5th International Conference on Public Policy

This week is the 5th International Conference on Public Policy. As part of this online conference we have created this virtual space so that we can connect with everyone we would have at the physical event. Keep reading for highlights from our journals, including free article collections from Policy & Politics and Evidence & Policy. 

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Public Policy collection

Enjoy free access to this selection of articles. The collection includes articles from Evidence & Policy and Policy & Politics. The collection is free to read until 31 July and includes: 

Evidence & Policy 

The new evidence-based policy: public participation between ‘hard evidence’ and democracy in practice [Open Access]
Helen Pallett

Taking a policy process approach to illuminate the political nature of disability policymaking
Leanne Giordono

Implementation of shared decision-making in healthcare policy and practice: a complex adaptive systems perspective
Sarah Munro

To what extent does evidence support decision making during infectious disease outbreaks? A scoping literature review [Open Access]
Andreea Salajan 

Making evidence and policy in public health emergencies: lessons from COVID-19 for adaptive evidence-making and intervention [Open Access]
Kari Lancaster, Tim Rhodes and Marsha Rosengarten 

Policy & Politics

Growth and gaps: a meta-review of policy diffusion studies in the American states
Daniel J. Mallinson

Drivers of health policy adoption: a political economy of HIV treatment policy
Matthew Kavanagh, Kalind Parish and Somya Gupta

How public leaders can promote public value through co-creation
Eva Sørensen, John Bryson and Barbara Crosby

A theoretical framework for studying the co-creation of innovative solutions and public value
Jacob Torfing et al.

Co-creation: the new kid on the block in public governance
Christopher Ansell and Jacob Torfing 

Collaborative governance and innovation in public services settings
Nicolette van Gestel and Sanne Grotenbreg

Highlights from Policy & Politics  

Policy & Politics is a world-leading journal committed to advancing our understanding of the dynamics of policy-making and implementation. 

Introducing the new Policy & Politics editors 

Please join us in welcoming Dr Oscar Berglund, Professor Claire Dunlop, and Professor Chris Weible as Co-editors of Policy & Politics. The new editorial team's term started earlier this year with a new editorial statement. Read about the new team’s plans for the journal on the Policy & Politics blog. 

Highly Cited Article collection

Policy & Politics' has achieved its highest ever Impact Factor of 3.75, placing it firmly in the upper quartile of international journals in the Political Science category of the Journal Citation reports. We are celebrating this with a free collection of Highly Cited Articles. The Highly Cited Article collection is free to read until 31 August, and includes:

The lessons of policy learning: types, triggers, hindrances and pathologies [Open Access]
Claire A. Dunlop and Claudio M. Radaelli 

Brokering behaviour change: the work of behavioural insights experts in government
Joram Feitsma  

Can the governance paradigm survive the rise of populism?
Gerry Stoker

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Virtual issue Central-local relations

This virtual issue feature some of the latest research on central-local relations from a range of different perspectives and three quite different political systems. This virtual issue is free to access until 9 July and includes:

The limits of localism: a decade of disaster on homelessness in England [Open Access]
Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Hal Pawson and Beth Watts

Rescaling education policy: central‐local relations and the politics of scale in England and Sweden
Ingela K. Naumann and Colin Crouch

Mega-events and regional identities: the 2010 Asian Games language controversy [Open Access]
Zhonghua Gu,  Bart Wissink and Yuan Hu

Read a full exploration of these articles on the Policy & Politics blog. 

You might also enjoy the free Highlights collection, featuring the editors' top articles from recent issues, and our free sample issue. 

Recent special issues 

Beyond nudge: advancing the state-of-the-art of behavioural public policy and administration 
Guest edited by Benjamin Ewert, Kathrin Loer and Eva Thomann 

Policy-making as designing: the added value of design thinking for public administration and public policy 
Guest edited by Arwin van Buuren, Jenny M Lewis and B Guy Peters 

Want to learn more about Policy & Politics? Sign up to the journal's mailing list and follow @policy_politics on Twitter.

Highlights from the Evidence & Policy 

Evidence & Policy is the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to comprehensive and critical assessment of the relationship between research evidence and the concerns of policy makers and practitioners, as well as researchers.

