Conference on Policy Process Research

Panel 1: Policy Processes in Autocracies 1: Policy Actors
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Chair: Caroline Schlaufer (in-person)
Discussant: Vera Axyonova (virtually) and Annemieke van den Dool (in-person)

1. Vera Axyonova, “Thinking for the State, Writing for the People? Kazakhstan’s think tanks in policymaking processes” (virtually)
2. Jiaqi Lu, “Decarbonizing the Dragon: Policy Communities and the Power of Networks” (virtually)
3. Wendy Leutert, “Policy Collaging: Transnationalizing Analysis of Authoritarian Policymaking with Evidence from China” (in-person)

Panel 2: Queering Public Policy Research
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Chair: Claire Dunlop (in-person), Diego Galego (in-person), Chris Surfus (virtually)
Discussant: Hope Yohn (in-person)

1. Claire Dunlop, “Queer(y)ing Advisory Governance: Policy Allyship and the UK’s LGBT+ Advisory Panel” (in-person)
2. Diego Galego, “Social and economic costs of LGBTQ phobia in Mexico: An Exploratory Research” (in-person)
3. Chris Surfus, “Methodological Innovations, LGBTQ+ Statistics, and Public Policy Implications” (virtually)

Panel 3: Overcoming Challenges around Rules, Implementation, and Compliance
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Chair: David Carter (in-person)
Discussant: Sreeja Nair (in-person)

1. Bernardo Rangoni, Claudio Radaelli, “Opening up rules: Three views of the cathedral” (virtually)
2. Maayan Davidovitz, “Vulnerability in Street-Level Work: A Conceptual Framework and Implications for Policy Implementation” (in-person)
3. Temitope Musowo, Remi Aiyede, “Policy Ecology, Engagement and Implementation of Lagos Road Traffic Law” (in-person)
4. Ambrish Bombade, Subodh Wagle, “Investigating Issue of Non-Payment of Users’ Charges using Lens of Policy Compliance Theory: Study of Nine Villages in Maharashtra, India” (in-person)

Panel 4: Innovations Social Identities, Belief Systems and Representation
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Chair:  Annica Sandström (virtually), Chris Weible (in-person)
Discussant: Tim Heinmiller (in-person)

1. Anna Crawford, Chris Weible, “Advocacy Coalitions and Representation in the Abortion Policy Subsystem: Toward a Framework of Representation for Coalitions” (in-person)
2. Kayla Gabehart, “Attention, Uncertainty, and Conflict: An Analysis of Secondary Belief Discourse in Agricultural Policy” (in-person)
3. Nils Bandelow, Ilana Schröder, Gaia Taffoni, “Who Speaks What to Power? Unraveling the Use of Evidence to Address Grand Challenges” (in-person)

Panel 5: Narratives in Times of Polarization
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Chair: Aaron Smith-Walter (in-person)
Discussant: Deserai Crow (in-person)

1. Melissa Merry, “Policy Narratives of Climate Change Conservatives: Bridging a Political Divide?” (in-person)
2. Bettina Stauffer, “Stop hate speech: the role of policy narratives in depolarizing public debates” (virtually)
3. Aaron Smith-Walter, “Campus-Based Recycling in Response to the 2022 Textile Disposal Ban in Massachusetts: A Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) Exploration” (in-person)
4. Rachel McGovern, Hilda Broqvist, Cassandra Inman, “Narrating the ‘Loser’: Introducing the Loser Character archetype to the Narrative Policy Framework” (in-person)

Panel 6: Applying policy process theories to study the regulatory and policy-making processes of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies (PART I)
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Chair: Juan David Gutierrez (in-person)
Discussant: Johannes Himmelreich (in-person)

1. Pedro Robles, Daniel Mallinson, “Policy Emulation and Learning: The Diffusion of Autonomous Vehicle Policy in the American States” (in-person)
2. Nicholas Croce, “Chatbot Democracy” (in-person)
3. Ridwan Islam Sifat, “Digital government and E-service: Challenges Faced in Expanding Public Service Access” (virtually)

Panel 7: Understanding the Policy Process in Africa: Contexts, Ideas, Actors, and Incentives
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Chair: Mohammed Ibrahim Younie-Gyabu (in-person)
Discussant: Alex Osei-Kojo (in-person)

1. Benjamin Adu Gyamfi, Comfort Tiwaa Kwarteng, “Understanding Policy Change in Africa: The Case of Ghana’s Value-Added Tax Policy in 1994” (in-person)
2. Ishmael Ayanoore, “The Dynamic Equilibrium of State Effectiveness: The factors eroding and supporting Ghana’s ‘State within a State’ – the Volta River Authority”
3. Kate Pruce, “Re-shaping policy from below: the politics of implementing social cash transfers in Zambia” (virtual)
4. Abiba Yayah, “An Assessment of Ghana’s Education Strategic Plan: A Policy Feedback Perspective” (in-person)

Panel 8: Analyzing Policy Feedback Effects 
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Chair: Serena Laws (in-person)
Discussant: David P. Dolowitz (virtually)

1. Jack Garigliano, “The public effects of private subsidies in the US welfare state” (virtual; Illinois)
2. Andrew Trexler, Marayna Martinez, Mallory SoRelle, “More Than a Feeling: Policy Feedback Effects of Pandemic Election Reforms” (virtually)
3. Vanita Singh, Harsh Mittal, Purba Barua, “Power, Status, and Identity of ASHA workers in India? Has Covid-19 pandemic response opened up new political configurations?” (virtual)
4. Serena Laws, “Mechanisms for Policy Feedback for the Earned Income Tax Credit” (in-person)

Panel 9: The Policy Process from the Punctuated Equilibrium Perspective
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Chair: E.J. Fagan (in-person)
Discussant: E.J. Fagan (in-person)

1. Jarret Deaton, “International Conflict Processing and PET Dynamics” (in-person)
2. J. Andrew Sinclair, “Administrative Accountability, Punctuated Equilibrium, and State Executive Branch Elections” (in-person)
3. Annemieke Van den Dool, “Punctuated Equilibrium in China: A Text Reuse Approach to Measuring Policy Change” (in-person)
4. Jialin Li, “COVID-19: Disrupting the Legislative Path in China?” (virtually)

Panel 10: New Approaches to Policy Capacity and Advice Systems
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Chair: Giliberto Capano (in-person)
Discussant: Jen Schneider (in-person)

1. Andrea Pritoni, Stefania Profeti, Giliberto Capano, “Does bureaucratic analytical capacity really matter in governmental performance? A conjunctural analysis of the quality of governance in 15 Italian regions” (in-person)
2. Andrea Lippi, Sabrina Bandera, Rosa Di Gioia, Maria Tullia Galanti, Andrea Terlizzi, “Advising by contingency. The Italian policy advisory system from cabinets to networks” (virtually)
3. Ronojoy Sen, “Under the Radar: An analysis of India’s parliamentary committees and their role in shaping policy” (in-person)
4. Andrea Migone, Michael Howlett, “Hirschman 2.0 or What Makes a Good Policy Advice System? A Theory of Policy Advice System Quality & Capacity” (in-person)

