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    <title>International Review of Public Policy</title>
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    <description>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 donne pour objectif de faire progresser les connaissances sur les politiques publiques dans différents secteurs, pays et régions du monde</description>        
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    <title>Do hybrid democratic innovations work in autocracies? Investigating the Cases of Participatory Budgeting in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">Hybrid democratic innovations, typically introduced in democratic contexts to enhance citizen engagement and address democratic “malaise,” combine deliberative “talking” among smaller groups with broader “voting” by the public. In recent years, authoritarian regimes have also begun adopting such democratic innovations, including participatory budgeting (PB). This paper investigates whether such mechanisms serve merely as tools to reinforce authoritarian rule or whether they can genuinely empower citizens and function as hybrid democratic innovations that foster inclusion, deliberation, and impact. </span><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">Drawing on 36 in-depth interviews and secondary sources, the study identifies two key mechanisms in PB cases in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: wide programmatic scope and local-level incentives that can foster partial empowerment. These empirical cases are assessed against three dimensions of hybrid democratic innovation: inclusion, deliberation, and impact. While PB in both countries remains ...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Bakhytzhan Kurmanov</dc:creator>
    <link>http://journals.openedition.org/irpp/5793</link>
    <dc:date>2026-03-04</dc:date>
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    <title>Transnational density and transnational intensity: conceptual insights from repatriation and international evacuation policies</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">Following extreme climate events and the onset of armed conflict, countries have adopted a diverse mix of policies regarding the evacuation and repatriation of their nationals. What conceptual insights does this mix of policies offer to policy scholarship on the transnational policy process? Are all policies equally transnational? This article presents the first comprehensive review of repatriation and international evacuation policies of 45 countries, addressing issues of policy features and international norms. Building on this extensive empirical dataset, it introduces the concepts of transnational density and of transnational intensity, borrowing from the terminology used in concepts by Bauer and Knill (2012) and allowing for the exploration of variation in the transnational policy process.</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Edgardo Diaz Vega</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Jadyn Davis</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Morgan Chen</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Typhaine Joffe</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Eileah Hale</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2026-03-04</dc:date>
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    <title>Eleonora REDAELLI, Invisible Cultural Policy in America: How Public Administration Shapes Culture</title>
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      <p class="texte"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">There is an old joke: An American tourist is visiting Oxford for the first time, and on his first morning signs up for a guided walking tour. The group sees the Ashmolean Museum, the Bodleian Library, the beautiful college </span><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">quadrangles,</span><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"> and they pass beneath the Bridge of Sighs, before finally going for a pub lunch at the Lamb &#38; Flag. At lunch the tourist asks the guide: but when will we get to see the University?</span></p>
      <p class="texte"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">American cultural policy is something like our tourist’s experience. Despite observing the various publicly funded granting agencies, charitable foundations, individual donors who receive tax-preferred status, tax credit schemes to promote commercial film and television production and music recording, and local investments in cultural infrastructure, we are still left asking: but where is the cultural policy?</span></p>
      <p class="texte"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">Eleonora Redaelli is a professor in the School of Planning, Public Policy, and Management at the University of Oregon, having previously taught at many universities arou...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Michael Rushton</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2026-03-04</dc:date>
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    <title>Faces at Stakes: Comparative Insights on Facial Recognition Technologies Policy Implementation Arrangements across the EU, the US, and the PRC</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">Facial recognition technologies (FRTs) crystallize tensions between security, innovation, and fundamental rights, as their implementation follows markedly different policy arrangements across states and geopolitical blocs. This article explores how policy implementation arrangements for FRTs shape models of digital sovereignty in the European Union (EU), the United States (US), and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Through a comparative, most-different systems design, and structured content analysis of secondary sources (laws; guidance; enforcement; grey literature), this investigation operationalizes four dimensions: regulatory frameworks; actor networks; implementation and enforcement mechanisms; and sovereignty implications. Three distinctive pathways emerge, namely, the EU’s rule-and-regulator, the US’s liability-and-localism, and the PRC’s command-and-integration, which shape digital sovereignty attributes by reflecting broader security-related strategies. The article advan...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Michele Barbieri</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Laura Georgiana Macarie</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2026-03-04</dc:date>
