Nils C Bandelow
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 284330 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nils C Bandelow |
| PRENOMES | Nils C |
| SOBRENOME | Bandelow |
| ASSINATURA | BANDELOW N C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Technische Universität Braunschweig |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6745-3253 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 78 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 226 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 74 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Narratives and Framing in Policy Making
Narratives and framing have become central analytical tools in research on policy processes and shape the understanding of attention shifts, coalition dynamics, and policy change. Building on this dynamic, recent work has attempted to combine the analysis of narratives with institutional approaches (Schlaufer et al. 2022; Domorenok and Graziano 2023). In doing so, it has been recognized that narratives not only explain policy conflict, but also s…
Collaboration and participation in governance
Policy Design, Diffusion, and Policy Instrument Attitudes
Crisis management across Europe
A Multidimensional Operationalization of Policy Change
Policy change is a core variable of policy process research. Several theories and frameworks distinguish different levels of policy change. These include minor change vs. major change (Advocacy Coalition Framework), incrementalism vs. nonincrementalism (Multiple Streams Framework), punctuations vs. equilibrium (Punctuated Equilibrium Theory), first order vs. second order vs. third order change (Policy Paradigm Perspective), and types of policy fo…
Latent target groups—A methodological contribution of social identities to policy design research
Research on policy design underscores the importance of accurately identifying target groups to effectively design policy measures that change individual behavior, address societal problems, and achieve policy objectives. However, empirical research on the composition and characteristics of target groups is rare and primarily draws on a commonly used typology to highlight the social construction of target groups. Tying in with and adding to this …
Social identities, emotions and policy preferences
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 are a central part of social identity theory (SIT), and the relevance of social identities in the policy process (SIPP) has recently been acknowledged. This raises the question of how the identification with social groups is linked to emotions related to policies …
Issue Networks in German Health Insurance Policy
Digital citizen participation in policy conflict and concord
Infrastructure siting has been shown to lead to high contestation across political systems. To counteract this, policymaking has introduced participatory instruments that were recently supplemented by web‐based tools. Drawing on theoretical perspectives on policy conflict, this paper investigates how different conflict intensities reflected in public discourses can shape citizens' perceptions on the potential and limitations of digital participat…
Networks and perception in European policymaking
Summer is the time for conferences and the release of new journal rankings. For the editorial teams of journals specializing in policy process research, including European Policy Analysis (EPA), both are interconnected. Ideally, they both help to increase the chances of attracting more high-quality submissions and special issues, while also promoting the journal among readers and reviewers. The citation scores for 2023 remained very high for EPA.…
Multilevel interdependencies and policy capacity in Europe
This issue celebrates the tenth volume of the European Policy Analysis (EPA) journal. EPA started in 2015 as the successor to German Policy Studies (GPS), which was edited by Nils C. Bandelow, Fritz Sager, and Klaus Schubert from 2000 to 2013. GPS was a platform for policy process research from the German-speaking countries Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. It published two issues per year, which were often organized by guest editors. Although G…
What determines effectiveness in the policy process
Public policies should ideally be formulated to address a societal problem and being effective in solving it, both in what regards the effectiveness of the process of their development and in their effect on the target population (Bali et al., 2019; Huber et al., 2020; Knill et al., 2020). Thereby, effectiveness can concern different aspects: It can be related to the coordination or collaboration between policy actors, it can refer to the effecti…
Discourses and bottom‐up policymaking in Europe and the EU
Artificial intelligence (AI), climate change, COVID-19, financial budgets, religion and state in Israel—the challenges that the EU and countries in Europe face today seem to increase rather than decrease. This EPA issue includes contributions that show the extent of diversity with which European policy research deals with these topics. The articles draw from different theoretical and/or methodological approaches to analyze the capacity of Europea…
From local networks to national reform? Programmatic groups in the regionalization of German health policy
Before policy reform initiatives reach the agenda of national decision makers, such initiatives often start at a small‐scale, local level. The Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) emphasizes the importance of biographical connections to understand how a group of policy actors forms, and how it develops programs that may lead to decade‐long policy change. This article applies the PAF to study the emergence of a programmatic group behind initiatives…
Cultural biases, agenda setting, and the regulation of policy processes
