Namrata Goyal
Biographic Data
| ID | 162758 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Namrata Goyal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Namrata |
| FAMILY NAME | Goyal |
| SIGNATURE | GOYAL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Delft University of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1025-7585 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 274 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
How does knowledge utilization influence climate policy innovation? Energy modelling and the legitimization of the 55% target in the European Union
In order to accelerate the energy transition, policies have proven successful to reduce emissions, but more policy innovations are needed to reach carbon neutrality. Despite some understanding of the process of such innovations, the role of knowledge is not addressed in a systematic way. In particular, the role of energy models has not been investigated thoroughly. In this article, we examined the types of knowledge utilization and the ways in wh…
Why do stakeholders (not) participate in co-creation for energy access? A behavioural analysis of the Netherlands Energy Compact
Multi-stakeholder collaboration platforms are widely promoted as a way to accelerate progress on global challenges such as ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, and modern energy. Yet little is known about why individual stakeholders choose to participate (or not) in these arrangements, and what determines the depth of their engagement. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 21 professionals associated with the Netherlands Energy…
Does Subnational Climate Action Trigger a Tipping Point? Catalytic Cascading and Vertical Policy Diffusion in the Net‐Zero Transition
Subnational climate commitments are widely viewed as potential catalysts of national climate ambition, yet systematic evidence on whether and under what conditions subnational action shapes national target‐setting remains limited. We introduce the concept of catalytic cascading to describe a cumulative process in which expanding policy commitments change the likelihood of subsequent policy commitment, even at a different jurisdictional level, thr…
From opinion to action: Impact of social networks and information policy on private adaptation to floods
Despite efforts to mitigate climate change, adaptation becomes critical. Among climate-induced hazards, flooding is the most costly and widespread, calling for adaptation across scales: from government-led to household-led adaptation. Private adaptation measures, if taken, reduce damages and speed up recovery. Empirical evidence suggests that among socio-behavioral factors, social norms and peer influence are crucial for households’ decisions to …
Advice Across Cultures: How Autonomy, Dialecticism, and Responsibility Differentially Shape Advice Giving in the United States, China, and India
Advice-giving is a key form of social support, yet little is known about how its style varies across cultural contexts. Across three studies, we examined how Americans, Chinese, and Indians give, evaluate, and culturally transmit advice, drawing on the cultural logics of idiocentrism, dialecticism, and allocentrism. In Study 1, open-ended data revealed culturally distinct styles: autonomous advice among Americans, contingent advice among Chinese,…
Who shapes policy mixes in sustainability transitions? Types of policy entrepreneurship and mechanisms of institutional change
Policy mixes—strategic combinations of policy objectives and instruments—are crucial for addressing complex societal challenges in sustainability transitions. Yet, how their characteristics—such as consistency, coherence, and credibility—emerge, and who shapes them remains unclear. This study poses the question: what role do actors play in shaping the characteristics of policy mixes? By integrating a co-evolutionary framework of policy mixes with…
The Politics of Policy Robustness: A Central Paradox and Computational Review of Adaptive Policymaking
Policy robustness, that is, the capacity of policies to sustain performance across diverse and uncertain futures, is increasingly considered a core objective of public policymaking. Although adaptive policymaking is widely promoted as an approach to achieving policy robustness, it suffers from a central paradox highlighted by theories of the policy process: mechanisms intended to enable ongoing adjustment can generate entrenchment and opportunist…
From Niches to the Mainstream: A Computational Review and Research Agenda for Policy Innovation
Innovation in public policy is a rapidly expanding field, highlighting its critical role in addressing complex societal challenges. This bibliometric review (n = 17,264) synthesizes over 50 years of scholarship, systematically identifying key gaps, including conceptual fragmentation, limited theoretical engagement, methodological conservatism, and geographic and sectoral imbalance, and underutilization of the comparative perspective. These challe…
(Not) just policy success: Incorporating justice in policy evaluation