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    <title>Unravelling the European Investment Bank’s pivot to a climate bank through its business model. Game change or name change?</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">The European Investment Bank (EIB) proclaimed its metamorphosis into a climate bank in 2019. As the financing body of the European Union, the political context surrounding the bank’s announcement has garnered significant academic interest. Despite its dual nature as both a Union body and a financial entity, the business rationale behind EIB’s shift has remained underexplored. To narrow this research gap, this paper addresses two research questions: Did business interests, in addition to political motivations, influence the EIB’s pivot to climate? And was this change truly transformational? Examining lending metrics and the business model, it argues that the rapid shift to climate, although not supported by prior strategy, provided the EIB with positioning and operational opportunities. The paper finds that the pivot, while rhetorically bold, entailed limited structural changes.<br /></span><strong><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">JEL CLASSIFICATION:</span></strong><span xml:lang="en" lang="en"> L20, L31, M10, G31, G21</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Helen Kavvadia</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2026-03-04</dc:date>
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    <title>Six Decades of Public Policy: A Personal Reflection </title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">The past 60 years have been ones of great progress for public policy in the United States, followed by substantial decline.  This period also experienced substantial development of policy theory, although that theory may not be as effective when dealing with the increased elite domination in contemporary politics.  This personal reflection on these years links these two aspects of public policy.</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>B. Guy Peters</dc:creator>
    <link>http://journals.openedition.org/irpp/6095</link>
    <dc:date>2026-03-04</dc:date>
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    <title>Academic Advisors and Bureaucrats in the Policy Process: A Comparative Analysis of Covid-19 Policies in Kenya and South Africa</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">During the COVID-19 pandemic, both academic advisors and bureaucrats were involved in Scientific Advisory Committees (SACs) or Policy Advisory Systems (PASs) in Kenya and South Africa. Despite the involvement of stakeholders, including community members, interest groups, think tanks, donors, and development partners, the academic advisors and bureaucrats were central – to varying degrees – to the policy design in each country. This study analyzed the nature and scope of the interaction between academic advisors and bureaucrats in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in the two countries. The comparative case analysis of Kenya and South Africa revealed significant bureaucratic control over the roles of SACs/PASs’, demonstrating that the extent of government control can greatly influence the nature and scope of engagement between academic advisors and bureaucrats in research, policy analysis, consultancy, and as seconded experts in emergency situations like the COVID-19 pandemic. G...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Joseph Obosi</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Gerda Van Dijk</dc:creator> 
    <dc:creator>Olivia Opere</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2026-03-04</dc:date>
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    <title>Richard ROSE, European Security: From Ukraine to Washington</title>
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      <p class="texte">Richard Rose’s <em>European Security: From Ukraine to Washington</em> offers a concise and accessible account of the evolution of European security—and insecurity—from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present-day war in Ukraine. As Professor of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde and with a distinguished career in political science, Rose draws on decades of research into British foreign policy, the European Union, Russia, and the American presidency. His expertise lends weight to this timely analysis of how past decisions continue to shape Europe’s security landscape—and what may lie ahead once the fighting in Ukraine ends.</p>
      <p class="texte">Although written prior to the 2024 US presidential election and Donald Trump’s second inauguration, the book remains relevant. Central to Rose’s argumentation is the institutional architecture of European security and its enduring legacies, focusing on how the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU) came about and how th...</p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Jannicke Thinn Fiskvik</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2026-03-04</dc:date>
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    <title>Regulatory Security Governance at the National State Level: Is Cybersecurity Governed by Experts?</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">The evolution of national security throughout history is undeniably dynamic. New domains and threats continue to emerge alongside economic, societal, and technological developments, requiring both international and national actors to adapt their governance approaches. One of the most prominent domains of contemporary security is the security of digital technologies. The emergence of these new domains brings with it alternative models of governance that shift away from traditional reliance on political authority and coercive power, emphasizing instead expertise and regulation. The European Union exemplifies this shift with its regulatory security governance model. Whether this model can be effectively applied at the nation-state level is examined through a case study of the Czech Republic’s National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NÚKIB). The study builds upon a methodological framework previously used to analyze European supranational institutions and draws primarily on the a...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Adam Janovec</dc:creator>
    <link>http://journals.openedition.org/irpp/5748</link>
    <dc:date>2026-01-05</dc:date>
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    <title>Punctuated Equilibrium in Latin American Budgets: Mapping Cross-National and Cross-Sectoral Patterns</title>
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      <p class="resume"><span xml:lang="en" lang="en">This article applies Punctuated Equilibrium Theory (PET) to analyze the dynamics of budget change in Latin America. Using functional data on central government expenditures from 14 countries over more than two decades, the study provides a descriptive assessment of whether annual budget changes follow the leptokurtic distribution predicted by PET—marked by stability interspersed with infrequent but large shifts. The methodological strategy combines descriptive statistics, formal tests of normality, and logistic regression models to examine both distributional patterns and the probability of punctuation. The findings provide robust empirical support for PET. Across all countries, budget changes deviate from a normal distribution, exhibiting high kurtosis and fat tails. Moreover, the likelihood of punctuation varies systematically across policy sectors and national contexts. Volatility is concentrated in areas such as housing and economic affairs, while functions like education and pu...</span></p>]]></description> 
    <dc:creator>Rodrigo M. Cordara</dc:creator>
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    <dc:date>2025-12-10</dc:date>
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