Conference Schedule

Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Thursday, January 12, 2023

Narrative Policy Framework Theory 1

Chair: Kristin Taylor

Student Commons Building, Room 2000 (2^nd floor)

Policy Narratives of Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Sweden: A Narrative Policy Framework Analysis (Aaron Smith-Walter)
Stories Told Before: Intertextuality in Policy Narratives on Men’s Violence Against Women (Hilda Broqvist)
Memorable Messages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Assessing the Relationship Among Narratives, Affect, and Risk Perception on Mitigation Behaviors (Kristin Taylor, Rob A. DeLeo, Elizabeth A. Albright, Elizabeth A. Shanahan, Elizabeth A. Koebele, Deserai A. Crow & Thomas A. Birkland)
What Influenced the Framing of COVID-19 Congressional Policy Narratives? (Honey Minkowitz)
Citizen Storytellers: A Micro-Level Analysis of the Narrative Policy Framework at a Public Hearing (Joseph Shiovitz)

Policy Entrepreneurs in Policy Process Research

Chair: Evangelia Petridou

Student Commons Building, Room 2500A (2^nd floor)

Policy Entrepreneurs, Strategies, and Institutional Contexts in Interreg Europe (Evangelia Petridou & Arnault Morisson)
Proactive vs. Reactive Policy Entrepreneurship Among Public Servants: A Network Approach (Per Becker, Jörgen Sparf & Evangelia Petridou)
Street Level Bureaucrats, Policy Entrepreneurship, and the Challenge of Enforcing Bans on Informal Economy Activities (Robert Ackrill, Eghosa Igudia, Olasunmbo Olusanya & Basirat Oyalowo)
What Motivates Policy Entrepreneurs? (Gwen Arnold, Madeline Schomburg, Meghan Klasic, Abigail York & Changtong Wu)
A Classical Conceptualization of Policy Entrepreneurship (Gordon Shockley)

Emotions and the Policy Process

Chair: Allegra Fullerton / Discussant: Linda Méndez-Barrientos

Student Commons Building, Room 2504 (2^ndfloor)

What the Public Wants, the Public Gets: The Power of Post-Disaster Narratives on Local Policy Change (Betsy Smith, Nathan Jeschke & Deserai Crow)
Emotions and Advocacy Coalitions (Allegra H. Fullerton, Kayla M. Gabehart, William L. Swann & Chris Weible)
Social Media Mass Hysteria During Covid-19: Political Factor on Twitter (Dohyo Jeong)
I Belong; Therefore, I Feel? Social Identities and the Strength of Emotions in Public Policy (Johanna Hornung & Nils Bandelow)

Causal Mechanisms in Policy Process Research

Chair: Sandra Plümer

Student Commons Building, Room 1500 (1^st floor)

Policy Change and Policy Performance: A Mechanistic Perspective (Giliberto Capano)
Modes of Policy Learning as Causal Mechanisms: Developing a “Policy Learning Measuring Instrument” for Qualitative Research (Jonathan C. Kamkhaji)
Mechanisms of Perception, Action and Interaction in The Diffusion of Return Policies (Sybille Münch)
School-Parent Relationships Broadening the Scope of Co-Production Through the Understanding of Social Contextual Mechanisms (Meril Antony)
Towards Understanding Effective Policy Mixes: Design Attributes, Causal Mechanisms, and Explanatory Variables (Kerem M. Coban & Azad S. Bali)

Learning: Moving the Scholarship Forward - Panel 1

Chair: Matt Nowlin

Student Commons Building, Room 1600 (1^st floor)

Policy Beliefs, Belief Uncertainty, and Policy Learning (Matthew C. Nowlin)
Do Governments Learn From Ad Hoc Groups? A Study of Pandemic Responses in Southeast Asia (Sreeja Nair & Akshat Garg)
From Role-Playing to Role-Making: The Process of Policy Advice in the Italian Central Government in Pandemic Times (2019-2021) (Andrea Lippi & Tullia Galanti)
Getting to Grips with Measuring Policy Learning (Bishoy Louis Zaki & Claudio Radaelli)

Understanding Climate Change Through a Policy Lens - Panel 1

Chair: Matthew Hamilton

Student Commons Building, Room 3208 (3^rd floor)

The Framing of Sea Ice in Alaskan News Reporting: A Novel Mixed Methods Approach (Kelly Claborn, Krista Lawless, Masha Monakhova & Abigail York)
City-Level Representation and Support for Climate Mitigation Policies (Hayley Elszasz)
Evolution of Sustainability Collaborative Network: Integration or Segregation in the Process of Policy Knowledge Production (Chien-shih Huang)
Examining Collaborative Governance for Wetland Restoration in the San Francisco Bay Delta of California (Kyra Gmoser-Daskalakis)

Newest of Policy Process Theories - Panel 3

Chair: Geoboo Song

Student Commons Building, Room 3121 (3^rd floor)

