Deserai A. Crow

TL;DR: This commentary draws on the lessons of the policy sciences literature to understand the dynamics related to COVID-19, exploring the ways in which scientific and technical expertise, emotions, and narratives influence policy decisions and shape relationships among citizens, organizations, and governments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the beliefs and framing strategies of interest groups during a period of policy change and the factors explaining policy change, and develop propositions to explore questions concerning policy change primarily from the advocacy coalition framework as well as from other theorie.

TL;DR: The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) as discussed by the authors is a framework through which scholars can bring analysis of narratives into studies of policy making, and it embeds the discussion of frames and narratives in the NPF to provide an empirical and theoretical cohesion to our understanding of media and public policy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a policy and politics review of the year 2018, which is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits adaptation, alteration, reproduction and distribution without further permission provided the original work is attributed.

TL;DR: The authors argue that science communicators would do well to recognize themselves as storytellers to help people to connect with problems and issues on a more human level in terms of what matters to them.