Public Administration Annual Conference 2021 journal highlights and free articles
We are excited to share our journals highlights with you at the PAC conference, including details of our new fully open access Global Social Challenges Journal.
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Global Social Challenges Journal
How can we re-imagine society in an era of pressing global societal challenges? The new Global Social Challenges Journal, fully open access and not for profit, aims to facilitate thinking about these positive new trajectories and become the journal of choice to address the complexities of global social challenges across disciplines.
Want to know more? Read our call for submissions, and join the journal mailing list.
Policy & Politics
Policy & Politics is a world-leading journal committed to advancing our understanding of the dynamics of policy-making and implementation.
Virtual issue on Central-local relations (free until 15 September):
The limits of localism: a decade of disaster on homelessness in England [Open Access]
Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Hal Pawson and Beth Watts
Rescaling education policy: central‐local relations and the politics of scale in England and Sweden
Ingela K. Naumann and Colin Crouch
Mega-events and regional identities: the 2010 Asian Games language controversy [Open Access]
Zhonghua Gu, Bart Wissink and Yuan Hu
Highlights Collection (free until 31 October):
Promoting social goals through economisation? Social investment and the counterintuitive case of homelessness
Francesco Laruffa
From policy entrepreneurs to policy entrepreneurship: actors and actions in public policy innovation
Giliberto Capano and Maria Tullia Galanti
The politics of intersectional practice: competing concepts of intersectionality
Ashlee Christoffersen
Recent special issues
Strategic management of the transition to public sector co-creation
Beyond nudge: advancing the state-of-the-art of behavioural public policy and administration
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Evidence & Policy
Evidence & Policy is the first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to comprehensive and critical assessment of the relationship between research evidence and the concerns of policy makers and practitioners, as well as researchers.
Open Access Special issues
Opening up evidence-based policy: exploring citizen and service user expertise
The new evidence-based policy: public participation between ‘hard evidence’ and democracy in practice
Helen Pallett
Opportunities for youth participatory action research to inform school district decisions
Alison K Cohen et al.
Evidence-based policy, knowledge from experience and validity
Jennifer Smith-Merry
Go to full issue
Co-creative approaches to knowledge production and implementation
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Voluntary Sector Review
Voluntary Sector Review publishes accessible, high-quality peer-reviewed papers on all aspects of the voluntary, community, civil society and third sectors.
Journal Highlights
Special Issue: Place leadership and the role of the third sector and civil society
Place leadership revisited: partnerships in environmental regeneration in North West England, 1980‐2010: a practitioner perspective [Open Access]
Phil Barton, John Handley, Peter Wilmers, Richard Sharland and Walter Menzies
Essential, complex and multi-form: the local leadership of civil society from an Anglo-Italian perspective [Open Access]
Michela Pagani, Alessandro Sancino and Leslie Budd
Migrant integration services and coping with the digital divide: challenges and opportunities of the COVID-19 pandemic [Open Access]
Caitlin McMullin
Themed section: Re-reading civil society action for environmental sustainability.
The community economies of Esch-sur-Alzette: rereading the economy of Luxembourg [Open Access]
Gerald Taylor Aiken, Christian Schulz and Benedikt Schmid
Assembling community energy democracies [Open Access]
Bregje van Veelen and Will Eadson,
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Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
The Journal of Poverty and Social Justice provides an internationally unique forum for leading research on the themes of poverty and social justice.
Highlights
Thatcher’s ‘Right to Buy’ reform at 40: a policy feedback analysis of UK social housing policies
Sanya Naqvi, Daniel Béland and Alex Waddan
The Early Warning System: how frontline evidence helps us understand the UK’s social security response to COVID-19 [Free]
Katie Pybus et al.
Poverty2solutions: reflections from collaborative research rooted in the expertise of experience on poverty [Free]
Tracey Herrington, Ruth Patrick and Sue Watson
Find out more about the journal and follow @JPSJ_Journal on Twitter.