Despite the recognition that policy evaluations are inherently normative as they are shaped by political and social values, justice is rarely addressed systematically in policy evaluation practice or research. By overlooking structural inequities and failing to scrutinize power dynamics, this omission risks hindering accountability, legitimizing injustice, and inhibiting policy learning. To help bridge this gap, we build on the policy success heu…
How issue salience and political leadership facilitate policy integration: The adoption of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive in the European Union
Moral absolutism drives support for bans: Unpacking ideological differences in the moral philosophies of conservatives and liberals
Recent polls suggest conservatives are more likely than liberals to support bans on politicized practices, even when both groups view the practice as similarly immoral (e.g., abortion opposition among pro-life conservatives vs. pro-life liberals). We propose a novel theory to explain this phenomenon based on people's moral philosophies. Nine studies found that conservatives tended to endorse moral absolutism, whereas liberals tend to endorse mora…
Why do some people refuse to compromise their positions on politicized practices? The role of need for closure
When does the energy transition impact household affordability? A mixed-methods comparison of fourteen coal and carbon-intensive regions
Energy affordability tends to be lower in phasing-out than in transitioning regions. • Regional conditions are strongly associated with energy affordability. • Global policies misaligned with regional transitions can undermine affordability. • Regional fossil-fuel dependency is associated with low energy affordability. • Aligning energy transition and regional development plans can favor affordability. Understanding what conditions promote or hin…
A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: Combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy
Although causal evidence synthesis is critical for the policy sciences—whether it be analysis for policy or analysis of policy—its repeatable, systematic, and transparent execution remains challenging due to the growing volume, variety, and velocity of policy-relevant evidence generation as well as the complex web of relationships within which policies are usually situated. To address these shortcomings, we develop a novel, semi-automated approac…
Policy Innovation: An Introduction from the Special Section Editors
This editorial marks the relaunch of the Policy Innovation section of this journal,responding to the urgent need for innovative public policy amid global challenges such as climatechange, economic inequality, and technological disruption. It reflects on the journal’s pivotal contributions to the subject and underscores the importance of comparative analysis in drivingpolicy innovation. The section invites submissions that push theoretical and met…
Types of learning and varieties of innovation: How Does Policy Learning Enable Policy Innovation
Policy innovation is considered important for addressing major challenges such as climate change and the sustainable energy transition. Although policy learning is likely to play a key role in enabling policy innovation, the link between them remains unclear despite much research on both topics. To address this gap, we move beyond a binary treatment of policy innovation and differentiate policy problem innovation from policy instrument innovation…
Beliefs in inevitable justice curb revenge behaviours: Cultural perspectives on karma
Across cultures, people believe that moral actions have ‘karmic’ consequences. Do cultures share assumptions about how karma operates? Four studies ( N = 1114) assessed cultural differences in perceptions of inevitability associated with karmic justice and whether perceiving karma as inevitable curbs antisocial behaviours, such as revenge. Study 1 found that Indians perceived karmic justice as more inevitable than Americans and reported lower rev…
Spheres of immanent justice: Sacred violations evoke expectations of cosmic punishment, irrespective of societal punishment
Value Change, Value Conflict, and Policy Innovation: Understanding the Opposition to the Market-Based Economic Dispatch of Electricity Scheme in India Using the Multiple Streams Framework
As policy innovation is essential for upscaling responsible innovation, understanding its relationship to value change(s) occurring or sought in sociotechnical systems is imperative. In this study, we ask: what are the different types of values in the policy process? And, how does value change influence policy innovation? We propose a disaggregation of values and value change based on a four-stream variant of the multiple streams framework (MSF),…
Gratitude endures while indebtedness persuades: Investigating the unique influences of gratitude and indebtedness in helping
