Social phenomena can rarely be attributed to single causes--instead, they typically stem
from a myriad of interwoven factors that are often difficult to untangle. Drawing on set theory …

The study of ideas and crisis in public policy and administration has generated two
literatures with shared interests, but often distinct approaches. In this Symposium …

Background: While current public policy scholarship can take advantage of a decades-long
accumulated knowledge base on the relationship between evidence and policy, it is hard to …

The effects of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic cuts across every facet of a
nation's life. The near collapse of economies with the attendant job losses has brought forth …

The concept of robustness has received increasing scholarly attention regarding public
policy and governance, where it has enhanced our understanding of how policies and …

Amidst multiple foreign policy flip-flops of the Turkish government, the Middle East is where
observers agree most about the explanatory priority of ideational factors over realpolitik …

The use of knowledge and evidence in policymaking is a recurrent topic of research due to
its scientific and policy relevance. The existing and expansive body of literature has been …

Policies aimed at upskilling, motivating and/or disciplining the unemployed have remained a
cornerstone of most OECD countries' employment policies since the 1990s. Central to these …

This paper investigates the development of a mission-oriented innovation policy approach at
a national level. The empirical case that forms the core of the paper is a policy process …

In the new millennium, Japan found a renewed interest in infrastructure investment and
engaged in this policy issue with diplomatic initiatives and external partnerships with due …