We’re excited to welcome Kristin Taylor as a new co-editor of P&P in January! In anticipation, we caught up with her to find out a bit about her motivation for joining our team…
SB: Hey Kristin, we’re thrilled to have you joining our illustrious team in 2025 and wanted to hear what made you want to take on a co-editor role for P&P, and what you hope to get out of it?
KT: I’m glad the feeling is mutual! I was quite humbled when the editorial team approached me about the role. I have always held P&P in high regard because of the incredibly collegial and constructive review process. Given all the thoughtful effort the co-editors have devoted to the quality of P&P, I am honored to join the team. With that being said, I haven’t thought so much about what I hope to get out of being a co-editor of P&P, but I have thought quite a bit about what I can contribute to the journal and the editorial team. One of the aspects of my career that I have relished as I’ve become more established is the opportunity to mentor the work of new, up and coming scholars of public policy. I’m excited about the chance to contribute to the journal by fostering the work of new voices in the literature.
SB: We know that balancing priorities such as research, teaching and administration is more pressurised for prolific researchers like you, so what do you anticipate the benefits of the role will be for you?
KT: The juggle of research, teaching, service and administration is certainly not for the faint of heart! I’m a big advocate of continuing to learn, even when it’s outside my comfort zone, because it helps me avoid becoming siloed in one singular school of thought. I anticipate that seeing what other scholars are working on from an editor’s a high-level perspective will be a new way for me to continue to learn about public policy.
SB: Finally, what do you hope you’ll bring to P&P and why do you think the team are so excited to have you join them?
KT: The editorial team is quite strong already with their expertise in advocacy coalitions, policy learning, collaborative governance, and social movements and activism. I hope to compliment that expertise by bringing my work studying focusing events, agenda setting and policy change to the editorial table. I feel very strongly that our understanding of how crises shape policy dynamics has been studied in a fairly narrow way. I’m interested in fostering research that expands what we know about the effects of crises—at different levels of government and with varying degrees of severity—on politics and public policy. I’d be remiss if I didn’t also mention what I affectionately refer to as my side hustle of scholarship–policy entrepreneurs. I’m very interested in seeing how the literature unpacks the influence of policy entrepreneurs on lawmakers and individual citizens alike. I think this kind of policy influence is important for understanding how we adapt to public problems like climate change in highly polarized times.
I’m so thrilled to be joining the editorial team and hope to contribute to P&P’s increasingly important role in the public policy and politics literature.
SB: Thanks so much Kristin and roll on 2025!
In the meantime, don’t forget to read our top 10 most highly cited articles published in 2024 free to access until 31 January 2025.
Top 10 most highly cited articles published in 2024 – free to access until 31 January 2025
1. Policy learning governance: a new perspective on agency across policy learning theories by Bishoy Zaki
2. Types of learning and varieties of innovation: how does policy learning enable policy innovation? by Nihit Goyal and Michael Howlett
3. Crisis management in English local government: the limits of resilience by Tania Arrieta and Jonathan S. Davies
4. Expert perspectives on the changing dynamics of policy advisory systems: the COVID-19 crisis and policy learning in Belgium and Australia by Marleen Easton, Jennifer Yarnold, Valerie Vervaenen, Jasper De Paepe, and Brian W. Head
5. Social identities, emotions and policy preferences by Johanna Hornung and Nils C. Bandelow
6. The democratising capacity of new municipalism: beyond direct democracy in public- common partnerships by Iolanda Bianchi
7. The politics of anger: emotional appraisal mechanisms and the French pension reform protests by Johanna Kuhlmann and Peter Starke
8. Emotions and anti-carceral advocacy in Canada: ‘All of the anger this creates in our bodies is also a tool to kill us’ by Jennifer M. Kilty and Michael Orsini
9. The challenges experts face during creeping crises: the curse of complacency by Ahmad Wesal Zaman, Olivier Rubin, and Reidar Staupe-Delgado
10. Identifying proactive and reactive policy entrepreneurs in collaborative networks in flood risk management by Per Becker, Jörgen Sparf, and Evangelia Petridou
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