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POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL

Wiley SSCI Non-OA
2026 Emerging Zone 22025 CAS Zone 22025 JCR Q1
324.2Average days
333.5Median days
82Fastest days
584Longest days
1042025 publications

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584 days

Balancing Particularism and Universalism in Welfare Policy: Insights From China's Hukou Reform

AuthorsLiu Chen; Tom Christensen; Xufeng Zhu

Affiliations1. School of Public Policy and Management Tsinghua University Beijing China; 2. Department of Political Science University of Oslo Oslo Norway

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337 days

Ethnoracial Characteristics and Police Abuse Within Mexico's Criminal Justice System

AuthorsArturo Luna Cancino; Javier Reyes‐Martínez

Affiliations1. División de Administración Pública Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas Ciudad de México Mexico; 2. División de Administración Pública Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (Región Centro) Aguascalientes Mexico

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463 days

Evolving Contexts and Diverging Strategies: Federalism and the Politics of Immigrant Welfare Exclusion in the US

AuthorsPing Xu; Ling Zhu; Sebastian Ege

Affiliations1. Department of Political Science University of Rhode Island Kingston Rhode Island USA; 2. Department of Political Science University of Houston Houston Texas USA

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338 days

From Policy Legitimization to Blame Avoidance—Discursive Strategies During Denmark's Mink Culling Crisis

AuthorsOlivier Rubin; Olov Hemmingsson; Evangelia Petridou; Jörgen Sparf

Affiliations1. Department of Social Sciences and Business Roskilde University Roskilde Denmark; 2. Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Mid Sweden University Östersund Sweden; 3. NTNU Social Research Trondheim Norway

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489 days

Disclosing Power Dynamics in Metropolitan Governance: An Analysis of Network Micro‐Mechanisms of Change in an Evolving Inter‐Municipal Network

AuthorsKarina Arias‐Yurisch; Karina Retamal‐Soto; Alejandro Espinosa‐Rada

Affiliations1. School of Government Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago Chile; 2. Department of Public Administration and Management Universidad de Chile Santiago Chile; 3. Institute of Sociology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago Chile

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330 days

Diagnosing Institutional Design‐Implementation Gaps: A Dual‐Layer Systems Modeling Language Protocol for Visualizing Institutional Change Mechanisms

AuthorsSina Jangjoo; Tian Tang; Laura Arpan; Emily Lapan; D. G. Webster; Patrick Bitterman; John C. Little; Amro M. Farid

Affiliations1. University of Texas Tyler USA; 2. Florida State University Tallahassee Florida USA; 3. University at Buffalo Amherst New York USA; 4. Dartmouth College Hanover New Hampshire USA; 5. Kent State University Kent Ohio USA; 6. Virginia Tech Blacksburg Virginia USA; 7. Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken New Jersey USA

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507 days

Contested Rule Formation Under Institutional Mismatch: A Framework for Early‐Phase Governance of Disruptive Innovations

AuthorsSina Jangjoo

Affiliations1. Department of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences The University of Texas at Tyler Tyler Texas USA

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153 days

A Narrative Walks Into a Forum: Bridging the Narrative Policy and Ecology of Games Frameworks

AuthorsRachel McGovern; Danielle M. McLaughlin; Jack Mewhirter; Michael D. Jones

Affiliations1. Department of Political Science Clemson University Clemson South Carolina USA; 2. Martin School of Public Policy and Administration University of Kentucky Lexington Kentucky USA; 3. The Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs University of Tennessee Knoxville Tennessee USA

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169 days

The Effects of Policy Success Versus Failure Narratives

AuthorsSarah Pralle; Emily Thorson

Affiliations1. Department of Political Science Syracuse University Syracuse New York USA

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294 days

It Does Matter. A New Framework on the Influence of Policy Evaluation

AuthorsPirmin Bundi; Valérie Pattyn

Affiliations1. IDHEAP, University of Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland; 2. Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University Leiden the Netherlands

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Median77 days

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