The study of policy entrepreneurs as agents of change has developed greatly in recent
years, supported by increasingly more sophisticated theoretical and empirical research. In …

This Element provides a critical review of existing literature on the role of ideas and
institutions in the politics of public policy with the aim of contributing to the study of the …

What stories are told in national artificial intelligence (AI) policies? Combining the novel
technique of structural topic modeling (STM) and qualitative narrative analysis, this paper …

Theories of the Policy Process provides a forum for the experts in policy process research to
present the basic propositions, empirical evidence, latest updates, and the promising future …

The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) illuminates the dynamic role of narratives in the
policy process. For more than a decade, NPF scholarship has examined the power of …

Abstract The Narrative Policy Framework has a growing number of researchers seeking to
apply the framework in policy process scholarship. This article is intended to assist those …

The last decade has seen the rise of the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) as a valuable
theoretical framework for advancing knowledge of the policy process. In this article, we …

Now in a thoroughly revised Fifth Edition, An Introduction to the Policy Process provides
students at all levels with an accessible, readable, and affordable introduction to the field of …

Researchers in public policy and public administration agree that policy integration is a
process. Nevertheless, scholars have given limited attention to political aspects that facilitate …

The spread of Covid-19 and the variety of government responses opens space for policy
learning. Traditional policy analysis tools would lead us to explain policy variation using …