What is the temporal course of gratitude and indebtedness and how do these feelings influence helping in the context of reciprocity? In an online-game tapping real-life behaviour, Study 1 (N = 106) finds that while gratitude towards a benefactor remains elevated after an opportunity to reciprocate, indebtedness declines along with helping. Yet, indebtedness rather than gratitude better predicts real-life helping of a benefactor. Using a vignette-…
Whither policy innovation? Mapping conceptual engagement with public policy in energy transitions research
A transition to sustainable energy will require not only technological diffusion and behavioral change, but also policy innovation. While research on energy transitions has generated an extensive literature, the extent to which it has used the policy innovation perspective – entailing policy entrepreneurship or invention, policy diffusion, and policy success – remains unclear. This study analyzes over 8000 publications on energy transitions throu…
The association of in-utero exposure to ambient fine particulate air pollution with low birth weight in India
A growing body of research indicates that in-utero exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) is a risk factor for low birth weight (LBW). However, research on India, where the high and rising level of ambient air pollution is a significant health concern, is limited. In this study, we analyze the association between ambient PM 2.5 and LBW in India. We match data on birth weight from the National Family and Health Survey (NFHS) conduct…
Explaining Policy Success Using the Multiple Streams Framework: Political Success Despite Programmatic Failure of the Solar Energy Policy in Gujarat, India
Although many scholars have studied policy success and failure, the relationship of these phenomena to the policy process—essential for an explanatory or anticipatory analysis—remains unclear. I address this gap by linking the policy success heuristic with the multiple streams framework (MSF) and developing hypotheses to explain outcomes. I apply this conceptualization to the case of the solar energy policy in Gujarat, India by combining a qualit…
Measuring the Mix” of Policy Responses to Covid-19: Comparative Policy Analysis Using Topic Modelling
Although understanding initial responses to a crisis such as COVID-19 is important, existing research on the topic has not been systematically comparative. This study uses topic modeling to inductively analyze over 13,000 COVID-19 policies worldwide. This technique enables the COVID-19 policy mixes to be characterized and their cross-country variation to be compared. Significant variation was found in the intensity, density, and balance of policy…
Policy Diffusion Through Multiple Streams: The (Non‐)Adoption of Energy Conservation Building Code in India
Although the diffusion of policy innovations can promote sustainability, how this process can be accelerated remains unclear. I address this gap by conceptualizing policy transfer and policy diffusion using the multiple streams framework (MSF) and developing hypotheses to connect them. I apply this theorization to explain the limited spread of the energy conservation building code (ECBC) in India by combining a process trace of policy adoption in…
Mobilizing Policy (In)Capacity to Fight Covid-19: Understanding Variations in State Responses
The objective of this collection of essays is to gain insights into the different national-level state responses to COVID-19 around the world and the conditions that shaped them. The pandemic offers a natural experiment wherein the policy problem governments faced was the same but the responses they made were different, creating opportunities for comparison of both the kinds of policy tools being used and the factors that accounted for their choi…
Why and how does the regulation of emerging technologies occur? Explaining the adoption of the EU General Data Protection Regulation using the multiple streams framework
Why and how the regulation of emerging technologies occurs is not clear in the literature. In this study, we adapt the multiple streams framework – often used for explaining agenda‐setting and policy adoption – to examine the phenomenon. We hypothesize how technological change affects policy‐making and identify conditions under which the streams can be (de‐)coupled. We trace the formulation of the General Data Protection Regulation to show that t…
Who learns what in sustainability transitions
Policy Diffusion Through Multiple Streams: The (Non‐)Adoption of Energy Conservation Building Code in India
Although the diffusion of policy innovations can promote sustainability, how this process can be accelerated remains unclear. I address this gap by conceptualizing policy transfer and policy diffusion using the multiple streams framework (MSF) and developing hypotheses to connect them. I apply this theorization to explain the limited spread of the energy conservation building code (ECBC) in India by combining a process trace of policy adoption in…
Types of learning and varieties of innovation: How Does Policy Learning Enable Policy Innovation
