The second edition of this highly regarded book provides a concise and accessible
introduction to the principles and elements of policy design in contemporary governance. It …

Institutional theory plays a significant role in contemporary political science. As in the
previous editions, the new fourth edition provides an overview of the major institutional …

A comprehensive, methodological, and theoretical survey of comparative politics
Comparative Politics provides a comprehensive, theoretical, and methodological …

Theorizing Feminist Policy avoids the usual clash between feminist analysis and non-
feminist social science in mapping out the new field of feminist comparative policy. Instead, it …

Violence against women is one of the most insidious social ills facing the world today. Yet
governmental response is inconsistent, ranging from dismissal to aggressive …

This article explores how Canadian federalism, with its complex mix of competencies, and
the country's punctuated gradualism policy style interface with urgent, complex decision …

The idea that policy development can be thought of as a series of steps in a decision-making
process was first broached systematically in the work of Harold Lasswell, a pioneer in the …

Written by a prominent figure in the field, this book provides an accessible introduction to
comparative methodology. Drawing on a wide range of approaches throughout, it is …

9.1 A framework for institutional analysis 118 10.1 Flow diagram of the advocacy coalition
framework 128 11.1 Incremental and punctuated policy change distributions 148 14.1 …

The policy analysis movement revolves around the idea that a generic analytic toolkit can be
productively applied to substantive policy problems, but different patterns of policy analysis …