What are pressing topics to be addressed by public policy, how do they interact with citizens' values and preferences, and what type of regulation is used or preferred? This issue of the Review of Policy Research (RPR) touches upon the intersection of agenda setting, cultural theory, and regulation at three different levels. First, COVID-19 still presents a core interest of public policy research, given the pandemic's short-term and long-term inf…
Information and expertise in public policy
The COVID-19 crisis has stimulated renewed interest in research on the relationship between science and policy. Even before the pandemic, research on policy advisory systems had flourished. Initially, research contributions on science–policy relations focused on the extent to which policy advice was provided inside or outside of government and under governmental control (Halligan, 1993), until trends toward politicization and externalization were…
Stories, emotions, and governmental strategies
When writing this introduction, we just returned home from the second edition of the Conference on Policy Process Research (COPPR), which took place and was organized at the Center for Policy Design and Governance of the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Syracuse, USA. We would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank the organizing team, particularly Saba Siddiki, Davor Mondom, Chris Weible, and Allegra Fullerton, for mak…
The Winds of Winter
In the second half of the 19th legislative period, COVID-19 brought the issue of health policy firmly into the public limelight. Given that it amplified already existing challenges, this crisis can be conceptualised as a case of positive feedback in the understanding of punctuated equilibrium theory (PET). One would have expected this crisis to provide a push for reforms in the areas of digitalisation, hospital and care policy, as these represent…
Political framing, actors, and effects of global issues
The EPA editorial team wishes our readers, contributors, and supporters a Happy New Year 2023! We are glad to present you this year's first issue of European Policy Analysis which comprises four empirical articles that investigate the political framing, actors, and effects of global issues. These include environmental protection, animal welfare, and migration on the national and supranational levels. The papers present different approaches to stu…
Energy efficiency, housing, and economic policy
Summer is always an exciting period of the year for journal editors because citation indices publish the latest journal-specific performance indicators. For our European Policy Analysis (EPA) journal, this year has brought amazing news. Not only has our SCOPUS CiteScore risen from 5.3 to 7.8, which is an increase by almost 50%.1 It is also the first year that Clarivate Analytics, which publishes the Journal Citation Reports within the Web of Scie…
Market‐based instruments and research infrastructures
When writing this introduction, the year 2023 is only young but already started fantastically with the great first Conference on Policy Process Research, hosted by the University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs that took place in a hybrid format from January 12 to January 14, 2023. The Review of Policy Research was a co-sponsor of COPPR and editors, authors, reviewers, and other contributors to the RPR were solidly represented at this…
Institutional environments and innovation in digital policy
Over the past decade, technological changes have had a strong influence on society and science worldwide. Information and communications technology, big data, and artificial intelligence are only some digital innovations that have been transforming the research and practice of public policy. The impact of such technologies has recently become even more noticeable, for instance, through the prominence of machine learning chatbots. This raises seve…
Perception and performance in environmental policy
Triggers and Hierarchies of Social Identities in the European Parliament
Research on dynamics within the European Parliament frequently draws on group‐based explanations – such as parties and national affiliations – for the behaviour of its members. Hence, there is a growing interest in the question of how policy issues trigger the salience of group memberships and whether partisan or national group memberships – and which of them – rank higher when voting on issues. This article provides answers to these questions by…
Relational coupling of multiple streams
After a series of COVID‐19 outbreaks among employees in the German meat‐processing industry, the Work Safety Control Act protecting these workers made it on the government's agenda in July 2020. From a Multiple Streams perspective, local corona hotspots may be understood as policy windows for introducing respective measures. However, this alone is not sufficient to explain agenda setting. This study investigates the coupling of streams within pol…
Social identities in the policy process
This paper introduces social identity theory and self-categorization theory to policy process research. Drawing from the prominent and widely acknowledged psychological social identity approach, it develops the theoretical concept of social identities in the policy process (SIPP) and advances the understanding of policy actors' behavior. Compared to psychological foundations of existing theories of the policy process, the social identity approach…
Learning as a Necessary but Not Sufficient Condition for Major Health Policy Change
Following the financial crisis, Bismarckian health systems underwent some major reforms. This article analyzes under which conditions major reforms occurred. To do so, it theoretically combines conditions from the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) and the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) to emphasize the added value of merging them to explain major policy change. By combining these two approaches, it is possible to present a more comprehensive p…
Layering Action Situations to Integrate Spatial Scales, Resource Linkages, and Change over Time