Policy innovation is considered important for addressing major challenges such as climate change and the sustainable energy transition. Although policy learning is likely to play a key role in enabling policy innovation, the link between them remains unclear despite much research on both topics. To address this gap, we move beyond a binary treatment of policy innovation and differentiate policy problem innovation from policy instrument innovation…
Measuring the Mix” of Policy Responses to Covid-19: Comparative Policy Analysis Using Topic Modelling
Although understanding initial responses to a crisis such as COVID-19 is important, existing research on the topic has not been systematically comparative. This study uses topic modeling to inductively analyze over 13,000 COVID-19 policies worldwide. This technique enables the COVID-19 policy mixes to be characterized and their cross-country variation to be compared. Significant variation was found in the intensity, density, and balance of policy…
Framework or metaphor? Analysing the status of policy learning in the policy sciences
Recently, it has been argued that the many works on policy learning constitute a stand-alone basis for understanding policy processes. In this study, we evaluate this claim through a bibliometric analysis of 588 publications on the topic in the Web of Science database, complemented by a literature review. We find that while the study of learning is supported by an active and growing research community, it has neither definitional clarity nor a sh…
Holding out the promise of Lasswell's dream: Big data analytics in public policy research and teaching
While the emergence of big data raises concerns regarding governance and public policy, it also creates opportunities for diversifying the toolkit for analysis for the policy sciences as a whole, i.e., research concerning policy analysis as well as policy studies. Further, it opens avenues for practice, which together with research requires adaptation in teaching curricula if policy education were to remain relevant. However, it is not clear to w…
A “review” of policy sciences: Bibliometric analysis of authors, references, and topics during 1970–2017
Explaining Policy Success Using the Multiple Streams Framework: Political Success Despite Programmatic Failure of the Solar Energy Policy in Gujarat, India
Although many scholars have studied policy success and failure, the relationship of these phenomena to the policy process—essential for an explanatory or anticipatory analysis—remains unclear. I address this gap by linking the policy success heuristic with the multiple streams framework (MSF) and developing hypotheses to explain outcomes. I apply this conceptualization to the case of the solar energy policy in Gujarat, India by combining a qualit…
When does the energy transition impact household affordability? A mixed-methods comparison of fourteen coal and carbon-intensive regions
Energy affordability tends to be lower in phasing-out than in transitioning regions. • Regional conditions are strongly associated with energy affordability. • Global policies misaligned with regional transitions can undermine affordability. • Regional fossil-fuel dependency is associated with low energy affordability. • Aligning energy transition and regional development plans can favor affordability. Understanding what conditions promote or hin…
Policy Innovation: An Introduction from the Special Section Editors
This editorial marks the relaunch of the Policy Innovation section of this journal,responding to the urgent need for innovative public policy amid global challenges such as climatechange, economic inequality, and technological disruption. It reflects on the journal’s pivotal contributions to the subject and underscores the importance of comparative analysis in drivingpolicy innovation. The section invites submissions that push theoretical and met…
Beliefs in inevitable justice curb revenge behaviours: Cultural perspectives on karma
Across cultures, people believe that moral actions have ‘karmic’ consequences. Do cultures share assumptions about how karma operates? Four studies ( N = 1114) assessed cultural differences in perceptions of inevitability associated with karmic justice and whether perceiving karma as inevitable curbs antisocial behaviours, such as revenge. Study 1 found that Indians perceived karmic justice as more inevitable than Americans and reported lower rev…
Norm-based spontaneous categorization: Cultural norms shape meaning and memory
We highlight the role that culture-specific norms play in cognitively predisposing individuals to organize information in the environment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: Combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy
Although causal evidence synthesis is critical for the policy sciences—whether it be analysis for policy or analysis of policy—its repeatable, systematic, and transparent execution remains challenging due to the growing volume, variety, and velocity of policy-relevant evidence generation as well as the complex web of relationships within which policies are usually situated. To address these shortcomings, we develop a novel, semi-automated approac…
Culture and the development of views of agency: Perspectives from storybooks, parents, and children
