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 …

We test the proposition that the federal bureaucracy exhibits a “bias toward business” during
notice and comment rulemaking. We analyze over 30 bureaucratic rules and almost 1,700 …

Problem: Human and natural systems will probably have to adapt to climate change impacts,
but this cannot be planned for using the traditional approach based on predictions because …

Students of politics have identified a variety of actors who appear to influence the federal
bureaucracy's implementation of public policy, including Congress, the president, and …

How does the content of public allegations impact regulatory communication strategies?
Employing a multinomial logistic regression analysis and an original data set, this article …

Participation and administration have long had an uneasy coexistence. On one hand, public
participation in decisions that affect citizens is consistent with citizenship and democracy; on …

We argue that the treatment of trans‐subsystem change, and particularly the role of public
opinion in fostering such change, within the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) has been …

In the lobbying literature, the effects of competition—two or more interests lobbying on
opposing sides of a policy debate—have not been assessed with regard to government …

Independent agencies are exempted from the accountability mechanisms inherent in the
ministerial hierarchy. To compensate for this, politicians incorporate all kinds of information …

Regulation by independent agencies, rather than ministries, is believed to result in better
policy outcomes. Yet this belief requires one to accept a complex causal chain leading from …