While emotions are an inherent component of the human experience that influence
behavior, values, and beliefs, they have largely been left out of policy process studies …

Many theories and approaches to policy studies have recently begun to question and
research how emotions interact with peoples' understanding and behaviors, especially in …

Emotions are central to human behavior and, consequently, play a significant role in
policymaking. While the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) incorporates the notion of …

Does anxiety affect how public officials process policy information? It is often argued that the
increasing number of policy failures can be explained by a lack of policy learning by …

Emotions are gaining increasing attention in public policy. Policy process research so far
has focused on the effects of emotions rather than their roots. In social psychology, emotions …

Abstract The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) has provided policy scholars with a valuable
method to gain empirical insight into the power of narratives in the policy process. However …

Do presidential climate change narratives increase related congressional attention in the
United States? Narrative theory says since narratives leverage cognitive heuristics, they …

In this article, using the French pension reform in 2020 as a case, we demonstrate how a
focus on emotions helps us to better understand important policy dynamics. While existing …

While many policy process theories mention emotions, they have remained mostly
unexplored theoretically and empirically, even as broader social science literature …

Abstract The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) has emerged as an indispensable
instrument in public policy research, influencing the design, development, and …