Panel 11: Coalitions and Networks in the Policy Process
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Chair: Linlang He (in-person)
Discussant: Adam Henry (in-person)

1. Richard Barton, Saba Siddiki, Juan Uribe-Quintero, “California Coalitions: Policy Subsystems Before and After Top-Two Election Reform” (in-person)
2. Victor Clavellina, “On the structure of decision making in advocacy coalitions” (in-person)
3. Gauthier Fally, “How Issue Networks Mediate Government Attention and Information Processing: The Case of the Internet Regulation since the 1980s explored through Congressional Hearings” (in-person)
4. Aerang Nam, “Experts and Policy Knowledge in Offshore Wind Policymaking: A Statistical Network Analysis of Discourse in Testimonies and Newspapers” (in-person)

Panel 12: Crime, Deviance, and Justice
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Chair: Tim Heinmiller (in-person)
Discussant: Creed Tumilson (in-person)

1. Hope Yohn, Sheila Huss, “Advocacy coalitions in criminal justice: An analysis of state legislative testimony on police accountability and capital punishment” (in-person)
2. Jeraldine Alicia del Cid Castro, “Victims, organizations and advocacy coalitions to confront enforced disappearances in Northern Mexico”
3. Ryan Lofaro, Kaila Witkowski, William Mase, Robert Bohler, “Advocacy Coalitions, “Deviant” Target Populations, and What Counts as Knowledge: Including People in Recovery from Substance Use Disorder in the Policy Process” (in-person)
4. Simone Grannsjo, “Expert Discourse and Policy Knowledge in Sweden’s Public Debate on the ‘Quran Burning Crisis’: An Advocacy Coalition Framework Analysis” (in-person)

Panel 13: Investigating Collaborative and Polycentric Governance Structures 
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Chair: Tomas Olivier (in-person)
Discussant: Tomas Olivier (in-person)

1. Emma Sheetz, Tanya Heikkila, Mark Lubell, Tara Pozzi, “Finding agreement in the California Delta Science Enterprise: Lessons for polycentric governance” (in-person)
2. Santiago Quintero, “The bureaucratic politics of polycentric environmental governance” (in-person)
3. Graham Ambrose, Mark Imperial, “Exploring transitions form provision services to production services in collaborative governance settings” (in-person)   
4. Alejandra Medina, “Who are you going to call? A longitudinal analysis of the evolution and nature of collaborative relationships across time” (in-person)

Panel 14: Emotional Stakes in the Policy Process
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Chair: Allegra Fullerton (in-person)
Discussant: Melissa Merry (in-person)

1. Nikolina Klatt, “Digital Sentiments: The Role of Emotion in U.S. Politicians’ Twitter Narratives on Abortion” (virtual; Germany)
2. Antoine Lemor, Eric Montpetit, “Science or Emotions? Exploring the Role of Uncertainty, Emotions and Scientific Discourse during the COVID-19 Pandemic” (in-person)
3. Emily St. Denny, “Studying the place and role of emotion in evidence-informed policymaking: Insights from French perinatal public health” (in-person)
4. Joseph Charles Van Matre, Isabel Krakoff, Allegra Fullerton, “Emotions on the agenda? A Natural Language Processing approach to identifying partisan framing of climate change denialism, fatalism, and solutions in US Congressional speeches” (virtual; Netherlands)

Panel 15: How Narratives Frame Policy and Politics
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Chair: Evangelia Petridou (in-person)
Discussant: Elizabeth Shanahan (in-person)

1. Saroj Kumar Aryal, “Personality cult of Narendra Modi: A review of Indian Media on Glorifying the Prime Minister” (in-person)
2. Arjola Balilaj, Ryan Lofaro, Alka Sapat, “Narrative Evolution in Times of Crisis: Analyzing Gubernatorial Narratives on Vaccines and Pharmaceutical Companies During the COVID-19 Pandemic” (in-person)
3. Crystal Soderman, Rachel McGovern, Alex Osei-Kojo, Michael Jones, Kristin Olofsson, “Media Framing and Narrative Sentiment: Exploring How the Tone of Media Narratives are Shaped by the Stories They Tell” (in-person)
4. Mark Hand, Megan Morris, Varun Rai, “The role of policy narrators during crisis: A micro-level analysis of the sourcing, synthesizing, and sharing of policy narratives in rural Texas” (in-person)

Panel 16: Applying policy process theories to study the regulatory and policy-making processes of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies (PART II)
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Chair: Juan David Gutierrez (in-person)
Discussant: Johannes Himmelreich (in-person)

1. Eske Montoya Martinez van Egerschot, “Navigating the Global AI Regulatory Landscape: Lessons from European Experience” (virtually)
2. Juan David Gutierrez, Sarah Muñoz-Cadena, Sofia Carrerá, “When the algorithm becomes an issue: Algorithmic regulation and agenda-setting processes in Chile and Colombia” (in-person)
3. Nicolás Arízaga, “Artificial Intelligence and Public Trust in the United States Policy Process” (in-person)
4. Maria Lungu, “Comparative Analysis of AI Regulatory Narratives: Unveiling Strategies, Actors, and Global Implications” (in-person)”

Panel 17: Innovations in Discourse and Stories in Polarizing Policy Debates
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Chair: Megan Warnement Wrobel (in-person)
Discussant: Clare Brock (in-person)

1. Johanna Hornung, Manuel Fischer, Tanja Puran, Josefine Wyser, “Science, Policy, and the Next Pandemic – Discourse Dynamics on Antimicrobial Resistances” (in-person)
2. Paul Jo, Jennifer Dodge, “Discourse Analysis in the Planning Process of NY’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act” (in-person)
3. Cheyenne Black, “Navigating Cosmic Discourse: Evolution of Coalitions and Discourse Networks in U.S. Space Policy” (in-person)
4. Serena Hoermann, “Stories communities tell: How discourse matters in resilience policy and planning” (in-person)

Roundtable 1: The Future of Scholarship on Complex Governance Systems
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Chair: Ramiro Berardo

Participants: Tanya Heikkila, Paul Cairney, Mark Lubell, Danielle McLaughlin, Jack Mewhirter, Tomas Olivier, Karin Ingold

Roundtable 2: The Role of a Policy Scholar and Political Attacks on Academia
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Chair: Oscar Berglund

Participants: Oscar Berglund, Claire Dunlop, Jen Schneider, Jamila Michener, Raul Pacheco-Vega, Michael Jones

Roundtable 3: Evolution and Debates in Theories of Policy Process and Policy Analysis in Latin America (1960-2023)
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Chair: Alejandro M. Estevez, Henrique Campos de Oliveira

Participants: Julian Bertranou, Eduardo Grin, Natalia Guimaraes Duarte Satyro

Roundtable 4: The History of PSJ – An Editors’ Retrospective View
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Chair: Aaron Smith-Walter

Participants: Geoboo Song, Michael Jones, Edella Schlager, Chris Weible, Hank Jenkins-Smith

Panel 18: The Politics and Policy of Gender
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Chair: Emily St. Denny (in-person)
Discussant: Giulia Mariani (in-person), Sonja Blum (virtual)