Assessing Policy Conflict Framework Applications (Jongeun You)
Is a Participatory Advisory Process a Sufficient Condition for External Expert Advice to Influence Government Policy Formulation? A Comparative Analysis of Two Cases in Hong Kong (Li Wei)
The Policy Process in Latin America: Patterns, Actors and Dynamics (Nelson Cardozo)
Assessing and Enabling Research Use in Policymaking: Multiple Case Studies of Birth Cohort Study for Early Childhood and Family (Youngmin Seo)

Multiple Streams Framework: Advances in Theories and Methods - Panel 1

Chair: Rob DeLeo

Student Commons Building, Room 2000 (2^nd floor)

Between Problem Indicators and Focusing Events: Advancing A Theory of Problem Signals in the Multiple Streams Framework (Kristin Taylor & Stephanie Zarb)
The Beating Heart of the MSF: Coupling as a Process (Dana A. Dolan & Sonja Blum)
Cones & Streams: Using the MSF To Better Understand and Depict Policy Trajectories (Andrea Migone & Michael Howlett)
No More Fashion Victim: Coupling Multiple Streams on the Ban for Mink Farming in France and Denmark (Anne-Marie Parth, Colette Vogeler, Malte Möck & Johanna Kuenzler)

Collaborative Governance

Chair: Nicola Ulbarri

Student Commons Building, Room 2504 (2^nd floor)

Contexts of Conflict Versus Collaboration: A Microscale Analysis of Collaborative Dynamics (Nicola Ulibarri)
Conceptualizing Institutional Change As Relational: Provincial Educational Policymaking in Alberta and Newfoundland/Labrador (Leanne Letourneau)
Response to Mandates: The Role of Initiation Type in the Evolution of Collaborative Governance (Jie Wang)
Still Processing: Ever-Ongoing Explorations of Decarbonization Pathways in An Electric Cooperative’s Coupled Infrastructure (Gabe Chan & Matt Grimley)
Environmental Justice Policy Development Stifled by Siloed Environmental Governance Structures (Jessica Rudnick)

ACF: The Role and Identification of Advocacy Coalitions

Chair: Karin Ingold

Student Commons Building, Room 1500 (1^st floor)

The Identification of Advocacy Coalitions in Swiss Agricultural Policy: How Much Do I Need to Agree with My Peers? (Milena Wiget & Karin Ingold)
Coalition Opportunity Structures and Different Kinds of Advocacy Coalitions (Antti Gronow, Keiichi Satoh & Tuomas Ylä-Anttila)
Different Approaches to Measuring Advocacy Coalitions and Potential Implications for Their Network Attributes OR Does it Matter How Advocacy Coalitions are Measured? (Alex Osei-Kojo)
Retweets As Implied Endorsement: Identifying Advocacy Coalitions with Retweet Network Data (Paul Wagner)
Multimodal Perspective on Advocacy Coalitions: A Case of Czech Climate Subsystem (Petr Oclik)

Frames, Discourse, and Narratives: Diverse Perspectives

Chair: Aaron Smith-Walter

Student Commons Building, Room 1600 (1^st floor)

Experts, Expertise, and Policy Problems: Using the Narrative Policy Framework to Analyze Gubernatorial Communications During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Ryan Lofaro & Alka Sapat)
Symbolic, Tactical, and/or Transformative? Interrogating the Impact of California’s Human Right to Water Law Ten Years After Passage (Kristin Dobbin & Jenny Rempel)
Agency, Agents and Their Interrelations in Multiple Windows of Opportunity, Multiple Streams and Industry Trajectories: Creating a Market for Zero Tailpipe Emissions Vehicles in the UK (Ural Arslangulov)
govscienceuseR: Tools for Quantifying Science in Policy (Liza Wood & Tyler Scott)

Policy Change from Diverse Theoretical Perspectives - Panel 3

Chair: Linlang He

Student Commons Building, Boettcher Room 1401 (1^st floor)

Understanding the Authoritarian Policy Process: The Introduction of Multi-Candidate Elections in the USSR (Dima Kortukov)
Agenda to Adoption: Understanding the Mechanisms Driving Fee-Free Policy Development in Sub-Saharan Africa Through Policy Change Frameworks (Gabriel Asante, György Gajduschek & Attila Bartha)
Are Foreign and Domestic Policy Changes Driven by the Same Processes? Lessons From Analysing UK International Development Policy (2010-2020) (Danielle Beswick)
Convergent Research for Scoping Vulnerability and Managing Risks Off the Agenda (Cory Struthers, Michelle Ritchie, Pete Hazelton, Alex Strauss & Krista Capps)
Promoting AI in the U.S. Government—A Survey of Policy Process Frameworks (Azka Shoaib & Muhammad Salar Khan)

Water Politics and Policy

Chair: Elizabeth Koebele

Student Commons Building, Room 3208 (3^rd floor)

Capturing the Policy Process in Dynamic Models of Coupled Infrastructure Systems: An Urban Water Example (Adam Wiechman, Sara Alonso Vicario, Koorosh Azizi, Elizabeth Koebele, Aaron Deslatte, George Hornberger, Margaret Garcia & John M. Anderies)
The Many Facets of Diversity in River Basin Governance (Jaishri Srinivasan & Michael Schoon)
Framing Environmental Transitions. How Policy Actors Perceive Social-Ecological Interdependencies? (Thomas Bolognesi & Geraldine Pflieger)
Power, Institutional Change, and Socio-Ecological Transformation: How Do Disadvantaged Groups Gain Power in Drought-Stricken California? (Linda E. Méndez-Barrientos)

