How can a policy be impactful if, by design, the policy text is highly symbolic? Symbolic policies communicate salient values such as equity or rights with minimal implementation guidelines. Despite their ubiquity, these policies have been overlooked by scholarship that largely views symbolic policies as performative and meaningless. The authors challenge this prevailing notion by … Continue reading "When “Symbolic” Policy is Anything But: Policy Design and Feedbacks from California’s Human Right to Water Law"