This paper contributes to the integration of the study of multiple (i) spatial scales, (ii) resource systems, and (iii) points in time in natural resource governance by introducing a strategy of layering action situations. In the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework, action situations can be studied singularly, in comparison, or as networks of action situations. Building on this work, we propose to complement an established action sit…
One discourse to rule them all? Narrating the agenda for labor market policies in France and Germany
Despite different institutional and situational conditions, the recent French labor market reforms bear a strong resemblance to the labor market reforms in Germany in the early 2000s. Governments at both points in time turned away from the conservative welfare state model and failed to appropriately legitimize their reforms toward the public as well as their originally partly social-democratic electorate. Given the diverging conditions which are …
Social identities, emotions and policy preferences
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 are a central part of social identity theory (SIT), and the relevance of social identities in the policy process (SIPP) has recently been acknowledged. This raises the question of how the identification with social groups is linked to emotions related to policies …
Agri‐food technology politics
The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) highlights the role of arguments and emotions included in stories to influence the policy process. Most applications refer to highly politicized issues. How are narratives used in less politicized debates? This paper applies the NPF to two debates within the European Parliament (EP) which generally gain less public media attention than national debates. By conducting a discourse network analysis of two policy …
Party Identification and Cultural Theory in Europe
To enhance comparative studies of the ACF, this contribution provides empirical evidence for the measurement of deep normative core beliefs and cultural theory through partisan affiliation. It assesses the interplay between cultural worldviews, partisanship, and policy core beliefs by means of linear regression analyses and correlation statistics to answer the question how deep normative core beliefs are best operationalized across and within Eur…
Patterns of Democracy Matter in the Covid-19 Crisis
COVID-19 poses a new challenge to governmental decision-making. With a great level of uncertainty regarding the roots, distribution, prevention, and effects of the pandemic, and with scientific insights and recommendations changing on a daily basis, politicians face the difficult task of reacting quickly but justifiably to the developments. Neo-institutional perspectives of policy research can contribute to the understanding of similarities and d…
Policy programme cycles through old and new programmatic groups
This article draws on the Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) to tackle the question of how the dominance and decline of a specific policy programme in a policy sector can be explained. It starts from the observation that visionary policy programmes, defined as a set of policy goals and instruments that find their expression in subsequently adopted and interconnected policy reforms, may shape a sector’s policies over several decades. Linking poli…
Theoretical foundations of the Programmatic Action Framework (PAF)
This article introduces the Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) as a supplementary perspective in policy process research. It focuses on professional biographies of programmatic actors, policy programs, and programmatic identities as driving factors for policies. Programmatic actors are individuals in direct interaction with the state apparatus. Civil servants, politicians, and similar individuals under certain predictable circumstances form stab…
Mutual and Self Perceptions of Opposing Advocacy Coalitions
In political conflicts, actors tend to assume that opponents behave maliciously. This phenomena is part of the "devil shift," which was introduced in advocacy coalition framework research. We present a multivariate analysis of the perceptions of motives and actions of opposing coalitions in a political conflict and thereby analyze a major dimension of the "devil shift" and of its antonym "angel shift." The conflict concerning the German infrastru…
Relational coupling of multiple streams
After a series of COVID‐19 outbreaks among employees in the German meat‐processing industry, the Work Safety Control Act protecting these workers made it on the government's agenda in July 2020. From a Multiple Streams perspective, local corona hotspots may be understood as policy windows for introducing respective measures. However, this alone is not sufficient to explain agenda setting. This study investigates the coupling of streams within pol…
Government Learning in German and British European Policies
Why do some governments change their policies toward European integration while other national positions endure? Governments may change their policies even while the governmental parties remain the same. This article focuses on the explanatory capacities of policy learning, and thereby develops some contra‐intuitive theses concerning the impact of political systems. Under some circumstances even the existence of many veto‐players with opposite be…
Health Policy Prior to the German Federal Election of 2013
The discussion on how to finance the Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) repeatedly appeared prominently in the political discussions of previous election campaigns for the German Bundestag. However, in 2013 this topic remained only marginal. The recent marginalisation of health policy is closely linked to the political processes and results inherent to a health ministry having the FDP at its helm from 2009 to 2013. The effects of several fundamenta…