The present three-study investigation examined cultural influences on the internalization of social expectations. Testing the claim of self-determination theory that lesser internalization of social expectations is linked to socialization practices that portray social expectations as in conflict with autonomy, in Study 1 we undertook a content analysis of the views of social expectations portrayed in American and Indian storybooks. Results indica…
The Importance of Timing in Reciprocity: An Investigation of Reciprocity Norms Among Indians and Americans
After receiving help, individuals tend to experience an immediate increase in obligation to be responsive to the helper. Cross-cultural research has shown that whereas this sense of obligation dissipates for Americans after reciprocation, it remains unchanged after reciprocation for Indians. Is this decrease in obligation felt by Americans temporary, or can it endure over years such that it provides immunity from responding to the helper? And is …
(Not) just policy success: Incorporating justice in policy evaluation
Despite the recognition that policy evaluations are inherently normative as they are shaped by political and social values, justice is rarely addressed systematically in policy evaluation practice or research. By overlooking structural inequities and failing to scrutinize power dynamics, this omission risks hindering accountability, legitimizing injustice, and inhibiting policy learning. To help bridge this gap, we build on the policy success heu…
Whither policy innovation? Mapping conceptual engagement with public policy in energy transitions research
A transition to sustainable energy will require not only technological diffusion and behavioral change, but also policy innovation. While research on energy transitions has generated an extensive literature, the extent to which it has used the policy innovation perspective – entailing policy entrepreneurship or invention, policy diffusion, and policy success – remains unclear. This study analyzes over 8000 publications on energy transitions throu…
Combining internal and external evaluations within a multilevel evaluation framework: Computational text analysis of lessons from the Asian Development Bank
Although the literature on evaluation has theorized about the distinction between internal and external evaluation, hardly any research has compared them empirically. This article examines whether the lessons of internal evaluations differed from those of external evaluations in the case of international development aid. It analyzes internal evaluations of the Asian Development Bank for nearly 1000 sovereign interventions across 38 countries in t…
Capacity, control, and content: The supply of think tank policy advice in India
Despite growing research on policy advice, little is known about how and why the nature of policy advice varies. We hypothesize that examining policy capacity and control within the policy advisory system (PAS) is useful in this regard. We examine how government capacity, think tank capacity, and think tank autonomy influence the content of policy advice in India. We code policy advice based on content analysis of 60 knowledge products from think…
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: The Influence of Visuospatial and Verbal Cognitive Styles on Empathy and Willingness to Help
We examined the relationship between cognitive style, empathy, and willingness to help. In Study 1 (N = 186), we measured preference for visuospatial or verbal cognitive style using the ZenQ ( Zenhausern, 1978 ), and empathy using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index ( Davis, 1983 ). In Study 2 (N = 76), we experimentally elicited verbal or visual cognitive processing via priming and measured empathy in response to a vignette about a woman injured …
Exposure to Ambient Fine Particulate Air Pollution in Utero as a Risk Factor for Child Stunting in Bangladesh
Pregnant mothers in Bangladesh are exposed to very high and worsening levels of ambient air pollution. Maternal exposure to fine particulate matter has been associated with low birth weight at much lower levels of exposure, leading us to suspect the potentially large effects of air pollution on stunting in children in Bangladesh. We estimate the relationship between exposure to air pollution in utero and child stunting by pooling outcome data fro…
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words: The Influence of Visuospatial and Verbal Cognitive Styles on Empathy and Willingness to Help
We examined the relationship between cognitive style, empathy, and willingness to help. In Study 1 (N = 186), we measured preference for visuospatial or verbal cognitive style using the ZenQ ( Zenhausern, 1978 ), and empathy using the Interpersonal Reactivity Index ( Davis, 1983 ). In Study 2 (N = 76), we experimentally elicited verbal or visual cognitive processing via priming and measured empathy in response to a vignette about a woman injured …
A “review” of policy sciences: Bibliometric analysis of authors, references, and topics during 1970–2017
Contributions and challenges of cultural research on the development of social cognition