1. Morgan Farrar, Camille Gilmore, Geoboo Song, “Feminism on the Right: Exploring the Intersection of Gender, Ideology, and Politics in the United States” (in-person)
2. Isaac Sederbaum, “Moral Panic! At the Disco: Anti-Transgender Legislation 2014-2023” (in-person)
3. Farzana Sharmin, “God and Gender in the Multiple Streams Framework: Judiciary as a Policy Entrepreneur in Bangladesh” (in-person)
4. Emily St. Denny, “The Gender(ed) Politics of Menstrual Inequality Reduction: The Case of The Scottish Period Products Act (2021)” (in-person)

Panel 19: Science, Policy Advice, and Policy Processes
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Chair: Jen Schneider (in-person)
Discussant: Juniper Katz (in-person)

1. Caroline Schlaufer, Celine Mavrot, Johanna Hornung, Caspar Hirschi, “The legitimacy of scientific policy advice in crises” (in-person)
2. Ben Galloway, Nataliia Borozdina, Geoboo Song, “Unleashing the Power of Biologics: Exploring the Governance and Regulation of Membrane-Based Virus Purification (MVP) Technologies” (in-person)
3. Carolina Velandia Hernández, “Epistemic Legitimacy and Advocacy Coalition Framework” (in-person)
4. Satish Kumar, Krishnan Narayanan, “Policy analysis of agricultural and nutrition disconnect in Indian agricultural and nutritional policy design” (in-person)

Panel 20: Governing Sustainability & Resilience
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Chair: Nils Bandelow (in-person)
Discussant: Kristin Olofsson (in-person)

1. Nick Anguelov, “When a well-meaning policy designed to tackle poverty causes long-term environmental harm: Evidence of incentivizing unequal ecological exchange in fashion” (in-person)
2. Kris Hartley, Glen Kuecker, “Epistemic Panic and the Policy Process: Technocracy Old and New in the UN Sustainability Agenda” (in-person)
3. Giovanni Esposito, Andrea Lippi, Andrea Terlizzi, “Socio-Technical Policy Instruments and Legitimation Processes. A Comparative Analysis of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans in Belgium, Italy, and Spain” (virtually)
4. Matthew Nowlin, “Sea level rise as a collective action problem: A comparison of three regions” (in-person)

Panel 21: Extensions and Innovations in Multiple Stream
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Chair: Paul Cairney (virtual), Mark Hand (in-person)
Discussant: Camilla Bakken Øvald (virtual)

1. Oscar Berglund, “Civil Disobedience as Focusing Events” (in-person)
2. Kristin Taylor, Mara Crawford, “Rising to the Top of the Policy Agenda: Analysis of the Political Viability of the Ike Dike for Protecting Texas’ Gulf Coast” (in-person)
3. Rama Mohana R Turaga, Harsh Mittal, “Public Interest Litigation in India as an institutional context: Multiple Streams, courts, and the policy process” (in-person)
4. Mark Hand, Colin Birkhead, “Bricolage and beyond: Bringing modern entrepreneurship theories to bear on policy entrepreneurship” (in-person)

Panel 22: New Ideas for Addressing Challenges in Policy & Regulatory Design
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Chair: David Carter (in-person)
Discussant: David Carter (in-person)

1. Bernardo Rangoni, “Restorative regulation? Broken trust, rule re-design, and repaired trust” (virtually)
2. Joshua Basseches, “Utility Sector Structure as a Poorly Understood Factor in U.S. State-Level Renewable Energy Policy Design” (in-person)
3. Arzu Ulusoy Shipstone, “Policy Design in an Increasingly Complex World: The Case of the Fourth Industrial Revolution” (virtual; Singapore)
4. Ishani Mukherjee, Panchali Guha, “Unpacking policy-taker motivations and the responsiveness to policy instruments” (in-person)

Panel 23: How Policy Feedback Works (And Doesn’t)
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Chair: Jamila Michener
Discussant: Mallory SoRelle (virtually)

1. Adrienne Davidson, Jenna Quelch, Linda White, “Examining the Policy Feedback Effects of Complex Policy Systems: Policy Paradigms, Instrument Choice, and Varieties of Child Care Investments in Australia, Canada, and Germany” (in-person)
2. Reut Marciano, “Actors, mechanisms and policy fields in policy feedback research: a systematic (PRISMA based) review” (virtual)
3. J. Andrew Sinclair, “Political Reform and Education: The Limits of Policy Feedback” (in-person) 

Panel 24: How Policy Stakeholders Learn
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Chair: Tanya Heikkila (in-person)
Discussant: Claudio Radaelli, Claire Dunlop (in-person)

1. Nicolas Didier, “Did we learn? Lessons from a knowledge-oriented reform to a Public Employment Services in Chile” (in-person)
2. Jason Pudlo, “Conditions for disaster learning and failure” (virtually; North Carolina)
3. Emma Scheetz, Tanya Heikkila, “Policy Learning Within and Across Coalitions: Insights from a Statewide Housing Policy Debate in Colorado” (in-person)
4. Kaitlin Peach, Hank Jenkins-Smith, “Exploring the Role of Disinformation in the Policy Process” (in-person)
5. Stefani Langehennig, Zach del Rosario, “Comparing Frequentist and Bayesian Approaches in Policy Learning” (virtually)

Panel 25: New Ideas in Policy Process Theories and Methods (Part 1)
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Chair: Alex Marsh (in-person)
Discussant: Adam Wellstead (in-person)

1. Tejendra Pratap Gautam, “Conceptualising power in policy process theories” (virtually)
2. Jörgen Sparf, “Process Philosophical Ontologies in Policy Process Theory: Towards, or Away from, Common Ground?” (in-person)
3. Alex Marsh, “The past, present and future of housing policy in Great Britain: co-evolution, policy and governance” (in-person)
4. Claire Mackevicius, Phoebe Lin, Sheridan Fuller, Tre Wells, Therese Bonomo, “Not afraid of “commitments”: Investigating lexical versus substantive commitments for resourcing a guaranteed income from pilot into policy” (in-person)

Panel 26: (Dis)Information, Agendas, and Policy Change
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Chair: J. Andrew Sinclair (in-person)
Discussant: Holly Peterson (in-person)

1. Annelise Russell, “Information is free, but filtering is costly: Congressional investment in reference resources” (in-person)
2. Brandon Charles, “Punctuated Equilibrium in Electric Utility Regulation” (in-person)
3. Brooke Shannon, “Bubbling Up: How local government affects state energy policy” (in-person)
4. Mary Anderson, Jonathan Lewallen, “First Ladies Policy Agendas” (in-person)

Panel 27: Culture, Beliefs, and Attitudes – Do They Matter for Policy?
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Chair: Brendon Swedlow (virtually)
Discussant: Annica Sandström (virtually), Sandra Plümer (in-person)

