Whether additional natural gas infrastructure is needed or would be detrimental to achieving
climate protection goals is currently highly controversial. Here we combine five perspectives …

Recent disasters have demonstrated the challenges faced by society as a result of the
increasing complexity of disaster risk. In this perspective article, we discuss the complex …

Since the mid-1990s, discourse analysis has become an increasingly established
framework in environmental policy analysis. The field has diversified in terms of conceptual …

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

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

Policy makers cannot consider all evidence relevant to policy. They use two shortcuts—
emotions and beliefs to understand problems and “rational” ways of establishing the best …

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

In order to reconfigure global socio-economic systems to be compatible with social
imperatives and planetary boundaries, a transition towards sustainable development is …

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

Narrative has been observed to be central to the policy process–constituting public policy
instruments, persuading decision makers and the public, and shaping all stages of the policy …