There is an increasing awareness that policies do not succeed or fail on their own merits.
Within complex messy systems, it is unclear how best to ensure effective policy design and …

Public policies are composed of complex arrangements of policy goals and policy means
matched through some decisionmaking process. Exactly how this process works and which …

In England, a new Education Inspection Framework (EIF) was launched in 2019. The Office
for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (OfSTED) describes it as …

Background Emergency care is facing a steadily rising demand. In response, hospitals have
implemented new models of care that locate general practitioners in or alongside the …

The purpose of this paper is to improve knowledge of the transnational diffusion of public
policies. It argues that existing studies on the subject do not provide an adequate …

In the quest for Smart City (SC) development, numerous examples of 'good practices' have
circulated in national and international policy arenas. Learning from good practices …

Background China launched the primary health care (PHC) system oriented National
Essential Public Health Service Package (NEPHSP) in 2009, to combat health challenges …

Following the paradigm shift to recovery in the Anglophone world, recovery is also gaining
momentum in drug policy and practice in Flanders (Belgium) and the Netherlands. Since the …

Scholars have found it difficult to identify the impact of austerity on policy outputs. This
difficulty may have arisen because studies tend to focus on the content of national and EU …

要实现国家社会发展目标, 将治理优势转化为治理效能, 关键在于制度执行力. 但是,
几乎所有的社会发展政策都是复杂政策, 复杂政策在地方如何执行? 为了回答这个问题 …