1. Nataliia Borozdina, Geoboo Song, Ben Galloway, “Cultural Theory Cross-State Validity: The Cases of the United States and the Republic of Korea” (in-person)
2. Cheyenne Black, Kaitlin Peach, “Measurement of Deep Core Beliefs Using Cultural Theory and the Advocacy Coalition Framework in Nuclear Security Policy” (in-person)
3. Brendon Swedlow, Rob Robinson, Meng Yuan, “Bringing Courts into Policy Studies and Policy Theory: Grid-Group Cultural Theory and the US Supreme Court” (virtual; Illinois)
4. Shawn Drake, Iris Geva-May, “Susceptibility of Policy Analysis to Cultural Biases” (in-person)

Panel 28: Policy Processes in Autocracies 2: Policy Agendas
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Chair: Annemieke van den Dool (in-person)
Discussant: Caroline Schlaufer (in-person)

1. Jonathan Elkobi, “Novel Probing Into the Chairman Mind – Measurement of Xi Jinping policy preferences and political influence by comparing the autocrat’s speeches with official state reports”
2. Xinwei Chen, “Policy punctuations and issue diversity on the Chinese government agenda, 1949-2022” (in-person)
3. Mireille Manga, “The circulation of human rights discourse in the transnational policy process of the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon” (in-person)
4. Marina Pilkina, “Gender (in)equality in authoritarian settings: Evidence from the Russian academic environment” (in-person)

Panel 29: Dissecting Collaboration and Governing Systems
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Chair: Tom Koontz (in-person)
Discussant: Paul Cairney (virtualy)

1. Danielle McLaughlin, Jack Mewhirter, “Representation and Collaboration: A Conjoint Experiment” (in-person)
2. Nadege Carlier, David Aubin, Stephane Moyson, “Drivers of Stakeholders Satisfaction in Environmental Collaborative networks: Evidence from two European cities” (virtual; Belgium)
3. Matthew Nowlin, “Deliberative Governance and the Policy Process” (in-person) 
4. Hsiu-chi Pai, Chien-shih Huang, “Resilience in Water Governance: Using Q-methodology to Understanding Policy Advocacy Groups’ Narratives in Taiwan” (in-person)

Panel 30: Applying Computational Methods to Policy Process Scholarship
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Chair: Sam Workman (in-person)
Discussant: Sam Workman (in-person)

1. Nihit Goyal, “Computational text analysis and policy process research: A systematic review” (in-person)
2. Jonathan Klüser, “Fashion and Beauty turn to Politics: Assessing the Engagement of Social Media Influencers with Political Issues” (virtual; Switzerland)
3. Teresa Swist, “Digital policy prototyping amid planetary-scale computation: A transdisciplinary education puzzle” (in-person)

Panel 31: New Research in Sense of Place and Work
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Chair: Jill Yordy (in-person)
Discussant: Oscar Berglund (in-person)

1. Frances Jeanne Sarmiento, “Is Labor a Resource or a Commodity? Policy Implications for Decent Work in the Philippines” (virtual; Philippines)
2. Wasimon Tosuratana, “Drivers of public engagement in a hybrid regime’s policy process: a case of Thailand” (in-person)
3. Victor Albuquerque Felix da Silva, “State Capacities and Policies for Immigrants: a study of the Municipal Policy for the Immigrant Population (PMPI) in São Paulo” (in-person)
4. Manav Khaire, Disha Bhanot, “Public-Private Partnerships and Policy Capacity: A case study of an Indian affordable housing scheme” (virtually)

Panel 32: Networks of the Policy Process:  What we know about the role of interorganizational networks in policy systems
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Chair: Christopher Koliba (in-person)
Discussant: Denise Thompson

1. Christopher Koliba, “Making the Case for Inter-organizational Governance Networks as Meta-Structures Within and Across Policy Process Theories and Frameworks” (in-person)
2. Branda Nowell, “Steering Networks: Comparing Theoretical Mechanisms of Network Governance Between Purpose and System-oriented Networks” (in-person)
3. Goktug Morcol, “Understanding Complex Governance Networks through the Lens of the Micro-Marco Problem” (in-person)
4. Nicolas Oesterling, Saba Siddiki, “Exploring Discretion in Institutional Designs for Policy-Prescribed Collaboration” (in-person)

Panel 33: Whether or Whither – Challenges to the Advocacy Coalition Framework
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Chair: Johanna Hornung (in-person)
Discussant: Hank Jenkins-Smith (in-person)

1. Wei Li, Jonathan J. Pierce, Fang Chen, Fuguo Wang, “Politics of China’s Policy Processes: A Comparative Review of Advocacy Coalition Framework’s Applications to mainland China” (virtually; China)
2. Johanna Hornung, Allegra Fullerton, Chris Weible, “Devil and Angel Shift in Policy Research: A Review of Conceptualization and Measurement and Call for Improvements” (in-person)
3. Natália Satyro, Henrique Campos de Oliveira, Ana Luiza Medeiros, “ACF in Brazil: development and applications” (in-person)

Roundtable 5: Revisiting Policy Process Theories and Their Relevance for Europe
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Chair: Chris Weible

Participants: Evangelia Petridou, Claudio Radaelli, Paul Cairney, Karin Ingold, Reimut Zohlnhofer, Laura Chaques Bonafont, Giliberto Capano, Sandra Plumer

Roundtable 6: Author Meets Critics: Farmed Out: Agricultural Lobbying in a Polarized Congress
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Chair: Samuel Workman

Participants: Clare Brock, Samuel Workman, Kate Wassel, Trye Thomas, Raul Pacheco-Vega

Roundtable 7: The Narrative Policy Framework: The Narrative Policy Framework –Policy Narratives, Public Policy, and What A Story Can Tell Us
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Chair: Michael Jones

Participants: Elizabeth Shanahan, Michael Jones, Melissa Merry, Deserai Anderson Crow, Aaron Smith-Walter

Panel 34: Chinese Policy Scholars Group (CPSG) Panel on Policy Process in China
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Chair: Shiyang Xiao (in-person)
Discussant: All

1. Shiyang Xiao, Mary Lovely, Yilin Hou, “Top-down Inspections, Blame-Avoidance Strategies, and Changing Patterns of Industrial Policymaking in China” (in-person)
2. Shuai Cao, “Inter-Local Collaboration in Cross-Boundary Water Governance: Formation and Evolution” (in-person)
3. Yuhao Ba, “Corporate Giving in China: Addressing Environmental Misconduct Through Philanthropy” (virtually)
4. Jun Zhang, “Transcending Resource Endowment: Building Partnerships Between Local Governments and Universities in China” (in-person)

Panel 35: Advocacy Coalitions and Policy Change
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Chair: Cheyenne Black (in-person), Katie Peach (in-person)
Discussant: Antti Gronow (in-person)

1. Nikki Nadeau, Ramiro Berardo, “Discourse Coalitions in the Emerging Cellular Agriculture Policy Subsystem” (in-person)
2. Michael Flaherty, “From Taboo to Normalization: Policy Change and the UAP Case” (in-person)
3. Ene Ikpebe, Alex Osei-Kojo, “Advocacy Coalition Framework and Minimum Marriageable Age Policy in the US” (in-person)

Panel 36: Conceptualizing the Causal Mechanisms of Policy-Oriented Learning in the Advocacy Coalition Framework
Maxwell auditorium

Chair: Kristin Olofsson (in-person)
Discussant: Jill Yordy (in-person)

