An innovative and accessible textbook on multimethod and case-study research
Multimethod research has become indispensable to doing social science, and is essential to …

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

A key issue for interest groups and policymakers is the ways through which organized
interests voice their interests and influence public policy. This article combines two …

In recent decades, there has been a growing interest among public policy scholars to
explore the applicability of policy process frameworks across political systems. One popular …

Constant policy growth can overburden bureaucracies if implementation capacities are not
expanded in lockstep with policy production. This development may undermine policy …

Commissions appointed to examine and propose solutions to major policy problems play a
vital role in policy formulation in the Nordic countries. Whereas existing accounts emphasize …

Do informational and financial resources systematically secure interest group access and
influence on public policy, and is one of these two resources politically more valuable than …

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 …

This in-depth study of the decision-making processes of the early 2000s shows that the
Swiss consensus democracy has changed considerably. Power relations have transformed …

Both parties and interest groups matter to democracy. Historically, examples of close
relationships between the two abound. But perhaps the best known-because it was …