Multiple Streams Framework: Advances in Theories and Methods - Panel 2

Chair: Rob DeLeo

Student Commons Building, Room 2000 (2^nd floor)

Impact of Policy Process on Quality of Laws: Case Studies from India (Kaushiki Sanyal)
Unpacking Kingdon's Political Stream from a Causal Mechanism Perspective (Dana A. Dolan)
Extending the Multiple Streams Framework: Lessons from Ghana’s Performance Management Policy Change (Alex Osei-Kojo, Erzuah Nvidah & Clement Mensah Damoah)
Agency, Agents and Their Interrelations in Multiple Windows of Opportunity, Multiple Streams and Industry Trajectories: Creating a Market for Zero Tailpipe Emissions Vehicles in the UK (Robert Ackrill)

Transnational Policy Process: Diffusion of Policies

Chair: Osmany Porto de Oliveira / Discussant: Cecilia Osorio

Student Commons Building, Room 2500A (2^nd floor)

National Security Policy Diffusion: The Case of TSA Regulations (De Castro Quaglia)
Policy Design Through Transnational Policy Networks: Mainstreaming Graduation in Social Protection in the Global South (Kidjie Saguin & Michael Howlett)
How History Matters: The Transnational Domain of Experts’ Knowledge (Mireille Manga)
Assemble and Move: Analysing the Roles of South-South Cooperation Networks and Their Implications for Policy Studies (Tuba I. Agartan)

Newest of Policy Process Theories - Panel 1

Chair: Johanna Hornung

Student Commons Building, Room 2504 (2^nd floor)

Ace of Spades: Policy Making in the Nordic Countries (Charlie F. Thompson)
Social Identities and the ACF: Application, Complement, or Alternative? (Nils Bandelow & Johanna Hornung)
Evaluating Conflict in Environmental Governance: A Multi-Level Analysis of Conflict in Environmental Justice Councils (Graham Ambrose & Saba Siddiki)

Policy Feedback and Path Dependency - Panel 2

Chair: Mallory SoRelle

Student Commons Building, Room 1500 (1^st floor)

Does Government-Led Collaborative Governance Crowd Out Alternative Venues of Civic Participation? A Study of Policy Feedback Effects (Yulan Kim)
Precarious Policies: The Impact of Street-Level Implementation and Feedback Effects on German Environmental Crime Law (Kayla M. Gabehart, Allegra H. Fullerton & Cristoph H. Stefes)
Policy Feedback and Low-Income Tax Credits: Rethinking Invisibility in the Submerged State (Serena Laws)
The Policy Feedback Effects of Preemption (Mallory E. SoRelle & Allegra H. Fullerton)
Civil Injustice: Policy Feedback Effects and the Justice Gap (Jamila Michener & Mallory SoRelle)

Processing the Extreme: Weather, Climate and Public Policy

Chair: Leanne Giordono

Student Commons Building, Room 1600 (1^st floor)

Following the Path to Policy Change: Oregon 2020 Wildfires as a Focusing Event (Leanne Giordono)
Cultural Values, Climate Change Cognition, and Climate Science Education (Rachael Moyer, Geoboo Song, & Nataliia Borozdina)
Does Telling Narratives About Children and Climate Change Impact Extreme Event Preparation? (Holly Peterson)
Processing the Extreme: Weather, Climate and Public Policy (Anmol Soni, Justina Jose & Gordon Kingsley)

Learning: Moving the Scholarship Forward - Panel 2

Chair: Andrea Gerlak & Tanya Heikkila

Student Commons Building, Room 3208 (3^rd floor)

Are Grey Papers a Reliable Source of Information for Policymaking? Tensions Between Information Publicness and Technical Reproducibility (Nicolas Didier & Mauricio Vargas)
Policy Learning in Data-Based Policy Innovation Labs (Sojeong Kim, Tanya Heikkila & Adam M. Wellstead)
Identifying Governmental Coordination Mechanisms in the Context of Policy Learning: The Case of German Education Policy (Sandra Plümer)
Shaping International Health Policy from 2012-2015: The Role of Evidence and Institutions in the Deliberations over SDG 3 (Jessica Espey)
Latent Characteristics of Policy Learning in Organizations (Kristin Taylor, Nathan Jeschke & Richard Smith)

Policy Change from Diverse Theoretical Perspectives - Panel 2

Chair: Aaron Deslatte

Student Commons Building, Room 3121 (3^rd floor)

