The recent ideational turn in political science and public administration implies that ideas
matter. Ideas are an essential explanatory concept for understanding policy changes and …

Highlights•Policy integration is a continuous process of adjustment through reflexivity and
learning.•There are key processual and structural reasons why governments pursue …

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 COVID-19 pandemic created extraordinary challenges for governments to safeguard
the well-being of their people. To what extent has leaders' reliance on scientific advice …

European leaders have struggled to find common responses to the polycrisis the EU is
facing. This crisis of leadership makes it urgent that scholars provide a better understanding …

Member states use implementation to preserve core state powers, such as fiscal policy, vis-à-
vis the European Union (EU), by choosing whether to adopt stricter or looser rules than the …

This paper examines Philippine foreign policy under the Duterte government (2016–2022).
During this period, Philippine foreign policy is widely acknowledged to have undergone …

In this paper, we examine how and why the European Commission's ideas on fiscal policy
have changed over the course of the European Semester. Empirically, we rely on a semi …

This paper explores how a joint belief shift among policy actors in the Eurozone crisis led to
a deep institutional change in Eurozone governance: the banking union. Based on …

In the fallout of the 2008 crisis, macroprudential policy has been installed as the policy
remedy against future financial instability, a primary focus being developments in the real …