Framework or metaphor? Analysing the status of policy learning in the policy sciences
Recently, it has been argued that the many works on policy learning constitute a stand-alone basis for understanding policy processes. In this study, we evaluate this claim through a bibliometric analysis of 588 publications on the topic in the Web of Science database, complemented by a literature review. We find that while the study of learning is supported by an active and growing research community, it has neither definitional clarity nor a sh…
The Importance of Timing in Reciprocity: An Investigation of Reciprocity Norms Among Indians and Americans
After receiving help, individuals tend to experience an immediate increase in obligation to be responsive to the helper. Cross-cultural research has shown that whereas this sense of obligation dissipates for Americans after reciprocation, it remains unchanged after reciprocation for Indians. Is this decrease in obligation felt by Americans temporary, or can it endure over years such that it provides immunity from responding to the helper? And is …
Combining internal and external evaluations within a multilevel evaluation framework: Computational text analysis of lessons from the Asian Development Bank
Although the literature on evaluation has theorized about the distinction between internal and external evaluation, hardly any research has compared them empirically. This article examines whether the lessons of internal evaluations differed from those of external evaluations in the case of international development aid. It analyzes internal evaluations of the Asian Development Bank for nearly 1000 sovereign interventions across 38 countries in t…
Capacity, control, and content: The supply of think tank policy advice in India
Despite growing research on policy advice, little is known about how and why the nature of policy advice varies. We hypothesize that examining policy capacity and control within the policy advisory system (PAS) is useful in this regard. We examine how government capacity, think tank capacity, and think tank autonomy influence the content of policy advice in India. We code policy advice based on content analysis of 60 knowledge products from think…
Culture and the development of views of agency: Perspectives from storybooks, parents, and children
The present three-study investigation examined cultural influences on the internalization of social expectations. Testing the claim of self-determination theory that lesser internalization of social expectations is linked to socialization practices that portray social expectations as in conflict with autonomy, in Study 1 we undertook a content analysis of the views of social expectations portrayed in American and Indian storybooks. Results indica…
Performance determinants show European cities are delivering on climate mitigation
Mobilizing Policy (In)Capacity to Fight Covid-19: Understanding Variations in State Responses
The objective of this collection of essays is to gain insights into the different national-level state responses to COVID-19 around the world and the conditions that shaped them. The pandemic offers a natural experiment wherein the policy problem governments faced was the same but the responses they made were different, creating opportunities for comparison of both the kinds of policy tools being used and the factors that accounted for their choi…
Norm-based spontaneous categorization: Cultural norms shape meaning and memory
We highlight the role that culture-specific norms play in cognitively predisposing individuals to organize information in the environment. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Who learns what in sustainability transitions
The association of in-utero exposure to ambient fine particulate air pollution with low birth weight in India
A growing body of research indicates that in-utero exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) is a risk factor for low birth weight (LBW). However, research on India, where the high and rising level of ambient air pollution is a significant health concern, is limited. In this study, we analyze the association between ambient PM 2.5 and LBW in India. We match data on birth weight from the National Family and Health Survey (NFHS) conduct…
Explaining Policy Success Using the Multiple Streams Framework: Political Success Despite Programmatic Failure of the Solar Energy Policy in Gujarat, India
Although many scholars have studied policy success and failure, the relationship of these phenomena to the policy process—essential for an explanatory or anticipatory analysis—remains unclear. I address this gap by linking the policy success heuristic with the multiple streams framework (MSF) and developing hypotheses to explain outcomes. I apply this conceptualization to the case of the solar energy policy in Gujarat, India by combining a qualit…
Measuring the Mix” of Policy Responses to Covid-19: Comparative Policy Analysis Using Topic Modelling
