Do media influence policy making? To what extent can governments or other actors
manipulate this influence? Our understanding of the relationship between media and policy …

Increasing intensity and frequency of climate-related disasters such as floods and droughts
challenge existing governance models of disaster risk reduction. This paper systematically …

Risk management has reduced vulnerability to floods and droughts globally,, yet their
impacts are still increasing. An improved understanding of the causes of changing impacts is …

Does social protest following the police killing of unarmed Black civilians have a widespread
“opinion-mobilizing” effect against the police? Or, does the racialized nature of these events …

This is an open access book. This book offers the first overview of the 'wicked problems'
literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, with both the nature of the …

Climate change poses a challenge to countries across the world, with news media being an
important source of information on the issue. To understand how and how much news media …

Are legislators responsive to the priorities of the public? Research demonstrates a strong
correspondence between the issues about which the public cares and the issues addressed …

John Kingdon's multiple-streams framework has been widely used since the publication of
his book Agendas, Alternatives and Public Policies in 1984. The popularity of this agenda …

This article joins with others in this special issue to examine the evolution of our
understanding of how the coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 pandemic impacted policy ideas …

Meta-reviews of the implementation literature have constantly bemoaned a lack of theory in
this area. This is partially a function of the policy sciences having inherited a tradition of …