Note from the Editor

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Welcome to the October 2021 issue of Politics & Policy (P&P)! While there has been a steady growth in article submissions to P&P since I began my tenure as Editor in 2005, the last three years have seen a fairly large increase in submissions to the journal. However, for the last 18 months, the size of that increase has been unprecedented-in part, I surmise, due to so many months of lockdown-induced (and possibly rather manic!) productivity that a great deal of academics worldwide have experienced during the global pandemic.For the journal, the submission increase has had some major implications. Two are worth underlining here. First, even though desk rejections have naturally increased in proportion to the rise in submissions, we are calling far more on our 4,000-strong list of international academic reviewers to upload their suggestions and recommendations for so many review-worthy manuscripts. I, the Editorial Office, and the Editorial Board members extend our warmest thanks to all P&P's distinguished reviewers for their continued stalwart support of the journal-particularly during a time when so many scholars have added online teaching and a host of other extraordinary chores to their normal duties. As I am certain all the journal's authors will agree, during the pandemic, the vast majority of reviews P&P has received have been exceptionally detailed, rigorous, constructive, and very useful. A list of all those reviewers who returned reports for articles processed and/or published in Volume 49 (the mid-2020 to mid-2021 production period) will, as always, be published in the December issue of P&P this year with our sincere gratitude.Second, since the quality of most submissions has been high, more manuscripts have proceeded through successful review and resubmission/ revisions. This has meant that P&P is proud to be able to publish more articles per general interest issue this year than in the past. I hope that this fuller version of each issue of the journal will continue to future volumes as the world begins to return a little closer to normal than in 2020-21.Our first two articles this October each apply Kingdon's Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) to a different policy area in a different country. Both add superbly, in divergent ways, to P&P's previous articles focusing on the MSFdating back to Sinclair's ( 2006) "Previewing the Policy Sciences: Multiple Lenses and Segmented Visions" (see e.g.