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PMR — pp. 1-38 2026-06-01 Original The impact of timebanking on volunteering behaviors Khaldoun AbouAssi, Rui Wang, Ge Xin Abstract Global declines in formal volunteering have prompted interest in alternative mechanisms like timebanking. This study investigates the impact of timebanking on future volunteering intentions using a between-subjects randomized survey experiment (n= 361) in Shanghai, China. Participants exposed to a timebanking vignette were nearly three times more likely to express high-frequency volunteering intentions than the control group. This positive effect was most pronounced among frequent volunteers with strong intrinsic satisfaction, but attenuated among self-interested respondents. These findings suggest that institutionalized, non-monetary incentives can increase willingness to participate without undermining intrinsic motivation.

CQ 266 pp. 400-417 2026-06-01 Original Promoting Meritocracy through Recognition: The Post-recognition Career Trajectories of China’s Model County Party Secretaries

PA — 2026-06-01 Original A Replication of “Emotional Responses to Bureaucratic Red Tape” Huaxing Liu, Cheng Huo, Ben Ma, Qing Huang, Z C Zhang

PAR — 2026-05-31 Original From Threat to Challenge: Addressing Resistance to Diversity Through Holistic Diversity Previews and Tools Ines Jurcevic, Felix Danbold, Miguel M. Unzueta

PAR — 2026-05-31 Original Framing Decolonization: Case Study of the Pan‐Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change

PMR — pp. 1-28 2026-05-31 Original A sense of responsibility: factors affecting individuals’ participation in coproduction delivery

PMR — pp. 1-27 2026-05-30 Original Leading in a time of turmoil: Political fragmentation, political conflict, and managerial turnover Dag Ingvar Jacobsen Abstract （原文未提供摘要） 中文 动荡时期的领导：政治碎片化、政治冲突与管理层更替 Dag Ingvar Jacobsen

PSJ — 2026-05-29 Original When Reforms Becomes Symbolic: Decabinetisation in Portugal and Beyond Arthur Meert, Patricia Silva Abstract ABSTRACT Decabinetisation—policies that reduce or restrict ministerial cabinets—presents a paradox in contemporary executive politics. Despite growing reliance on these structures for political coordination and policy steering, governments occasionally move to limit their reliance on these political staff structures, either by reducing staff numbers or by imposing stricter rules on appointments, recruitment, and remuneration. While several such reforms have been documented, we still lack a clear understanding of why governments would deliberately limit the resources and authority of the very actors that support their political and policy work. Using the 2012 Passos Coelho reform in Portugal as an in‐depth case study, this article demonstrates that decabinetisation often functions as a symbolic response to mounting political and societal demands for restraint. Although Prime Minister Passos Coelho initially aimed to implement an ambitious overhaul, internal governmental dynamics during the design and implementation stages enabled continuity actors to dilute the reform's most transformative elements. The findings highlight decabinetisation as a strategic response to a policy trap: governments must be seen to act but lack the capacity or incentive to alter institutional dependence on MCs. These dynamics extend beyond Portugal, helping to explain similar initiatives in other systems with cabinetised executives.

PSJ — 2026-05-29 Original Studying Advocacy Coalitions: Conceptual Choices and Methodological Approaches Alejandra Medina, José Sánchez, Allegra H. Fullerton, Christopher M. Weible

PSJ — 2026-05-29 Original Media Coverage Shifts and Policy Overreactions: Evidence on Government Serial Processing and Information Saturation Daniele Guariso, Omar A. Guerrero Abstract ABSTRACT We investigate the causal link between societal signals and policy changes through novel data and a unique empirical setting. Using a corpus with all the opinion columns published in 2017 in the nine major Mexican newspapers (the signals) and data on the universe of individual expenditure programs (the policies), we provide quantitative evidence about government overreactions (in terms of overspending) to differentiated media coverage across various policy topics. First, we test formal models of serial and parallel information processing that relate to the debate between punctuated equilibrium and incrementalism. We find empirical support for the serial processing hypothesis. Second, we frame a natural experiment exploiting two earthquakes that took place in September of the same year. By leveraging the disparity in coverage of opinion columns across both earthquakes, we employ a difference‐in‐differences design and find evidence of the causal relationship between coverage shifts and policy overreactions. Our study sheds new light on a central topic in the study of policy changes and agenda‐setting, and provides quantitative evidence difficult to obtain under conventional empirical frameworks.