Analyzing the Transformation of German Energy Policy Under the Merkel Administration (Yuko Suyama)
Climate Adaptive Institutions: Frictions, Voids and Trade-Offs (Aaron Deslatte, Elizabeth Koebele & Adam Wiechman)
Athletic Competition Between States? The Rapid Spread of Name, Image, Likeness Laws and Why It Matters for Our Understanding of Policy Diffusion (Joshua Jansa)
Using Cultural Theory for Information Source Reliance in Central Oregon (Kanchan Ojha)
Pulling Back the Curtain: Tracing the Evolution of the ACF Through the Flow Diagram (Elizabeth Koebele, Karin Ingold, Kristin Olofsson, Keiichi Satoh, Daniel Nohrstedt, Hank Jenkins-Smith & Chris Weible)

The Narrative Policy Framework and Societal Controversies

Chair: Mike Jones

Student Commons Building, Boetcher Room 1401 (1^st floor)

Social Networks, Culture Wars, and School Board Recalls: A Case Study of Loudoun County Schools (Ariell Bertrand, Yi-Chih Chiang, Amy Cummings, Rebecca Jacobsen & Ken Frank)
White Male Narratives (Michael D. Jones, Keith Gåddie, Matthew Nowlin, Aaron Smith-Walter, Geoboo Song, Chris Koski & Samuel Workman)
Governing with Storytelling: Social Equity During Pandemic Response (Manli Zhang)

Friday, January 13, 2023

Chinese Policy Scholars Group Panel on Policy Process Research in China

Chair: Hongtao Yi

Student Commons Building, Room 2000 (2^nd floor)

One Policy Position, But Different Stories: The Roles of Organizational Resources in Policy Narrative Design of Chinese Nonprofit Organizations Advocating Carbon-neutral Policy (Jia Guo)
Stability and Change in Environmental Governance Regimes: An International Comparative Study (Yuhao Ba, Christopher Galik & Christopher Bobbitt)
Over-Compliance with the National Program: Motivations and Consequences (Xue Gao & Quanfeng Shu)
Explaining Policy Punctuations in Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from Chinese Provinces (Can Chen, Ivy Liu & Hongtao Yi)

ACF: The Student Experience Applying the Advocacy Coalition Framework

Chair: Allegra Fullerton / Discussants: Paul Cairney & Kristin Olofsson

Student Commons Building, Room 2500A (2^nd floor)

Implementation of Bike Paths in the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area 2002 to 2021 (Victor Manuel Clavellina Peñaloza)
Coalitions in the Brazilian Higher Education Quality Assurance Policy Subsystem: Learning to Change, Learning to Resist (Janaina Ma)
Evaluating the Role of Policy Networks in the Formulation of Anti-Corruption Reforms in Botswana: A Case Study of the Declaration of Assets and Liabilities Act (Marumo Omotoye)
The Politics of Scottish Government Policy on Unconventional Oil and Gas (Irina Timonina)
Drivers for Coordination in Nascent Subsystems: Comparing the Regulation of Food Waste and Antimicrobial Resistances in Switzerland (Ruth Wiedemann)
Identifying Governmental Coordination Mechanisms in the Context of Policy Learning: The Case of German Education Policy (Sandra Plümer)

Learning Roundtable - Fortifying Theories of (and with) Policy Learning

Co-Chairs: Tanya Heikkila & Claire Dunlop

Student Commons Building, Room 2504 (2^nd floor)

Andrea Gerlak, Adam Henry, Tom Koontz, Stephane Moyson, Matt Nowlin, Kristin Taylor & Bishoy Zaki

Policy Feedback and Path Dependency - Panel 1

Chair: Nicolas Jager

Student Commons Building, Room 1500 (1^st floor)

Policy Feedback of Public Service Access: Evidence from South Korea (Daewoo Lee)
Clarity of Responsibility and Its Effect on Policy Feedback and Representation in US Higher Education (Zhamilya Mukasheva, Sofia Collignon & Ursula Hackett)
Drivers of Policy Stagnation – A Set-Theoretic Analysis of the Determinants of Climate Adaptation Policy Lock-Ins (Nicolas Jager, Lisanne Groen, Dave Huitema, Meghan Alexander, Jean Huge, Julie King, Tim Rayner, John Turnpenny & Bernd Siebenhüner)
The Darkest Side of Policymaking: Malign and Malicious Policymaking in Homelessness (Anna Kopec)

Policy Diffusion

Chair: Elizabeth Baldwin

Student Commons Building, Room 1600 (1^st floor)

Cannabis Liberalization in U.S. States: Analyzing the Adoption Diffusion of Clustered and Nested Policies (Samantha Mosier & Cynthia Rugeley)
Policy Diffusion of State Earned Income Tax Credits: An Event History Analysis (Victoria Hunter Gibney)
Politics vs Public Health: What Factors Drive County-Level Covid-19 Policy Diffusion? (Elizabeth Baldwin, Seung-Ho An, Anne Boustead, Laura McCann, Aaron Lien & Tom Evans)
Preemption of ‘Good Cause’ Eviction Laws: Impact on Local Policy (Ellen Munley Mulcahy)

NPF: Stories from the City - The Narrative Policy Framework in Urban and Local Settings

Chair: Johanna Kuenzler

Student Commons Building, Boettcher Room 1401 (1^st floor)