The programmatic elite in German health policy
Do biographies of policy elites make a difference for the policy process and output? Leading theories of the policy process focus on other explanations that mostly have been derived from peculiarities of American politics. This article transfers a French approach to the study of policy processes in German health policy. It emphasizes how this French perspective presents an added value in the form of the programmatic action framework. At its core,…
Winter is Coming – But Not Yet. German Health Policy Under the Third Merkel Chancellorship
Health policy in Germany for a long time was considered to be hardly reformable. During the last 25 years, reforms became more frequent, yet substantial major policy change is still rare. When taking a closer look, German health policy follows phases of stability alternating with punctuations of this equilibrium when fundamental structural reforms occur. This contribution analyses the German health policy of the 18th legislative period against th…
Latent target groups—A methodological contribution of social identities to policy design research
Research on policy design underscores the importance of accurately identifying target groups to effectively design policy measures that change individual behavior, address societal problems, and achieve policy objectives. However, empirical research on the composition and characteristics of target groups is rare and primarily draws on a commonly used typology to highlight the social construction of target groups. Tying in with and adding to this …
The Winds of Winter
In the second half of the 19th legislative period, COVID-19 brought the issue of health policy firmly into the public limelight. Given that it amplified already existing challenges, this crisis can be conceptualised as a case of positive feedback in the understanding of punctuated equilibrium theory (PET). One would have expected this crisis to provide a push for reforms in the areas of digitalisation, hospital and care policy, as these represent…
Triggers and Hierarchies of Social Identities in the European Parliament
Research on dynamics within the European Parliament frequently draws on group‐based explanations – such as parties and national affiliations – for the behaviour of its members. Hence, there is a growing interest in the question of how policy issues trigger the salience of group memberships and whether partisan or national group memberships – and which of them – rank higher when voting on issues. This article provides answers to these questions by…
Short-Term Health Policy Responses to Crisis and Uncertainty
The onset of the economic crisis more than a decade ago posed extreme challenges to health care systems that may now be repeated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The resulting policies produced a wide range of (in some cases, even opposite) outcomes: increased or decreased public expenditures for health care. Curiously, however, countries that were considered particularly hard hit by the economic crisis showed different extremes of policy outcomes. In…
Informal social groups and policy programs
Come Together, Right Now
How do social identities contribute to the formation of coalitions in a policy subsystem? Social identities help to understand the bundling of resources and common strategies for action. Thus, we argue that identification with a group and across groups discursively results in the formulation of shared and competing storylines. As coalitions are characterized by some kind of sameness of their actors which results in shared storylines, we thereby p…
Issue Networks in German Health Insurance Policy
What determines effectiveness in the policy process
Public policies should ideally be formulated to address a societal problem and being effective in solving it, both in what regards the effectiveness of the process of their development and in their effect on the target population (Bali et al., 2019; Huber et al., 2020; Knill et al., 2020). Thereby, effectiveness can concern different aspects: It can be related to the coordination or collaboration between policy actors, it can refer to the effecti…
From local networks to national reform? Programmatic groups in the regionalization of German health policy
Before policy reform initiatives reach the agenda of national decision makers, such initiatives often start at a small‐scale, local level. The Programmatic Action Framework (PAF) emphasizes the importance of biographical connections to understand how a group of policy actors forms, and how it develops programs that may lead to decade‐long policy change. This article applies the PAF to study the emergence of a programmatic group behind initiatives…
Gesundheitspolitik
Lerntheoretische Ansätze in der Policy-Forschung
Mit dem Sonderheft der Politischen Vierteljahresschrift Nr. 24 (Héritier 1993) wurden lerntheoretische Ansätze zu einem zentralen Element der deutschen Policy-Forschung. Die diesem Sonderheft zugrunde liegende Vorstellung einer ideenbezogenen „Neuorientierung“ der Policy-Analyse ist allerdings aus drei Gründen umstritten: Erstens stellen ideenbezogene Ansätze auch heute nur einen Teil der theoretischen Bezugspunkte der Politikfeldforschung dar. S…
Politische Systeme und kollektives Regierungslernen am Beispiel deutscher und britischer Europapolitik
Einzelinteressen und kollektives Handeln in modernen Demokratien
Einzelinteressen und kollektives Handeln in modernen Demokratien. Festschrift f ur Ulrich Widmaier
Einzelinteressen und Kollektives Handeln in Modernen Demokratien
Health Policy
Health policy was one of the central elements of the ‘Third Way’ reform agenda which the SPD–Green and Labour governments attempted to launch in 1999. At first glance, there were similar challenges for both centre-left governments. Both countries have traditionally organised their health systems with little choice for consumers, because the range of services covered by systems of collective financing is mostly fixed in both countries. Additionall…