1. Kristin Olofsson, Sandra Plumer, Pavithra Selvakumar, “Who Learns How: An ACF Study Exploring Individual Attributes of Climate Change Learners” (in-person)
2. Linlang He, “Continual Learning and Policy Change: A Longitudinal Analysis across Hydropower Projects” (in-person)
3. Pascal Renaud, “How do policy actors learn? The case of forest policy in the context of climate change in Germany” (virtually)
4. Karin Ingold, Daniel Nohrstedt, Hank Jenkins-Smith, Chris Weible, Adam Henry, “Sharpening Policy-Oriented Learning in the Advocacy Coalition Framework” (in-person)

Panel 37: Policymaking with Multiple Streams
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Chair: Matthew Nowlin (in-person)
Discussant: Robert Ackrill (virtual)

1. Robert DeLeo, Sean McDonald, “Feedback, Policy Windows, and Agenda Setting: A Multiple Streams Perspective on Regional Economic Policymaking in Northern Ireland” (in-person)
2. Dana Dolan, Nikolaos Zahariadis, “Reconceptualizing Load and Overload in the MSF” (in-person)
3. Albena Dzhurova, “Streams unraveled: Studying unresolved politics in immigration policy reform using the multiple streams framework” (in-person)
4. Gwen Arnold, Sara Ludwick, Mohsen Fatemi, Le Anh Nguyen Long, Rachel Krause, “How Policy Entrepreneurs Influence Urban Transformations” (in-person)

Panel 38: “Relative, not random”: Theorizing context within the Narrative Policy Framework
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Chair: Hilda Broqvist (in-person)
Discussant: Michael Jones (in-person)

1. Hassan Arab, “Conceptualizing NPF in a monarchy political system” (in-person)
2. Rachel McGovern, “Narrative Dynamics in Institutional Analysis: Bridging the Gap between NPF and IAD” (in-person)
3. Hilda Broqvist, “What’s the Happily Ever After? How Visions of Gender Equality Shape Policy Narratives on Men’s Violence Against Women” (in-person)

Panel 39: Addressing Prejudices and Policy Burdens
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Chair: Oscar Berglund (in-person)
Discussant: Emily St. Denny (in-person)

1. David Carter, Emma Scheetz, “Mapping Policy Benefits and Burdens across State Legislation Target Populations: A Pilot Study from Utah” (in-person)
2. Gregory Schober, Alondra Arias, “Resource Effects, Health Moderators, and Policy Feedback in the Mass Public” (in-person)
3. Afsal, Hussain M.M.., “Combating Islamophobia in India: Public Activism and Policy Concerns” (in-person)
4. Cindy Agyemang, “Variations in the influence of racial attitudes on immigration policy adoption: A state level empirical analysis” (in-person)

Panel 40: Deservingness and the Politics of Emerging Social Policy Issues
Maxwell 111

Chair: Mallory Sorelle (virtually), Serena Laws (in-person)
Discussant: Serena Laws (in-person), Megan Aiken (in-person), Christopher Wikto (in-person)

1. Mallory SoRelle, Serena Laws, “Social Construction or Self-Interest? Competing Drivers of Debt Relief Policy Support” (virtually)
2. Megan Aiken, “Defining Deserving: Canadian Legislators’ Framing of the Opioid Crisis Origins, 2008-2018” (in-person)
3. Christopher Witko, Tobias Heinrich, “Deserving Government Assistance? Public Support for Aid to Struggling Firms and Workers” (in-person)
4. Abdul-Bassit Abubakari, Mohammed Ibrahim Younie-Gyabu, “Rethinking Health Policy and Equity in LMICs: A Policy feedback Study on Ghana’s National Health Insurance Scheme” (virtually)

Panel 41: New Ideas in Policy Process Theories and Methods (Part 2)
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Chair: Jörgen Sparf (in-person)
Discussant: Jörgen Sparf (in-person)

1. Paul Cairney, “Can we use policy process theories to engage in policy processes? Lessons from policy networks and evidence-informed policymaking” (virtually)
2. Toby Green, “Bringing order to the chaotic and accidental world that is grey policy process literature: how policy process researchers can better access the findings and experiences of policy makers and implementers” (in-person)
3. Sharique Hassan Manazir, “Revisiting Policy Science: A Comprehensive Theoretical Framework for Public Policy” (in-person)
4. Jonathan Lewallen, “Invoking Policy Complexity” (in-person)
5. Charlie F. Thompson, “Taking the Policy Process to the Northern Lights” (in-person)

Panel 42: Designing and implementing policy experimentation: opportunities and challenges
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Chair: Sreeja Nair (in-person), Kate Mattocks (in-person)
Discussant: Ilana Schröder (in-person)

1. Adam Wellstead, Karol Olejniczak, Iryna Kravchuk, “Who Needs Research Assistants? Experimenting with AI in policy research”
2. Kate Mattocks, “Designing a policy experimentation toolkit for policy-makers” (in-person)
3. Sreeja Nair, “Role of policy experiments in achieving ambitious climate targets- evidence from environmental ministries in Southeast Asia” (in-person)
4. Matt Grimley, Gabriel Chan, “Market Transformation and The Networked Action Situations of Virtual Power Plant Deployment” (in-person)

Panel 43: How Policy Design Impacts Policy Outcomes
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Chair: Edella Schlager (in-person)
Discussant: Tanya Heikkila (in-person)

1. Thomas Bolognesi, Manuel Fischer, “Good governance principles and policy effectiveness: What governance design to deliver urban water for all?” (virtual; Switzerland)
2. Brandon Charles, Saba Siddiki, “Implementation Complexity and Prescriptiveness in U.S. Renewable Portfolio Standard Legislation” (in-person)
3. Tomas Olivier, Edella Schlager, “Drivers of policy change and their effect on policy design in a regional governing arrangement” (in-person)
4. Shan Zhou, “The Impact of Local Zoning Ordinance Design on Wind Deployment” (in-person)

Panel 44: Narratives from Covid-19 and Beyond: Lessons Learned and Future Outlooks
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Chair: Jessica Boscarino (in-person)
Discussant: Aaron Smith-Walter (in-person)

1. Honey Minkowitz, “Examining the Role of Experiences and Parasocial Relationships in the Uptake of Presidential Framing of COVID-19” (in-person)
2. Jule Ksinsik, “Between Expertise and Worldview: The belief systems of scientists in Swiss Covid-19 policy” (in-person)
3. Megan Warnement Wrobel, Mark McBeth, “Focusing Events and Narrative Numbing” (in-person)
4. Rob DeLeo, Liz Shanahan, Kristin Taylor, Deserai Anderson Crow, Elizabeth Koebele, Elizabeth Albright, Tom Birkland, Nathan Jeschke, “Do Individuals Recall Memorable Messages About the COVID-19 Vaccine in Narrative Form?” (in-person)

Panel 45: Education Politics and Dilemmas
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Chair: Creed Tumlison (in-person)
Discussant: Gordon Kingsley (in-person)