Highly Cited Article collection

This year Evidence & Policy's Journal Impact Factor grew by 26% to 1.836. To celebrate this acheivement we have created a free collection of Highly Cited Articles. The Highly Cited Article collection is free to read until 31 August, and includes;

Reflections on the Researcher-in-Residence model co-producing knowledge for action in an Integrated Care Organisation: a mixed methods case study using an impact survey and field notes [Open Access]
Felix Gradinger et al. 

Rethinking knowledge translation for public health policy [Open Access]
Patrick Fafard and Steven J. Hoffman

EKLIPSE: engaging knowledge holders and networks for evidence-informed European policy on biodiversity and ecosystem services [Open Access]
Allan Watt et al. 

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Editors' Choice collection 

‘Maybe we can turn the tide’: an explanatory mixed-methods study to understand how knowledge brokers mobilise health evidence in low- and middle-income countries [Open Access]
Theresa C. Norton et al

The legitimacy of experts in policy: navigating technocratic and political accountability in the case of global poverty governance [Free]
Justyna Bandola-Gill

What do advocates want from policy research? Evidence from elite surveys [Free]
Jake Haselswerdt and Elizabeth Rigby

You might also enjoy our Open Access Most Read collection and our free sample issue.   

Recent special issues

The many faces of disability in evidence for policy and practice
Guest edited by Carol Rivas, Ikuko Tomomatsu and David Gough

Opening up evidence-based policy: exploring citizen and service user expertise [Open Access]
Guest edited by Ellen Stewart, Jennifer Smith-Merry and Marc Geddes

Co-creative approaches to knowledge production and implementation [Open Access]
Guest edited by Allison Metz, Annette Boaz and Glenn Robert

Want more from Evidence & Policy? Sign up to the mailing list and follow @EvidencePolicy on Twitter.    

Highlights from the European Journal of Politics and Gender

The European Journal of Politics and Gender (EJPG) publishes international, cutting-edge research in the broad field of politics and gender. EJPG is endorsed by the Gender and Politics Standing Group of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). EJPG is firmly embedded in global politics and gender scholarship, its scope is not limited to Europe. It aims to advance gender and politics research in all its diversity.

Gender expertise in global governance: contesting the boundaries of a field
Rahel Kunz, Elisabeth Prügl and Hayley Thompson

Albion lost, paradise regained? Gender+ equality policies in the European Union 27
Anna van der Vleuten

O sister, where art thou? Theory and evidence on female participation at citizen assemblies
Marlène Gerber, Hans-Peter Schaub and Sean Mueller 

Recent special issues

Feminist Alliances: The Ideas, Practices and Politics of Intersectional Solidarity
Guest Editors: Rossella Ciccia, Donatella della Porta and Elena Pavan

Including;
Under different umbrellas: intersectionality and alliances in US feminist politics [free]
Myra Marx Ferree

Unpacking intersectional solidarity: dimensions of power in coalitions [free]
Rossella Ciccia and Conny Roggeband 

The (re)politicisation of gender in Western Europe
Tarik Abou-Chadi, Magdalena Breyer and Theresa Gessler

Beyond the binary: new approaches to measuring gender in political science research
Guest Edited by Amy C. Alexander, Catherine Bolzendahl and Lena Wängnerud
Including;

Are all politics masculine? Gender socialised personality traits and diversity in political engagement
Hilde Coffé and Catherine Bolzendahl

Want more from EJPG? Sign up to the mailing list and follow @EJPGjournal on Twitter.    

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Global Discourse 
Themed issue: Understanding the Politics of Fear: COVID-19, Crises and Democracy. The follwing articles from the issue are free to access until 31 July 

Crisis communication and crisis management during COVID-19
Ruth Wodak  

Lockdown: a case study in how to lose trust and undermine compliance
Paul Faulkner

Lockdown, breakdown and trust: a reply to Paul Faulkner
Philip Pettit

Fear and the importance of race-based data in COVID-19 policy implementation
Leland Harper

Find out more about the journal and follow the Global Discourse on Twitter.

Journal of Public Finance and Public Choice  
Editors' Choice collection, featuring of our Editors' top articles from recent issues, including:

Fiscal forecast manipulations and electoral results: evidence from Portuguese municipalities
Mamadou Boukari and Francisco José Veiga

Health politics? Determinants of US states’ reactions to COVID-19
Etienne Farvaque, Hira Iqbal and Nicolas Ooghe

The political economy of Vermont’s anti-fracking movement
Alexandre R. Scarcioffolo, Shishir Shakya and Joshua C. Hall  

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