Government Learning in German and British European Policies
Why do some governments change their policies toward European integration while other national positions endure? Governments may change their policies even while the governmental parties remain the same. This article focuses on the explanatory capacities of policy learning, and thereby develops some contra‐intuitive theses concerning the impact of political systems. Under some circumstances even the existence of many veto‐players with opposite be…
Gesundheit 2030
An der deutschen Gesundheitspolitik ist eine kaum übersehbare Zahl von Akteuren beteiligt. Alle Akteure begründen ihre teilweise gegensätzlichen Forderungen unter anderem mit dem Ziel der Qualitätssteigerung. Der Band bietet erstmals einen zusammenhängenden Überblick der jeweiligen Vorstellungen für ein qualitativ hochwertiges Gesundheitswesen der Zukunft. Originalbeiträge der zentralen Akteure aus Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft bieten die …
Gesundheit 2030
Gesundheit 2030
Gesundheitspolitik
Gesundheitspolitik
Bilanz der Ära Kohl
Health Policy Prior to the German Federal Election of 2013
The discussion on how to finance the Statutory Health Insurance (SHI) repeatedly appeared prominently in the political discussions of previous election campaigns for the German Bundestag. However, in 2013 this topic remained only marginal. The recent marginalisation of health policy is closely linked to the political processes and results inherent to a health ministry having the FDP at its helm from 2009 to 2013. The effects of several fundamenta…
Devil Shift und Angel Shift in eskalierten politischen Konflikten am Beispiel von Stuttgart 21
Learning as a Necessary but Not Sufficient Condition for Major Health Policy Change
Following the financial crisis, Bismarckian health systems underwent some major reforms. This article analyzes under which conditions major reforms occurred. To do so, it theoretically combines conditions from the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) and the Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) to emphasize the added value of merging them to explain major policy change. By combining these two approaches, it is possible to present a more comprehensive p…
Cross‐Theoretical and Conceptual Advances to Enhance Knowledge in Policy Studies
Research on the policy process is growing and yet, there is still need for refinement and advances to enhance and complement the produced knowledge of and for the policy process. European Policy Analysis (EPA) was first published in 2015 with the explicit aim to present a European platform for scientific exchange on policy process theories. Policy process research is essentially concerned with the interplay of actors and institutions that links p…
European Social Policy
European social policy can be referred to on at least two dimensions: European in the sense of EU social policy and associated striving toward advancing EU-driven social policy (Copeland & Daly, 2018), and European with regard to separate—but possibly transferred and diffused—national strategies in social policy-making, partly coping with the multi-tiered structures of their respective welfare states (Bonoli, Natili & Trein, 2018). The recently p…
Social identities in the policy process
This paper introduces social identity theory and self-categorization theory to policy process research. Drawing from the prominent and widely acknowledged psychological social identity approach, it develops the theoretical concept of social identities in the policy process (SIPP) and advances the understanding of policy actors' behavior. Compared to psychological foundations of existing theories of the policy process, the social identity approach…
Mutual and Self Perceptions of Opposing Advocacy Coalitions
In political conflicts, actors tend to assume that opponents behave maliciously. This phenomena is part of the "devil shift," which was introduced in advocacy coalition framework research. We present a multivariate analysis of the perceptions of motives and actions of opposing coalitions in a political conflict and thereby analyze a major dimension of the "devil shift" and of its antonym "angel shift." The conflict concerning the German infrastru…
Selbstbeschränkte Gesundheitspolitik im Vorfeld neuer Punktuierungen
Policymaking in multiple European cases
The European Policy Analysis (EPA) journal is happy to announce its inclusion into the Scopus database. We have received our first CiteScore for 2018 of 1.23, ranking us in the top half of the Public Administration field. Special thanks go to all authors, reviewers, board members, and the support of both the PSO and Wiley in establishing this journal in the field of policy studies. We are working hard to further improve both quality and visibilit…
One discourse to rule them all? Narrating the agenda for labor market policies in France and Germany
Despite different institutional and situational conditions, the recent French labor market reforms bear a strong resemblance to the labor market reforms in Germany in the early 2000s. Governments at both points in time turned away from the conservative welfare state model and failed to appropriately legitimize their reforms toward the public as well as their originally partly social-democratic electorate. Given the diverging conditions which are …
Winter is Coming – But Not Yet. German Health Policy Under the Third Merkel Chancellorship
Health policy in Germany for a long time was considered to be hardly reformable. During the last 25 years, reforms became more frequent, yet substantial major policy change is still rare. When taking a closer look, German health policy follows phases of stability alternating with punctuations of this equilibrium when fundamental structural reforms occur. This contribution analyses the German health policy of the 18th legislative period against th…
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