Contemporary public administration reflects its historical roots, as well as contemporary
ideas about how the public bureaucracy should be organized and function. This book …

Das vorliegende Buch bietet sowohl eine allgemeine Einführung in das politische System
der Schweiz als auch einen vertieften Überblick über den aktuellen Stand der …

The Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) brings together data on government activities in
over twenty countries, and provides a consistent categorizing system to understand when a …

The political and economic crisis of EU integration has made it increasingly apparent how
challenging it is to bring together different sovereign cultures, languages and regions into a …

The formulation of policies lies at the heart of any political system and is the crucial task
assigned to decision makers. Analysing problems, identifying possible solutions, bargaining …

Centripetal democracy is the idea that legitimate democratic institutions set in motion forms
of citizen practice and representative behaviour that serve as powerful drivers of political …

Fragmentation across scales in natural resource governance can impede coordinated action
and decrease innovation capacity. Bridging actors who connect others within governance …

In this conclusion, I attempt to provide a synthesis of the findings of this superb set of papers
and put them into a broader perspective. For this purpose, I also rely on some other more …

In polycentric governance systems, decisions that influence a given policy issue are often
made across a series of forums: venues where actors meet to resolve collective action …

Collaboration between actors in political decision-making processes is crucial from both an
actor and a process perspective. Previous studies have highlighted the role of preference …