The research on collaborative governance has focused on the upstream problems
concerning the recruitment of actors, facilitation of collaboration and the fostering of …

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The UN's
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set an ambitious agenda for global problem …

Governance researchers have repeatedly discussed how to make public governance more
accountable given the relatively 'thin'accountability of representative government. Recent …

This article explores the dynamic interaction of emergency policies and parliamentary
constitutional review in the early policy response to the COVID‐19 outbreak in Finland. A …

This interdisciplinary study examines the cross-cultural differences between the perceived
legitimacy of antipandemic measures during the peak of the COVID-19 crisis in three Central …

This book examines the link between constitutional asymmetry and multinationalism and the
effects asymmetry produces on legitimacy and stability in federal and quasi-federal systems …

The concepts of auditing and transparency frequently appear in discussions about
contemporary public‐sector challenges, but the relationship between them rarely has been …

Many global and national initiatives have evolved in recent year to finance plantation
forestry as a means to restore degraded landscapes. However, little information is available …

Regulating private actors' participation in policy‐making is key to democratic governance.
Across political systems, targeted transparency is used to regulate lobbying activities. We …

Transparency has become the constant refrain of democratic politics. However, executive
branch officials consistently seek to insulate their activities from public scrutiny. A recurrent …