Month: November 2025

Experts in governance: a comparative analysis of the Nordic countries

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by Johan Christensen, Stine Hesstvedt, Kira Pronin, Cathrine Holst, Peter Munk Christiansen and Anne Maria Holli

Photographs of four women and two men. From left to right: Johan Christensen, Stine Hesstvet, Kira Pronin, Catherine Holst, Peter Munk Christiansen and Anne Maria Holli

In a recent article published in Policy & Politics, Experts in governance: a comparative analysis of the Nordic countries, Johan Christensen, Stine Hesstvedt, Kira Pronin, Cathrine Holst, Peter Munk Christiansen and Anne Maria Holli examine how expert knowledge is channelled into policy making in the Nordic region. They focus on government-appointed advisory commissions as a key institutional pathway for incorporating expertise and explore how the role of academic experts on these commissions has changed over time.

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Lived experience as evidence in anti-poverty policy making: a governance-driven perspective

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by Clementine Hill O’Connor and Hayley Bennett

In a recent article published in Policy & Politics, Clementine Hill O’Connor and Hayley Bennett examine how “lived experience” has become increasingly important in anti-poverty policy making, and ask what it means to treat such experiences as a form of evidence. They argue that, while lived experience is often presented as a movement-led, democratic challenge to established forms of expertise, it is also shaped by governance-led processes that channel participation into institutional priorities.

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Highlights from our most popular Policy & Politics articles of 2025 exploring narratives, design, and democracy in policymaking

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by Sarah Brown and Allegra Fullerton

Two women, the authors of this blog.

In celebration of the broad aims of Policy & Politics, we decided to focus this quarter’s highlights collection on our three most popular reads of 2025 to date. Spanning narratives, policy design, and direct democracy, these articles beautifully illustrate the journal’s breadth of scope — unusual among top-ranked outlets in the field.

So, without further ado, here’s a précis of each to whet your appetite for the full research articles, which are free to view until the end of January 2026.

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