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 …

The past decade has witnessed the emergence of many technologies that have the potential
to fundamentally alter our economic, social, and indeed personal lives. The problems they …

We suggest attention to policy regimes provides a fruitful means for joining the contributions
of scholars who study policy processes with those who are concerned with governance …

Dichotomous sets of policy alternatives–like market vs state–and metaphors–like carrots vs
sticks–lend themselves to blunt thinking about instruments and their modalities …

This book focuses on regulatory reforms and the autonomization and agencification of public
sector organizations across Europe, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. The central …

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 …

This article contributes to a better understanding of contemporary policy analysis and
management by setting out the parameters for analyzing policy change induced by …

Past studies of the dynamics of US-Canada environmental policy and policy-making have
found little evidence of 'weak'convergence in this sector; that is, of Canadian policy moving …

New policy initiatives are increasingly embedded in novel governance strategies. These
new modes of governance differ from existing policy mixes in that they are specifically …

To analyse convergence and divergence in Natural Resource New Governance
Arrangements (NRNGAs) two regimes in the environmentally-related areas of forest and …