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ECPR Standing Group on Public Policy
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Our aim is to provide a European perspective on public policy. Join us!
Committee: @johannahornung.bsky.social, @kariningold.bsky.social,
@jo-kuenzler.bsky.social & Vilém Novotný
Website: https://ecpr.eu/Group/public-policy
Yesterday, at our webinar, Florence Metz shared her work on policy complexity in EU Climate Policy. Thank you for your insights! 🇪🇺🌱

Florence’s input sparked great discussions, for example, on how complexity can be used to destablize a system.

Thanks to everyone who joined!

Until next time! 🌟
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Quick reminder: This is today at 4 pm CET. Looking forward to this exciting webinar! 🌱🌍🇪🇺
Coming up: the next event in our #ECPR webinar series: Florence Metz from University of Kaiserslautern-Landau will share insights on using network approaches to unpack complexity in EU climate policy. Join us! 😊

🗓: Wednesday, December 8, 15.00 BST / 16.00 CET
✍: sign up: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
December 8, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Papers
📚 Approaching Actors - Institutions - Ideas Interactions in Public Policy and Policy Process Research
🪑 Vilém Novotný & @jo-kuenzler.bsky.social
@ecprpublicpolicy.bsky.social endorsed
⌛ Deadline: 5 Jan buff.ly/oYQ97Bf

#Polisky #CallforPapers
Approaching Actors - Institutions - Ideas Interactions in Public Policy and Policy Process Research
General Conference 2026, 8 – 11 September, Jagiellonian University
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December 4, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Gentle reminder: do not miss our upcoming webinar next Monday, Dec 8, with Florence Metz 🇪🇺🌱

More infos and a link to sign up can be found in the thread below 👇🏻

Looking forward to next Monday☺️
Coming up: the next event in our #ECPR webinar series: Florence Metz from University of Kaiserslautern-Landau will share insights on using network approaches to unpack complexity in EU climate policy. Join us! 😊

🗓: Wednesday, December 8, 15.00 BST / 16.00 CET
✍: sign up: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
December 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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🔍 Looking forward to this #ECPR webinar with Florence Metz, former @pego-group.bsky.social member, on using network approaches to unpack complexity in EU climate policy 🌍

🗓 Wed, Dec 8 | 16:00 CET
Sign up: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Coming up: the next event in our #ECPR webinar series: Florence Metz from University of Kaiserslautern-Landau will share insights on using network approaches to unpack complexity in EU climate policy. Join us! 😊

🗓: Wednesday, December 8, 15.00 BST / 16.00 CET
✍: sign up: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Coming up: the next event in our #ECPR webinar series: Florence Metz from University of Kaiserslautern-Landau will share insights on using network approaches to unpack complexity in EU climate policy. Join us! 😊

🗓: Wednesday, December 8, 15.00 BST / 16.00 CET
✍: sign up: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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📘 The intro to the special issue "Victims of their own success? How successful liberal orders can become self-undermining" highlights how liberalism destabilises itself through excess, exploitation and exhaustion 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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A new interesting article by Silvia Lucciarini, Michele Santurro, and Alessandra Rimano is now available on our FirstView page. It is entitled "Measuring organizational effects on street-level bureaucrats’ discretionality: a comparative study of three Italian contexts”.
Enjoy it here: t.ly/Yo2t8
October 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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A new interesting article by Christianna Sirindah Parr is now available on our FirstView page. It is entitled "Does social media undermine trust? Institutional trust in civil society and governance institutions”.
Enjoy it here: t.ly/J86eT
October 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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🚨 #ecprgc26 Call for Sections close in 2 weeks
🎓 We invite cutting-edge Section proposals covering all areas of #PolSci
📆 8–11 Sep 2026
📍 @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social
💡 Have a Section theme in mind? ⏳ Submit proposals by Mon 10 Nov buff.ly/9SEWtYH
ECPR General Conference 2026, Jagiellonian University, 8 – 11 September 2026
Submit a Section proposal by 10 November
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October 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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📣 Our Methods School winter programme is now LIVE #ecprms