1. Natallia Borozdina, Geoboo Song, “Public Opinion and Climate Change Education in Public Schools” (in-person)
2. Creed Tumlison, “What Shapes Support for Sustainability Programs in K-12 Schools? Examining the Roles of Cultural Values, Trust, and Perceived Knowledge” (in-person)
3. Marayna Martinez, “Political Processes of School Resegregation and Political Participation Among Students of Color” (virtually)
4. John Butt, “Academic Freedom Canceled: Coalition Building and Autonomy in Higher Education” (in-person)

Panel 46: Studying Policy Transfer and Diffusion across Levels of Governance
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Chair: Clara Faria (in-person), Osmany Porto de Oliveira (in-person)
Discussant: Daniel Mallinson (in-person)

1. Katariina Buure, Laura Kainiemi, Jarkko Levänen, Jūlija Gušča, Jeļena Pubule, “Exploring the multifaceted momentum for carbon capture, utilization and storage” (in-person)
2. Clara Faria, Osmany Porto de Oliveira, Camila Rezende de Almeida, “Diffusion of global public policies: a comparative analysis of the climate plans of the cities of São Paulo, Santiago and Johannesburg” (in-person)
3. Seulki Lee-Geiller, “Understanding the Dynamics of Policy Transfer from a Global Perspective in the Context of Open Government” (in-person)
4. Osmany Porto de Oliveira, “Transnational climate urban action: Brazil and the COP28 ” (in-person)
5. Esmat Zaidan, Sa’ad Shannak, “Climate Change Policy Diffusion in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Innovation and Sustainability at Multiple Governance Levels” (in-person)

Panel 47: Policy Entrepreneurship in the Policy Process
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Chair: Evangelia Petridou (in-person)
Discussant: Reimut Zohlnhöfer (virtual)

1. Emily Hodge, “Unpacking the Role of “Media Entrepreneurs” in the Multiple Streams Framework” (in-person)
2. Evangelia Petridou, Nikolaos Zahariadis, Jörgan Sparf, “The Policy Entrepreneur as a Crosscutting Concept of the Theories of the Policy Process: Implications for the European Scholarship” (in-person)
3. Jen Schneider, Luke Fowler, “Fake It ‘til You Make It: Critical Race Theory, Policy Ambiguity, & Implementation” (in-person)
4. Alex Garlick, “Hospital Lobbyists and Health Care Cost Containment in Massachusetts” (in-person)

Panel 48: New Directions in Policy Process Research in China
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Chair: Meng Yuan (in-person)
Discussant: Yuhao Ba (in-person)

1. Wing Shan Kan, Raul Lejano, “Relationality: The Inner Life of Public Policy” (virtual; China)
2. Zi-jing Xie, Jin-tao Li, “A Research on the Development Process and Change of China’s Environmental Policy from the Perspective of Policy Tools” (virtual; China)
3. Dennis Patterson, Kayee Zhou, Wendy Chen, “A Power Ascension Theory of Policy Making in Democratic and Nondemocratic Political Systems with Evidence from China” (virtual)
4. Meng Yuan, Brendon Swedlow, “Does Varying Cultural Narratives on COVID-19 Change Policy Support in China?” (in-person)

Panel 49: Tracing Changes in Policy and Governance over Time
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Chair: Jose Sanchez (in-person)
Discussant: Annelise Russell (virtually)

1. Graham Ambrose, Myriam Gregoire-Zawilski, “Micro-level examination of policy layering over time: An analysis text re-use in Net Metering policies in US States” (in-person)
2. Richard Craven, “Governing Radio Waves: Policy Learning and Policy Failure Across Three Regulatory Regimes” (in-person)
3. Pichate Pinthong, “Navigating Policy Process and Governance in Thailand’s Transition to Universal Health Coverage: Comprehensive Antiretroviral Therapy Access and Healthcare Equity” (in-person)

Panel 50: Advocacy Coalitions Comparative and Opportunity Structures
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Chair: Antti Gronow (in-person)
Discussant: Allegra Fullerton (in-person)

1. Antti Gronow, Keiichi Satoh, Tuomas Ylä-Anttila, “Coalition Opportunity Structures and the Belief Homophily Hypothesis. A Comparative Study of Corporatist and Majoritarian Countries” (in-person)
2. Cesar Guerrero-Arellano, “Coalition Opportunity Structures, distribution of power and political coalitions in the Mexican Congress: effects on the policy of evaluating basic education in Mexico during three presidential administrations” (in-person)
3. Kayla Gabehart, Kristin Olofsson, Christoph Stefes, Emma Scheetz, Megan Parker, Zoe Schuck, Lillie Morgan, “Examining the Evolution of Coalitional Discourse as Opportunity Structures Change: A Longitudinal Analysis of Wolf Reintroduction Policy in Colorado” (in-person)
4. Tim Heinmiller, “Why Policy Change Pathways Close: Canada’s Failed Attempts at Cannabis Decriminalization” (in-person)

Panel 51: Disinformation, Risk, and Climate Policy
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Chair: Ben Galloway (in-person)
Discussant: Tom Koontz (in-person)

1. Ben Galloway, Heasun Choi, Nataliia Borozdina, “How Bureaucrat’s Worldviews Affect Their Climate Change Risk Perceptions and Knowledge Levels” (in-person)
2. Kaitlin Peach, Hank Jenkins-Smith, “Exploring the Role of Disinformation in the Policy Process” (in-person)
3. Annica Sandström, Karin Beland-Lindhal, Marcin Mielewczyk, Krzysztof Niedzialkowski, Jens Nilsson, Spela Pezdevsek Malovrh, Pascal Renaud, Metodi Sotirov, Zala Uhan, “Combating new challenges with old responses? Forest policy responses to climate-related stress and disturbances in four European countries” (in-person)
4. Yuko Suyama, “Fusion of methodologies in policy research: Analyzing Germany’s energy policies” (virtually)

Moderator: Hank Jenkins-Smith, former Editor-in-Chief, Policy Studies Journal (2003-2009)

Participating journals and their representatives:

• Nils Bandelow, Co-Editor, European Policy Analysis
• Claire Dunlop, Co-Editor, Policy & Politics
• Johanna Hornung, Co-Editor, Review of Policy Research
• Evangelia Petridou, Associate Editor, International Review of Public Policy
• Osmany Porto de Oliveira, Associate Editor, Policy Sciences
• Geoboo Song, Editor-in-Chief, Policy Studies Journal

Panel 52: Examining Networks of Cooperation and Collaboration
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Chair: Alejandra Medina (in-person)
Discussant: Ramiro Berardo (in-person)

1. Johanna Kuenzler, Colette Vogeler, “What makes the difference between the model student and the troublemaker? Investigating the emergence of animal welfare policies in two European countries” (virtual; Germany)
2. Kyra Gmoser-Daskalakis, Mark Lubell, Gwen Arnold, “Collaborative Barriers, Opportunities and Outcomes in Wetland Restoration: A Case Study Approach in the San Francisco Bay-Sacramento San Joaquin Delta” (in-person)
3. Jose Sánchez, “An exploratory analysis of service delivery networks including principal cities” (in-person)

Panel 53: How Policy Entrepreneurs Shape Policymaking
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Chair: Tom Birkland (in-person)
Discussant: Johanna Hornung (in-person)

