Public policy emerged as an academic subfield in the United States after the second World
War. The theoretical foundations of the discipline are essentially based on analyses of Anglo …

Public support for and voluntary compliance with protective policy measures are crucial to
mitigating the spread of infectious disease. However, it is unclear why and how people with …

Since the security of energy supply in Europe is at stake, the debate on energy sources
prominently took hold on the agenda of European countries. Nuclear energy is one of the …

Comparative public policy is a blooming research area. It also suffers from some curious
blind spots. In this paper we discuss four of these:(1) the obsession with covariance, which …

Public support is a key contributor to successful policy adoption and implementation. Given
the urgency of climate change mitigation, scholars have explored various determinants that …

The sociology of emotions reveals how emotion contributes to and helps inform social and
political issues. This study contributes to the literature by examining how competing …

What explains party preference? Ideology and values do but these explanations are
undertheorized. We offer grid-group cultural theory (CT) to provide a theory of ideology and …

Cultural Theory has been tested in various ways and across different topics. This study
sought to extend the literature on Cultural Theory's prediction that different cultural biases …

This study sets out to understand the role of cultural worldviews, risk perceptions, and trust in
scientists in impacting US participants' support for COVID-19 mandatory vaccination. Results …

Policy preferences are a key element in understanding the policy process. In this article, we
conceptualise policy preferences as latent constructs, which can be identified in an inductive …