title: Introducing the Policy Transaction Perspective
abstract: This special issue of European Policy Analysis introduces the policy transaction perspective. As developed at length in the special issue article by Ansell et al. (2025), the policy transaction perspective seeks to combine ideas drawn from social constructivism and the philosophy of pragmatism to produce a distinctive approach to understanding the policy process. Social constructivist perspectives focus on how ideas (Béland 2009), discourses (Durnova et al. 2016), stories (Stone 1989), and narra
journal: European Policy Analysis