Untangling Ariadne’s Narrative Threads: A Narrative Policy Framework Analysis of Tourism and Air Transport Infrastructure Legislative Testimony (Spyridon Parthenis & Polyxeni Moira)
Narrative Strategies for Negotiating Social Citizenship in an Expanding Welfare State Context (Srinivas Yerramsetti, Manish Anand & Caroline Schlaufer)
Narratives of Citizen Engagement in India’s Smart City Mission (SCM): Analyzing Policy Narratives of SCM in Pune, India (Juhi Huda & Praneeta Mudaliar)
Between Rules and Narratives: Understanding Collective Action in Innovation Policy Processes (Gaia Taffoni, Giovanni Esposito & Andrea Terlizzi)

Morality Policy & Policy Process - Panel I: The ACF Tackles Issues of Morality, Identity, and Representation

Chair: Anna Crawford

Student Commons Building, Room 3208 (3^rd floor)

Immigrant-Serving Nonprofits and Their Influence on County-Level Policy Change: An Advocacy Coalition Approach (Kathryn Grossman, Brittany Blizzard & Jocelyn Johnston)
Digital Technologies Overcome the Paradox of Decentralization (Inke Torfs)
Defining the Meaning of European Union Values: The Rise of the "Anti-Gender" Advocacy Coalition at the Supranational Level (Giulia Mariani)
The Representativeness of Abortion Advocacy Coalitions in Colorado (Anna Crawford & Chris Weible)
Domestic Violence Policy in Authoritarian Settings: Evidence from Russia (Marina Pilkina)

Advancing the Ecology of Games Framework

Chair: Jack Mewhirter

Student Commons Building, Room 3121 (3^rd floor)

The Role of Decentralized Local Risk Governance Networks in Diffusing Discourse Around Climate Change Adaptation: The Case of Community Wildfire Protection Plans in the Western USA (Matthew Hamilton, Laura Dee, Cody Evers, Jordan Inskeep, Adriana Jacobi, Anna Lopresti, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Hongtao Yi & Jack Mewhirter)
Manifesting Symbolic Representation Through Forum Inclusivity: Evidence from a Conjoint Survey Experiment (Jack Mewhirter & Danielle McLaughlin)
The Effect of Actor and Forum Heterogeneity on Perceptions of Performance in Polycentric Governance Systems (Francesca Vantaggiato & Mark Lubell)
Collective Stakeholder Action for Commons: Integrating Business-Stakeholder Value Creation with Polycentric Governance (Laura Albareda & Jarkko Levänen)
Modeling the Evolution of Polycentric Water Governance in the Colorado River Basin (Elizabeth Koebele, Linda E. Méndez-Barrientos, Tony Colella & Andrea Gerlak)

ACF: Explaining Energy and Environmental Controversies

Chair: Alex Osei-Kojo

Student Commons Building, Room 3018 (3^rd floor)

Lancang-Mekong Cooperation and the Debates Around Hydropower Development in the Mekong Countries: Testing the Advocacy Coalition Framework (Linlang He, Kate Wills, Claire Benson & Amanda Flaim)
Advocacy Coalitions Under Weak Rule of Law. Evidence from the Forest Policy Subsystem in Mexico (Jaime Sainz-Santamaria)
Advocacy Coalitions in Response to Crisis: Discourse Variations and Coalition Stability in the United States Nuclear Energy Policy (Aerang Nam)
Driving Factors: Beliefs and Influence in Transportation Policy (Amy Lee)
Policy Change in Comparative Contexts: A Study of Oil and Gas Governance in Ghana and Nigeria (Alex Osei-Kojo)

NPF: Theoretical developments of the Narrative Policy Framework 2

Chairs: Betsy Smith & Nathan Jeschke

Student Commons Building, Room 2600 (2^nd floor)

Policy Narratives of Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Sweden: A Narrative Policy Framework Analysis (Simone Grännsjö, Evangelia Petridou & Jörgen Sparf)
The Plot Thickens: A Review of Narrative Policy Framework Scholarship on Plot (Jonathan W.A. Ruff)
Advancing the Analysis of Plot Within the Narrative Policy Framework Using the Case of Energy Policy in Ghana (Rachel McGovern, Crystal Soderman, Alex Osei-Kojo & Kristin Olofsson)
May It Please the Court: Establishing Underlying Narratives on the U.S. Supreme Court (George Thomas Fields)

Rountable on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

Evangelia Petridou, Corinne N. Connor & Saba N. Siddiki

Student Commons Building, Room 2600 (2^nd floor)

This session seeks to advance an understanding of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) opportunities and challenges in the policy process research community. The session will be dedicated to group discussions, in which conference attendees will interact in smaller group discussion about the DEIA issues and opportunities they consider most pressing for them personally and others with whom they identify and for the policy process research community more broadly.

