Policy Making

When do policy shifts occur? Our research examines this question at various levels of analysis and across a range of policy areas, with a particular focus on fiscal and social policy. We investigate how key factors – such as crises, political and economic competition, and evidence-based decision-making – shape the timing, direction and scale of policy shifts.

Publications

  • Parth, A., Möck, M., Vogeler, C., & Kuenzler, J. (2025). No more fashion victim? Spillovers across multiple streams: The case of fur farming bans during the COVID ‐19 pandemic. Policy Studies Journal, psj.70039. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.70039
  • Kuenzler, J., Vogeler, C., Parth, A.-M., & Gohl, T. (2024). Exploring the eternal struggle: The Narrative Policy Framework and status quo versus policy change. Policy Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11077-024-09537-6
  • Seelkopf, L., & Haffert, L. (2024). Breaking with Orthodoxy? German Fiscal Policy in the Shadow of Covid-19. German Politics, 33(2), 297–317. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2023.2195169
  • Parth, A.-M., & Weiß, J. (2023). Hört beim Geld die transnationale Freundschaft auf? Solidarität in der Finanz-, Migrations-und Coronakrise. In Deutschland und Europa im Umbruch: Einstellungen, Verhalten und Forschungsperspektiven im Kontext der Bundestagswahl 2017 und der Europawahl 2019. Springer VS.
  • Parth, A.-M., & Nyby, J. (2022). Welfare experiments as tools for evidence-based policy making? The political debate on Twitter about the basic income trial in Finland. Policy Studies, 43(4), 772–790. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2020.1772217
  • Haffert, L., & Seelkopf, L. (2022). Corona und das Ende der deutschen Fiskalorthodoxie? In R. Zohlnhöfer & F. Engler (Eds.), Das Ende der Merkel-Jahre (pp. 191–214). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-38002-1_8
  • Leibfried, S., Huber, E., Lange, M., Levy, J. D., Stephens, J. D., Genschel, P., & Seelkopf, L. (2015). The Competition State. In S. Leibfried, E. Huber, M. Lange, J. D. Levy, & J. D. Stephens (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Transformations of the State. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199691586.013.12