This collection presents an effort to draw on the COVID-19 global pandemic, as a rare
“naturally occurring experiment”, to advance the comparative public policy scholarship and …

Governments increasingly use policy experimentation programs to seek solutions for
complex problems. Because randomization and controllability are unrealistic for real‐world …

COP26 highlighted near-term emissions reductions in addition to longer-term net-zero. At
the same time, shifts in political landscapes around the world have furthered the salience of …

Cross-sector collaborations—partnerships between organizations from multiple sectors (eg,
the public and nonprofit and voluntary sectors)—are key to sustainability transitions yet …

Anticipating the future is a highly uncertain but essential task in policy-making made
complex by the existence of both linear and non-linear policy dynamics. One framework …

The problem raised by causality in comparative policy analysis is twofold. First, how can we
be sure there is actually a causal relationship between two variables, factors or events …

Policy experimentation has emerged globally as a novel governance approach to address
complex socio‐environmental problems. In the climate adaptation literature, policy …

Southeast Asia is an historically important bioregion in terms of environmental indicators
such as biodiversity, freshwater resources, and species richness and distribution. It is also a …

This chapter focuses on policy experiments, particularly pilots, as a policy tool to aid such
decision-making. Policy pilots are commonly deployed to test policies before their full-scale …

The thesis examines the governance of China's climate experimentation, focusing on the
participation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs). It is an important topic given …