Panel Discussion

10:15 AM – 10:45 AM

Caucus Group Discussions

10:45 AM – 11:20 AM

Large Group Discussion

11:20 AM – 11:45 AM

Transnational Policy Process: South America

Chair: Osmany Porto de Oliveira / Discussant: Michelle Morais

Student Commons Building, Room 2000 (2^nd floor)

Capacity to Transfer Global Public Policies: The Localization of Climate Change Instruments in São Paulo (Osmany Porto de Oliveira)
Policy Transfer as Lock-in: The Unlikely Case of Brazil’s Development Cooperation Under Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022) (Laura Trajber Waisbich)
Human Rights and the Transnational Policy Process: From Norm Diffusion to Bureaucratic Values (Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva)
The Circulation of Innovative Local Public Policies in Chile: Governance, Actors and Dynamics (Cecilia Osorio & Antoine Maillet)

Roundtable: Future of Multiple Streams

Chair: Rob DeLeo

Student Commons Building, Room 2500A (2^nd floor)

Michael Jones, Kristin Taylor, Evangelia Petridou, Nikolaos Zahariadis & Andrea Migone

Policy Change from Diverse Theoretical Perspectives - Panel 1

Chair: Edella Schlager

Student Commons Building, Room 2504 (2^nd floor)

Policy Change in Socially Embedded Local Policy Processes in Brazil, 1988-2020 (Eduardo Marques & Renata Bichir)
Theories of the Policy Process and American Political Reform: New Approaches for Evaluating Changes in Electoral and Administrative Institutions (J. Andrew Sinclair)
Antecedents of Policy Change: Advancing the Advocacy Coalition Framework’s Theory and Methods (Allegra H. Fullerton, Elizabeth Koebele, Tanya Heikkila, Daniel Nohrstedt & Chris Weible)
Exploring the Effects of Context and Learning on Policy Change (Edella Schlager & Tomas Olivier)

Newest of Policy Process Theories - Panel 2

Chair: Moshe Maor

Student Commons Building, Room 1500 (1^st floor)

National Security Governance: A Framework for Understanding the Effects of Competing National Security Imperatives (Sean Webeck & Natalie J. Webb)
What Influences the Use of Systems Thinking Approaches in Policy Teams That Design Comprehensive Public Health and Social Strategies? (Joslyn Trowbridge, Robert Schwartz, Diane Finegood & Lori Ross)
Mapping the Fallout: Applying Policy Theories to the Post-Crisis Policy Process (Mark C. Hand)

Policy Design

Chair: Saba Siddiki / Discussant: Annie Miller

Student Commons Building, Room 1600 (1^stfloor)

Policy Dismantling: Bridging the Analysis of Process and Effects (Johabed Olvera & Guillermo M. Cejudo)
Freedom to Information: Laws, Policy Implementation, and Inequality. A Comparative Study on the United States and Brazil (Ana Claudia Farranha)
One Policy Position, but Different Stories: The Roles of Organizational Resources in Policy Narrative Design of Chinese Nonprofit Organizations Advocating Carbon-Neutral Policy (Yue Guo & Zhuoxin Lu)
Evaluating Diffusion in Policy Designs: A Study of Net Metering Polices in the United States (Saba Siddiki)

Disasters, Crises, and Policy-Making: Expanding the Research Frontier - Panel 2

Chair: Deserai Crow

Student Commons Building, Boettcher Room 1401 (1^st floor)

Contesting and Anticipating the Acceptability of Crisis Policies: Criteria for Survival and Decision Coupling in the Shadow of Legal Oversight Complaints (Juho Mölsä)
Studying Policy Processes in Wicked Problems: Conceptual and Operationalisation Challenges (Jörgen Sparf)
Feedback Dynamics in Post-Disaster Governance: An Analysis of Affected Actions in a Long-Term Recovery (Fillipe Maciel Euclydes)

Understanding Climate Change Through a Policy Lens - Panel 2

Chair: Ryan Scott

Student Commons Building, Room 3208 (3^rd floor)

Nascent Subsystem Dynamics in the Advocacy Coalition Framework: The Case of Sea Level Rise Governance in the San Francisco Bay Area (Kyra Gmoser-Daskalakis, Tara Pozzi, Elise Zufall & Francesca Vantaggiato)
Shifting Governance to the Supranational Level Within the European Union Member States Using the Czech Republic as a Case Study (Tomas Lukavec)
When Households Make Policy: The Case of Municipal Energy Goals (Ryan P. Scott & Sam Houghteling)
Understanding the Food and Water Security Policy Process in Kenya (Fiona Wairimu Ngarachu)

Frames, Discourse, and Narratives: Role of Information, Data, and Tech in Policy and Political Attitudes

Chair: Melissa Merry

Student Commons Building, Room 3121 (3^rd floor)

Narrative Transportation and the Persuasive Power of the Film Don’t Look Up (Melissa K. Merry & Rodger Payne)
Weakening State Capacity and Wicked Problems in Latin America (Maria Alejandra Costa & Éric Montpetit)
No Experts Needed? Three Ways to Be Scientific and Opportunities for Empowerment in Policy-Making (Erik Baekkeskov)
Framing Bias in AI: Case of South Korea (Kyudong Park)

Latin America and Policy Processes Roundtable

Chairs: Raul Pacheco-Vega & Henrique Campos de Oliveria

Student Commons, Room 2000 (2^nd floor)

Juan David Gutiérrez, Jaime Sainz-Santamaria, Renata Bichir, Cecilia Osorio, Michelle Morais & Alejandro Estévez