📆 16 – 27 Feb 2026
💻 Online

🔓 Join the priority booking list by Wed 29 Oct buff.ly/gMBSzZ8
✅ First pick of courses
🎓 Expert-led training on #quantitative, #qualitative, creative & mixed research methods
Methods School: 16 – 27 February 2026
Get priority access and book 48 hours early!
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October 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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🛎️New Issue is out❗️

Towards a 3⃣rd generation of #PolicyAdvisorySystems studies❓

Co-guest edited by @andreamigone.bsky.social & @howlettm.bsky.social, the new generation studies how different PAS are structured and operated—or managed—to deliver quality results👇

academic.oup.com/policyandsoc...
October 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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EARLY VIEW ALERT!

Read here:
Blocking the Poor: Status Quo Bias in Policy Congruence - doi.org/10.1111/psj....
By Mikael Persson & Anders Sundell

Policy Feedback and the 2021 Advanced Child Tax Credit - doi.org/10.1111/psj....
By Lyle Scruggs

#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal
October 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Discover this PSJ article introducing "policy dimension" as a key analytical tool to distinguish substance (policy design) from process (power in policy debates) within the NPF.

By Johanna Kuenzler & Bettina Stauffer

Read here: doi.org/10.1111/psj....

#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal
October 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Discover this PSJ article from our latest issue revealing how social cohesion, trust and civic engagement, reshapes social and pension policy design across 30 OECD countries over the period 2010 to 2020.

By Jiwon Kim

Read here: doi.org/10.1111/psj....

#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal
October 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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🧠 Are democracies trapped by their own complexity—or strengthened by it? New study from the SUPA team in @jeppjournal.bsky.social shows that openness builds resilience, not overload.
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
October 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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EARLY VIEW ALERT!

Discover this PSJ article revealing patterns of policy advice externalization across policy domains in Bulgaria, challenging traditional assumptions.

By Denitsa Marchevska

Read here:
doi.org/10.1111/psj....

#PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal
<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library
The range of actors providing input in policy making has grown, leading some to argue advice provision is increasingly externalized beyond the state. This represents a key pillar of advice scholarshi...
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October 2, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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📣 Early View

What is #GamefulGovernment

David Threlfall & Catherine Althaus study the usage of #games and #gamification in #Australian public sector practice, & what it means for processes and outcomes of policymaking 👇

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
October 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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An interesting article by @mfair.bsky.social, Ingemar Johansson Sevä and @joakimkulin.bsky.social is now available on our FirstView page. It is entitled "How do Europeans want to fight climate change? Comparing and explaining public support for a wide variety of policies”.
Enjoy it here: t.ly/ZWy5u
September 25, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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From Evidence & Policy Editors' Choice Collection:

'How perceptions of voter control affect politicians’ evaluations of expertise in the news: a survey experiment on the role of accountability beliefs' by Anina Hanimann

Read with #FreeAccess:
doi.org/10.1332/1744...

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September 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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From Evidence & Policy Editors' Choice Collection:

'Examining research systems and models for local government: a systematic review' by Emma Hock et al.

#FreeAccess until 31 October:
doi.org/10.1332/1744...

@bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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📢 The International Review of Public Policy is now on Bluesky!
A huge thank you to our editors, authors, reviewers, and the IPPA community for helping IRPP grow.
🌏All our issues are available online in open access:
bit.ly/3VS9iQW
We’d love to connect with fellow #PublicPolicy scholars — join us!
International Review of Public Policy
The International Review of Public Policy is dedicated to advance knowledge about public policy in different sectors, countries and regions of the world. – International Review of Public Policy se ...
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September 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Today, at our webinar, @laura-mas.bsky.social presented her work and provided valuable insights on policy research and crisis. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us, Laura! ☺️

And thanks to our audience for joining us and for sparking interesting discussions ✨

See you next time!
September 10, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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🔜 This week in #ECPRSeminars on Public Policy @ecprpublicpolicy.bsky.social ⤵️

@laura-mas.bsky.social will discuss how recurring crises shape #EU policymaking through policy process theories, crisis management & network analysis

💻 Wed 10 Sep 15:00–16:00 BST
✍️ Register FREE
Register now
European Consortium for Political Research
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September 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM