithmic Meta-Capital and the Narrative Policy Framework The role of algorithims in influencing and channeling the type of information that people have access to today is unprecedented. Algorithimic tools such as social media platforms, AI recommendation…

New on PSJ blog: Explore this article integrating algorithmic meta-capital into the Narrative Policy Framework to show how algorithms structure policy narratives and shape public opinion.

By: Xiaoxu Ling and Siyuan Yan

Read here: psjblog.net/2026/04/01/a...

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Author photos: Tang, M., & Yu, J

<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Scholars have widely recognized the impacts of the professional experiences of policymakers on policy innovations, but have paid little attention to how such impacts manifest in the composition chang...

Discover this PSJ article on how freshman legislators drive policy innovation, highlighting how incumbency can hinder the adoption of new policies.

By: Jia Chen, Min Tang, & Jinhai Yu

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Here's the full citation for the recent PSJ editorial introduction. There are no page numbers. Just the "eLocator" info toward the end. This is part of a new publishing scheme called "continuous publication." It's a change we’ll all need to get used to soon.

<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library Click on the article title to read more.

Excited to share the editorial introduction for the latest issue of PSJ, which briefly covers 20 new articles published along with some PSJ operations. I appreciate the efforts of all the coauthors. It's free to read. Thank you! @psjeditor.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/psj....

We are proud to see scholarship published in PSJ recognized by the Section on Chinese Public Administration.

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<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library A core literature in the field of public policy seeks to understand whether decentralized collective action institutions will emerge to provide public goods. While some studies examine how they perfo...

Can collective action outperform the state in providing public goods? This PSJ article compares state agencies and watershed nonprofits tackling abandoned mine drainage in Pennsylvania.

By: Max Harleman & Jeremy G. Weber

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Discover how relationships among actors, network structures, and inter organizational dynamics shape policy processes across diverse contexts in our Policy Theories Virtual Issue on Policy Networks

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Linking Policy Design and Diffusion In Policy Paradox, Deborah Stone (1989) argues that the work of policy analysis is too often divorced from the politics of the democratic process. To truly understand policies and their effects, on…

Explore this PSJ blog post on how policy design choices shape diffusion by influencing complexity, revealing how politics drives adoption speed and reach.

By Joshua M. Jansa and Daniel J. Mallinson

Read here: psjblog.net/2026/03/25/l...

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PSJ 54(1) is now available, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15410072..., featuring 20 articles spanning institutional design, agenda-setting, coalition dynamics, and more!

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Recent research in @psjeditor.bsky.social by Qian Zhang, @cmwitko.bsky.social, and Verasight’s chief data scientist @peterenns.bsky.social analyzed the content of more than 600,000 survey questions fielded from 1980 to 2015 archived at the @ropercenter.bsky.social.

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How do political coalitions take shape? And how do they hold together? Is it just a matter of shared beliefs?

New #PROTEMO research by @msmaor.bsky.social published in @psjeditor.bsky.social offers answers: www.protemo.eu/news/protemo...

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Dr. Arnzen's Research & Recent Publication on the Administrative Burdens of Voting An introduction to some of my research and my new article out in Policy Studies Journal on how the "costs" of voting matter differently for individuals of different levels of education

The first of my dissertation papers is officially out in @psjeditor.bsky.social! I started this paper in 2023, so I am happy it’s finally out! 🎉

I wrote about it in this post for the North Central College Political Science Bulletin!

I have an article out in print at @psjeditor.bsky.social on administrative burdens, deservingness, and race ...

Assessing the Effect of Deservingness Cues on Tolerance for Administrative Burdens

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<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library How can governments sustain compliance improvements when institutions falter and ad hoc enforcement fades? This study introduces “regularized campaigns” as an institutional innovation that combines t...

This article introduces “regularized campaigns,” showing how enforcement waves close compliance gaps and reshape incentives in environmental governance.

By: Shiran Victoria Shen, Qi Wang, & Bing Zhang

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We’re hosting a Policy Scholar Reception at MPSA on Friday, April 24, from 6–8 PM at the DePaul Center (Loop Campus), 11th Floor Gallery Lounge (1 E. Jackson Blvd, Chicago), just a few blocks from the Palmer House. Please feel free to stop by! Hope to see many of you there! @psjeditor.bsky.social