Punctuated Equilibrium Theory

Chair: Samuel Workman

Student Commons, Room 2504 (2^nd floor)

County Budgetary Dynamics: Findings from Appalachia (Corinne Connor & Sam Workman)
A Stochastic Process Approach to Congressional Distributive Politics (Peter McLaughlin)
The Ladder of Disproportionate Policy: A Conceptual Exploration of the Full Spectrum of Disproportionate Policies and their Dynamics of Change (Moshe Maor)
Incorporating Civil Society into an Arenas Model for Global Health Agenda Setting: Concepts and an Analysis of Pandemic Era Tweets (Stephanie L. Smith)
Measuring the Stasis: Punctuated Equilibrium Theory and Partisan Polarization (Clare Brock & Daniel Mallinson)

Diverse Takes on Policy Processes

Chair: Aaron Smith-Walker

Student Commons, Room 1600 (1^st floor)

Public Policy Making and Process in Post-Independent India: A Retrospective Analysis of 75 Years’ Experience (E. Venkatesu & D. Veerababu)
Making Policy on the Clock: Developing a Theory of Policy Making During Transitions (Heath Brown)
Gender Balance in Five Decades of Public Policy Scholarship at the Policy Studies Journal – Progress or Stagnation? (Aaron Smith-Walter & Ryan Forrester)

Frames, Discourse, and Narratives: Political Voice and Policy

Chair: David Carter

Student Commons, Room 3208 (3^rd floor)

Narrative Homily: The First Step Act and Historical Deliberations Extrapolated Through the Narrative Politics Model (Maria Lungu)
Climate Gentrification and Resilience: A Critical Discourse Analysis (Serena Hoermann)
Playing Both Sides: How Political Elites Justify Overtly Oppressive Policy Decisions (David P. Carter & Juniper Katz)
Non-Citizen Political Engagement and Policy Processes in South Korea During Covid-19 (Felicia Istad)

ACF: Policy Change and Emerging Trends and Developments

Chair: Tim Heinmiller

Student Commons, Room 3121 (3^rdfloor)

Testing the Flexibility of Individual Policy Beliefs (Kristin L. Olofsson & Pavithra Priyadarshini Selvakumar)
Tracing Policy Changes in the Indian Climate Discourse: Comparing Policy Beliefs and Advocacy Coalitions During Copenhagen, Paris and Glasgow Climate Conferences (Rajshri Shukla & Pradip Swarnakar)
Stability Is a Fragile Thing – Learning on Policy Core Belief-Level Within the Advocacy Coalition Framework Explained with a Variables Intentions Model (Matthias Nopper)
ACF Policy Change Theory and the Method of Sequence Elaboration: The Case of Cannabis Legalization in Canada (Tim Heinmiller)

Disasters, Crises and Policy-Making: Expanding the Research Frontier - Panel 1

Chair: Daniel Nohrstedt

Student Commons Building, Room 2500A (2^ndFloor)

Lessons from a Decade of Studying Learning After Disaster (Deserai A. Crow & Elizabeth A. Albright)
Local Adaptation Policy Support and Preparedness Behavior After Extreme Weather (Hilary Boudet, Greg Stelmach, M. Usman A. Siddiqi, Chad Zanocco, L. Giordono & J. Flora)
Knowns and Unknowns About Disaster Policy-Making (Daniel Nohrstedt & Charles Parker)
Disaster, Crisis and Shock: A Meta-Analysis of Focusing Events in Public Policy (Thomas Birkland, Kristin Taylor & Robert DeLeo)

Saturday, January 14, 2023

Virtual Roundtable: What Is Essential Reading in Policy Process Research?

Chair: Paul Cairney

Student Commons Building, Room 2000 (2^nd floor)

Laura De Vito, Kaushiki Sanyal, Ellen Wayenberg & Elise Klein

Social Construction and Policy Design

Chair: Chris Koski

Student Commons Building, Room 2500A (2^nd floor)

The Policy Process: A Comparative Study of Education Policy Between Singapore and Thailand (Chitralada Chaiya & Mokbul Morshed Ahmad)
How Parties Price: The Democratic Governance of Drug Spending and Innovation (Elizabeth Pfeffer)
Tools or Targets? Investigating the Role of Policy Design in Preferences for Climate Policy Actions (Chris Koski & Paul Manson)
More Than a Monthly Problem: Period Poverty in the United States (Kelsey Arbuckle)
The Problematization of FRA Policy Design (Tejendra Pratap Gautam)

Policy Implementation

Chair: Tom Birkland

Student Commons Building, Room 2504 (2^nd floor)