Although understanding initial responses to a crisis such as COVID-19 is important, existing research on the topic has not been systematically comparative. This study uses topic modeling to inductively analyze over 13,000 COVID-19 policies worldwide. This technique enables the COVID-19 policy mixes to be characterized and their cross-country variation to be compared. Significant variation was found in the intensity, density, and balance of policy…
Policy Diffusion Through Multiple Streams: The (Non‐)Adoption of Energy Conservation Building Code in India
Although the diffusion of policy innovations can promote sustainability, how this process can be accelerated remains unclear. I address this gap by conceptualizing policy transfer and policy diffusion using the multiple streams framework (MSF) and developing hypotheses to connect them. I apply this theorization to explain the limited spread of the energy conservation building code (ECBC) in India by combining a process trace of policy adoption in…
Why and how does the regulation of emerging technologies occur? Explaining the adoption of the EU General Data Protection Regulation using the multiple streams framework
Why and how the regulation of emerging technologies occurs is not clear in the literature. In this study, we adapt the multiple streams framework – often used for explaining agenda‐setting and policy adoption – to examine the phenomenon. We hypothesize how technological change affects policy‐making and identify conditions under which the streams can be (de‐)coupled. We trace the formulation of the General Data Protection Regulation to show that t…
Holding out the promise of Lasswell's dream: Big data analytics in public policy research and teaching
While the emergence of big data raises concerns regarding governance and public policy, it also creates opportunities for diversifying the toolkit for analysis for the policy sciences as a whole, i.e., research concerning policy analysis as well as policy studies. Further, it opens avenues for practice, which together with research requires adaptation in teaching curricula if policy education were to remain relevant. However, it is not clear to w…
Value Change, Value Conflict, and Policy Innovation: Understanding the Opposition to the Market-Based Economic Dispatch of Electricity Scheme in India Using the Multiple Streams Framework
As policy innovation is essential for upscaling responsible innovation, understanding its relationship to value change(s) occurring or sought in sociotechnical systems is imperative. In this study, we ask: what are the different types of values in the policy process? And, how does value change influence policy innovation? We propose a disaggregation of values and value change based on a four-stream variant of the multiple streams framework (MSF),…
Gratitude endures while indebtedness persuades: Investigating the unique influences of gratitude and indebtedness in helping
What is the temporal course of gratitude and indebtedness and how do these feelings influence helping in the context of reciprocity? In an online-game tapping real-life behaviour, Study 1 (N = 106) finds that while gratitude towards a benefactor remains elevated after an opportunity to reciprocate, indebtedness declines along with helping. Yet, indebtedness rather than gratitude better predicts real-life helping of a benefactor. Using a vignette-…
Whither policy innovation? Mapping conceptual engagement with public policy in energy transitions research
A transition to sustainable energy will require not only technological diffusion and behavioral change, but also policy innovation. While research on energy transitions has generated an extensive literature, the extent to which it has used the policy innovation perspective – entailing policy entrepreneurship or invention, policy diffusion, and policy success – remains unclear. This study analyzes over 8000 publications on energy transitions throu…
Beliefs in inevitable justice curb revenge behaviours: Cultural perspectives on karma
Across cultures, people believe that moral actions have ‘karmic’ consequences. Do cultures share assumptions about how karma operates? Four studies ( N = 1114) assessed cultural differences in perceptions of inevitability associated with karmic justice and whether perceiving karma as inevitable curbs antisocial behaviours, such as revenge. Study 1 found that Indians perceived karmic justice as more inevitable than Americans and reported lower rev…
Spheres of immanent justice: Sacred violations evoke expectations of cosmic punishment, irrespective of societal punishment
When does the energy transition impact household affordability? A mixed-methods comparison of fourteen coal and carbon-intensive regions
Energy affordability tends to be lower in phasing-out than in transitioning regions. • Regional conditions are strongly associated with energy affordability. • Global policies misaligned with regional transitions can undermine affordability. • Regional fossil-fuel dependency is associated with low energy affordability. • Aligning energy transition and regional development plans can favor affordability. Understanding what conditions promote or hin…
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