https://policyandpoliticsblog.com/2026/09/16/2026-policy-politics-student-reading-list/Policy & Politics Journal Blogen2026-09-16T12:52:02+00:002026 Policy & Politics Student Reading List social care, governance, social policy, evidence, gender, poverty, Scotland, Ideas, politicians, knowledge production, comparative analysis, Germany, health policy, accountability, policy process, expertise, populism, policy design, participatory governance, Hungary, policy dismantling, evidence-based policy making, policy diffusion, experts, agenda setting, legitimacy, policy advice, policy reform, expert knowledge, institutional theory, democratic representation, civil society, COVID-19, problem definition, policy conflict, multilevel governance, process tracing, policy feedback, policy research, US Congress, serial shift, committee reports, autocratisation, policy knowledge, think tanks, polarisation, Canada, path dependency, policy window, policy termination, political discourse, childcare policies, local governments, lived experience, anti-poverty policy making, Nordic model, Nordic governance, advisory commissions, interpretive methodology, qualitative methods, Interpretivism, Causal Mechanism, Assisted Voluntary Return, Immigration Policy, Migration Governance, mechanisms as ideal types, analyticist approach, constitutive causality, foreign policy analysis, select committees