Using Design Thinking to Evaluate Government Programs: Assessment of an Intervention That Aimed at Promoting the Use of Energy-Efficient Cookstoves in Rural Households (Juan David Gutiérrez & Sarah M. Muñoz-Cadena)
Winds of Change: How Street-Level Bureaucrats Actively Represent Minority Clients by Influencing Majority Clients: The Context of LGB Israeli Teachers (Maayan Davidovitz)
Multilevel Governance of Social Assistance Policy in Brazil (Renata Bichir)
Sustainability Transitions and Punctuated Socio-Political Regime Change: Explaining an Integrated Green Economy Policy Implementation in South Africa, 2002-2022 (Mapula Tshangela & Mark Swilling)
Rethinking Policy Implementation Research: Towards a Normative-Based Theorisation in the Wider Policy Process (K. C. Franco Ho)
Self-Organization, Utility or Enforced - The Formation of Policy Networks in Crisis Management (Pär Olausson)

MSF: Public Health and the Multiple Streams Framework

Chair: Nikolaos Zahariadis

Student Commons Building, Room 1500 (1^st floor)

Shifting Ideational Paradigms in Public Health: The Case of Greece (Vassilis Karokis-Mavrikos & Maria Mavrikou)
Turkey’s Pandemic Management: Insights from the Multiple Streams Framework Perspective (Lacin Idil Oztig)
The Chemical Framework: Exploring Europeanisation in French, Austrian, and Irish eHealth Policy Processes (Chloé Bérut)
The Multiple Streams Framework to a Nondemocracy: The Making of China’s Long-Awaited Soil Pollution Law (Annemieke van den Dool)

NPF: ‘Back to The Roots’ – The Narrative Policy Framework and Policy Debates

Chair: Bettina Stauffer

Student Commons Building, Room 1600 (1^st floor)

Introducing the Other as a Character in the Narrative Policy Framework: Analysis of the “Alien” Metaphor in the DREAM Act Congressional Hearings (Albena Dzhurova & Ryan Lofaro)
The Politics of Climate Change Framing. Political Construction of Narratives to Influence Problem Definition and Policy Solutions? (Simon Schaub)
Taking Stock: A Systematic Literature Review of the Narrative Policy Framework’s First Decade of Research (Johanna Kuenzler, Michael D. Jones, Caroline Schlaufer, Elizabeth A. Shanahan, Aaron Smith-Walter, Geoboo Song & Bettina Stauffer)
Narrative Strategies for Negotiating Social Citizenship in an Expanding Welfare State Context (Srinivas Yerramsetti, Manish Anand & Caroline Schlaufer)
The Effect of Policy Narratives on Policy Elite vs. Public Preferences for Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation (Ben Galloway, Chad Zanocco, Geoboo Song & Michael D. Jones)

Roundtable: Agency in the Policy Process: Policy Entrepreneurs, Leaders, and Brokers

Chair: Evie Petridou / Moderator: Jörgen Sparf

Student Commons Building, Room 3208 (3^rd floor)

Giliberto Capano, Tullia Galanti, Karin Ingold & Chris Weible

ACF: Advances in Theories and Methods

Chair: Kayla Gabehart

Student Commons Building, Room 3121 (3^rd floor)

Colorado’s “MeatOut”: An Examination of Executive Branch Policymaking, Rural Exclusion, and Culture and Identity as Policy Core Beliefs (Kayla M. Gabehart)
Short Term Continuity and Change of Advocacy Coalitions (Lina Y. Iskander & Nils C. Bandelow)
After Agreement: Coalition Stability and Policy Core Beliefs in a Longitudinal Perspective (Antti Gronow, Keiichi Satoh & Tuomas Ylä-Anttila)
Devil and Angel Shift in Policy Debates Between Opposing Advocacy Coalitions: An Analysis of South Korea’s Nuclear Energy Policy (Aerang Nam)
Policy Actor Belief Systems and Democracy in Municipal Housing Policy Subsystems (Jill Yordy)

Morality Policy and Policy Process - Panel 3: How Are Social Policies Changed, Implemented, and Measured?

Chair: Daniel Mallinson

Student Commons Building, Room 3018 (3^rd floor)

The Inter American Court of Human Rights's Measures of Non-Repetition and Their Impact in Public Policy Processes (Edward Pérez)
Affirmative Action in Brazilian Graduate Studies: A Longitudinal Study of Institutional Changes in Academic Programs at Public Universities (2002-2021) (Anna Carolina Venturini)
When Is It Time to Do a Policy Diffusion Study? (Daniel Mallinson & Tracee Saunders)
Crises and Learning in EU Asylum Policy: Discourse Networks in EU Newspapers (Laura Mastroianni)

Innovations in Agenda Setting

Chair: Brooke Shannon

Student Commons Building, Room 2600 (2^nd floor)

Conflict Expansion as a Mean to Depoliticize a Conflict: The Case of Israeli Policy in the West Bank (Ilana Shpaizman)
The Primary Problems: Minor Parties and the Policy Agenda in the United States, 1870-1945 (Brooke Shannon, E.J. Fagan & Bryan D. Jones)
The Cost of Closed Doors: Measuring the Agenda-Setting Function of Media Through Systemic Differences in Public Access to Child Abuse Courts (Nathan Witkin)
Regime Change and the Policy Agenda: Effects of Political System Development and Reform in Austin City Council, 1900-2020 (Brooke Shannon)
Federalism, State Policy Agendas and Growing Inequality in the U.S. (Christopher Witko & Nathan J. Kelly)