1. E.J. Fagan, Ilana Shpaizman, “Policy Entrepreneurship and Think Tanks: Measuring Think Tank Activity in the U.S.” (in-person)
2. Moshe Maor, “Missing Areas in the Study of Emotional Entrepreneurs in Politics and Policy” (virtual; Israel)
3. Gordon Shockley, “A Classical Economic Theory of Policy Entrepreneurship” (in-person)
4. Alex Jingwei He, Todd Shi, “Local Policy Entrepreneurship in Action: A Systematic Review” (in-person)

Panel 54: A Critical Approach to Expanding the ACF 
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Chair: Chris Weible (in-person)
Discussant: Nils Bandelow (in-person)

1. Erzuah Nvidah, Nathanael Adjei-Kyeremeh, Alex Osei-Kojo, “Advancing the Advocacy Coalition Framework: A Study of International Policy Actors and Traditional Leaders in Ghana’s Covid-19 Management”
2. Etienne Franca, “Nobody is safe until everyone is safe: the COVID-19 pandemic threat games” (in-person)
3. Owuraku Kusi-Ampofo, Mohammed Ibrahim, “Synthesizing Different Theories of the Policy Process to Explain Change: Tobacco Control in South Africa” (in-person)
4. Jill Yordy, “Revisiting beliefs in the ACF: towards a typology of beliefs for use in the measurement of hierarchal belief systems” (in-person)

Panel 55: Policy Transfer and Innovation in Multiple Scales: Local, National and Global
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Chair: Osmany Porto de Oliveira (in-person)
Discussant: Cecilia Osorio Gonnet (in-person)

1. David Dolowitz, “The transfer of the River Chief system: a case of Chinese Policy Transfer” (virtually)
2. Cecilia Osorio Gonnet, Antoine Maillet, “Facing wicked problems from the local level. Innovative public policies in municipalities in Chile” (in-person)
3. Ana Leticia Sala, “Climate policy diffusion – from the Paris Agreement to local governments in Brazil” (virtually)
4. Osmany Porto de Oliveira, “Contesting Transnational Policy Transfers: The Brazilian Accession Process to the OECD” (in-person)
5. Anaami Pandit-Haji, “The moment is ripe for Mental Health Diplomacy: A multi-case study of four countries’ approach to the WHO’s Mental Health Action Plan” (in-person)

Panel 56: Addressing Policy Conflicts in Policy Process
Maxwell auditorium

Chair: Tanya Heikkila (in-person), Vilem Novotny (virtually)
Discussant: Brooke Shannon (virtually)

1. Anna Crawford, Allegra Fullerton, “Gender and Policy Conflict: Abortion and Gender Affirming Care in Colorado” (in-person)
2. Emma Scheetz, Tanya Heikkila, Betsy Smith, “Policy Conflict on Colorado’s 2023 Water Plan” (in-person)
3. Tomas Lukavec, “Adult-use Marijuana Regulation: Policy Conflict Over the Legalization in Various Policy Settings of Colorado and the Czech Republic”
4. Mirna Jusic, “Assessing Policy Conflict Framework Development: a Meta Review” (in-person)

Panel 57: Capturing Local Policy Processes to Understand the Effectiveness of Climate Policy for Vulnerable Populations
Maxwell 110

Chair: Gordon Kingsley (in-person)
Discussant: Ariadna Reyes-Sanchez, Justina Jose

1. Evan Mistur, Ariadna Reyes, Joshua Newton, “Participatory Government and Environmental Justice in Informal Neighborhoods: the case of a Freedman’s Town in North Texas” (in-person)
2. Holly Peterson, Thomas Douthat, “Climate Policy and Regional Vulnerability in Louisiana” (in-person)
3. Anmol Soni, Justina Jose, Gordon Kingsley, “This, That, and the Other: Cities and climate action mix designs for vulnerable populations in the US” (in-person)
4. Juniper Katz, Jongeun You, Natalie Baillargeon, “Assessing Conflict over Utility-Scale Solar Siting in the United States” (in-person)

Panel 58: Policy & Political Issues in Mexico
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Chair: Raul Pacheco-Vega (in-person)
Discussant: Diego Galego

1. Fausto Amador, “Methods for Studying Wicked Public Policy Problems in the Context of Homelessness: A Case Study of Mexico” (virtual)
2. Jeraldine Del Cid, Gloria del Castillo, “Problem definition in the agenda setting process for the decriminalization of abortion in Central America: a very wicked problem”
3. Camila Sanchez, “Religious Freedom Expansion as a Wicked Problem: A Comparative Public Policy Approach”
4. Raul Pacheco-Vega, “Elder Care Policy as a Wicked Problem: An Intersectional Approach to Understanding Policies for Older Persons” (in-person)
5. Jaime Sainz, TBD

Panel 59: Policy Processes in Autocracies 4: Multiple Streams Framework
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Chair: Annemieke van den Dool (in-person)
Discussant: Nathan Jeschke (virtually)

1. Runhua Xue, Daniel Mallinson, “Assessing the multiple stream framework’s applicability to policymaking in China”
2. Zhiqi Xu, Wil Hout, “Navigating central and grassroots actors in Chinese poverty alleviation: A GONGO initiative analysis with the multiple streams framework”
3. Ziru Deng, “Achilles’ heel: Elderly COVID-19 vaccination policy in China”

Panel 60: Narrative Policy Framework Going Local: Translation, Reinterpretation, & Contextualization
Maxwell 108

Chair: Michael Jones (in-person)
Discussant: Megan Warnement Wrobel (in-person)

1. David Tindall, Mark Stoddart, “Social Network Linkages between Climate Policy Network Actors and News Media Actors” (virtual)
2. Kaitlin Diodosio, Katie Peach, Cheyenne Black, “Wicked Narratives: Exploring Oklahoma Perceptions of Wicked Problems Using the Narrative Policy Framework” (in-person)
3. Charlie F. Thompson, “Bringing in the Problem Definition Approach to Macro-Level Narrative Policy Analysis” (in-person)
4. Samantha Mosier, “The Politics of Policy Language: Semantics in the Policy Process” (virtual; North Carolina)

Panel 61: Policy and Political Responses to COVID-19
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Chair: Deserai Anderson Crow (in-person)
Discussant: Robert DeLeo (in-person)

1. Creed Tumlison, “Examining the Roles of Cultural Value Predispositions, Perceived Knowledge, and the Provision of Risk-Related Information on Covid-19 Mitigation Policy Support” (in-person)
2. Deena Brosi, “The Interplay of Geography, Local Politics, and Politicized Legislation When Investigating Vaccine Uptake During the COVID-19 Pandemic” (in-person)
3. Ellen Wayenberg, Bishoy Louis Zaki, Corneel De Vos, “Has COVID pushed Belgian provinces to distinct policy termination?” (virtual; Belgium)
4. Maria Alejandra Costa, Eric Montpetit, “State Capacity and Agenda Setting: Explaining Variation in Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazilian States” (virtual)

Panel 62: How Policy Diffusion Impacts Policymaking
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Chair: Daniel Mallinson (in-person)
Discussant: Osmany Porto de Oliveira (in-person)

