Policy learning is an attractive proposition, but who learns and for what purposes? Can we
learn the wrong lesson? And why do so many attempts to learn what works often fail? In this …

Food banks have become emblematic of modern society in the United Kingdom. The
symbolism ranges from seeing indicators of caring community concern, through free food for …

While nominally protected across Europe, the human rights of vulnerable migrants often fail
to deliver their promised benefits in practice. This socio-legal study explores both the …

Ideally, interest groups form a link between citizens and politics. However, this link is often
flawed in practice. Many citizens also feel that the average citizen is not heard and that …

1 On the same weekend in December 2021, two simultaneous events spoke radically
differently on the conundrum of our age. Both were engineered by 'the West', one by Biden's …

When something bad happens these days–be it a terrorist attack, the break of a pandemic or
a natural disaster–the relevant, yet new, question is: who has the data? Today, having data …

Fundamentally though, why would a government adopt an administrative procedure that
imposes a set of tests, analyses, and the statutory right of stakeholders to be able to …

The Catholic Church is the most ancient institution in the world and, ever since the time of
Emperor Constantine, it has been engaged with politics in order to affirm its values and …

Collective action refers to group action whenever two or more individuals are involved. A
basic hypothesis is that “… the incentive system may be regarded as the principal variable …

As the European Union undergoes a major, self-proclaimed democratic exercise the
Conference on the Future of Europe and approaches Treaty change, this volume offers a …