Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand how Americans view scientists and their role in making public policy. For this analysis, we surveyed 9,593 U.S. adults from Oct. 21 to 27, 2024.

Three spheres of policy that until recently were thought of as more separate have been merging in ways that are reshaping the future of the energy transition in the United States and beyond. National ...

Behavioural Public Policy is an interdisciplinary field of public policy that integrates insights from behavioural science into the design and implementation of public policies. Instead of relying ...

Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, Vol. 11, No. 4 (2024), pp. 77-96 (20 pages) This study explores how cultural dynamics shape public policy in Indonesia, focusing on the influence of cultural ...

Few events better characterized 2023’s tsunami of pronouncements about regulating artificial intelligence (AI) than Pope Francis’s plea for the world. 2023 saw thousands of AI policy pronouncements, ...

Section 1. Purpose. Article II of the United States Constitution vests the President with the sole and exclusive authority over the executive branch, including the authority to manage the Federal ...

Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the official opinions of SCOTUSblog or its staff. Lawyers have long played an outsized role in American policymaking. Almost ...

President Donald Trump said Aug. 25 that he fired Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, an unprecedented action that removes her from the nation’s policy-making central bank – and gives Trump the ...

This decision did not emerge from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), which typically guides the CDC’s vaccine decisions. It did not follow the standard process of public ...

The CDC's shared decision-making approach for vaccinations is misunderstood, leading to public confusion and potential undermining of vaccine confidence. Surveys show many Americans incorrectly ...

A Big Three meeting was in the wind. When it would be held was up to Marshal Stalin. But last week both Winston Churchill and Harry Truman gave unmistakable evidence that they thought it should be ...