1. Kristin Dobbin, Justin McBride, “Understanding the drivers of local institutional change in a changing climate” (virtual; California)
2. Nathan Barron, “Adaptation in Policy Diffusion” (in-person)
3. Pratik Joshi, Anand Rao, Rangan Banerjee, “Understanding Policy Diffusion Through the Interplay Between Central and State Government Policy Instruments: A Case of India’s Solar PV Policies” (in-person)
4. Joshua Jansa, Daniel Mallinson, “Linking Research on Policy Design and Diffusion to Advance Both Theories” (in-person)

Panel 63: Narrators in the Narrative Policy Framework
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Chair: Aaron Smith-Walter (in-person)
Discussant: Honey Minkowitz (in-person)

1. Jessica Boscarino, “Narration as Empowerment: Improving Political Efficacy through Policy Stories” (in-person)
2. Praneeta Mudaliar, Juhi Huda, “A Comparative Analysis of Policy Narratives in Media Coverage of the Smart City Mission in Pune and Surat, India” (in-person)
3. Mario Angst, Neitah Müller, Viviane Walker, “Sustainability imaginaries as macrolevel narratives and their translation into local level policy implementation” (virtually)

Panel 64: Policymaking Along Multiple Streams
Maxwell auditorium

Chair: Vilem Novotny (in-person)
Discussant: Chloé Berut (virtual)

1. Gertrud Alirani, “Mobilizing for policy implementation: A case study of urban gardening development in a Swedish municipality” (in-person)
2. Nihit Goyal, “How and when do social movements foster policy innovation? The transition to cycling in three European cities” (in-person)
3. Sandeep Paul, “Policy communities and agenda setting in urban climate policy: Case studies from India” (in-person)
4. Mahima Upadhyay, “What factors influence the involvement of local government in natural resource management in a decentralized policy framework: A critical institutional analysis” (virtual; India)

Panel 65: Deep core beliefs and gender politics
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Chairs: Sandra Plümer (in-person)
Discussant: Raul Pacheco-Vega (in-person)

1. Chris Weible, Anna Crawford, Allegra Fullerton, Kayla Gabehart, Katie Imhoff, Ariana Taylor, “Deep-Core Advocacy Coalitions” (in-person)
2. Katie Imhoff, “An Advocacy Coalition Case Study: Transgender Protections Advocates in Colorado” (in-person)
3. Giulia Mariani, “Uniting around deep core beliefs: The “anti-gender” advocacy coalition in the European Union” (in-person)
4. Allegra Fullerton, Chris Weible, “Analyzing Beliefs and Opponents in Gender Identity Politics in Arkansas” (in-person)

Panel 66: Policy Processes in Autocracies 3: Implementation
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Chair: Annemieke van den Dool (in-person)
Discussant: Oga Loblová

1. Hongshen Zhu, “Policy under conflicting mandates: Evidence from 1 billion cellphones during China’s COVID lockdown” (in-person)
2. Grigory Kuksin, Tatiana Chalaya, “Myths about peat fires – analysis of the role of forest firefighters in implementing landscape fires policy in Russia” (in-person)
3. Bingqing Guo, Karen Grepin, “Battle to survive: The association between accountability and Chinese local government response to COVID-19” (in-person)
4. Jinping Ma, Jiahong Fu, Bin Jiang, “Studying volume-based procurement policy using the process tracing method”: A Review of Conceptualization and Measurement and Call for Improvements”

Panel 67: Policymaking and Implementation during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Chair: Robert DeLeo
Discussant: Tom Birkland

1. Yahya C, “Kerala’s Policy Prowess: Navigating the COVID-19 Crisis with Impact” (virtually)
2. Deserai Anderson Crow, Kristin Taylor, Robert DeLeo, Nathan Jeschke, “Policy Design and Focusing Events: COVID-19 Policy Responses across U.S. States” (in-person)
3. Ana Claudia Farranha, “Public Policy Implementation Process and Inequalities: a study of the instances of guaranteeing the Right of Access to information” (in-person)
4. Par M. Olausson, Gertrud Alirani, Olof Oscarsson, Erna Danielsson, “Swift authority: a new way of understanding decision making during crisis” (in-person)

Panel 68: Big on Brokers – Studying them across Theories and Contexts
Maxwell 111

Chair: Edella Schlager (in-person)
Discussant: Åsa Knaggård (virtual)

1. Mohammed Ibrahim Younie-Gyabu, Owuraku Kusi-Ampofo, Abdul Karim Ibrahim, Abdul-Bassit Abubakari, “Explaining path-departing change in education financing in Africa: Do multiple streams matter?” (in-person)
2. Juho Mölsä, “Ombudsmen as problem brokers for regulatory concerns – Translating and brokering problem definitions across the policy, legal and epistemic communities” (virtual; Finland)
3. Yulan Kim, “The Role of Professional Forums in Nurturing Policy Brokers: Insights from South Korean Social Security Consultative Bodies” (virtual)
4. Tom Koontz, “Knowledge brokering in collaborative governance policy processes” (in-person)

Panel 69: Diverse Approaches to Studying Power and Justice 
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Chair: Rachel McGovern (in-person)
Discussant: Crystal Soderman (virtually)

1. Mokshda Kaul, Hanna Breetz, “Coalitions for Justice in the Clean Energy Transition” (in-person)
2. Tara Pozzi, Mark Lubell, Jessica Rudnick, “The Structure of Environmental Justice Networks in the California Delta” (in-person)
3. Graham Ambrose, Saba Siddiki, “Evaluating the quantity and qualities of policy conflict in environmental collaborative governance: An analysis of environmental justice councils” (in-person)
4. Jill Yordy, “Gatekeepers and stewards of political power: An exploration of hidden and invisible power mechanisms in Denver and Colorado Springs housing policy subsystems” (in-person)

Panel 70: Unraveling the Complexity of Environmental Policymaking
Maxwell 111

Chair: Kayla Gabehart (in-person)
Discussant: Matthew Nowlin (in-person)

1. Chitralada Chaiya, “Innovation in Environmental Policy: A Catalyst for Sustainable Development and Climate Mitigation” (in-person)
2. Erhan Cingir, “Knowledge Use in the World Bank’s Environmental Policy Making Process” (virtually)
3. Sreeja Nair, “Examining the prospects of co-production for improving domestic recycling in Singapore” (in-person)

Panel 71: Studying Education Policy Changes
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Chair: E.J. Fagan (in-person)
Discussant: Marayna Martinez (virtually)

1. Victor Akakpo, Camille Gilmore, Izehi Oriaghan, Geoboo Song, “Mental Health in Higher Education: Bridging the Gap for Effective Policies and Services in Ghana” (in-person)
2. Ajit Phadnis, Pawandeep Kaur, Raul Pachori, Omkar Sathe, “Policy customisation in the Global South: case of RTE Act in India” (virtually)
3. Teresa Swist, Kevin Witzenberger, Kalervo Gulson, Jason Schultz, “School operations and algorithmic impact assessments: Due, overdue, or outdated policymaking processes in education?” (in-person)