Seeking to amend historical institutionalism, this article draws on the political science
literature on ideas and the sociological literature on framing to discuss three ways in which …

Norms are one of the most widely studied topics of contemporary International Relations
scholarship. Norms scholars have created an extensive theoretical and empirical literature …

Why do politicians and civil servants commission research and what use do they make of it
in policymaking? The received wisdom is that research contributes to improving government …

Climate change poses a significant risk for communities, and local governments around the
world have begun responding by developing climate adaptation policies. Scholarship on …

With almost a quarter of the world's migrants, Europe has been attempting to regulate
migration and harmonize immigration policy at the European level. The central dilemma …

How much variation is there in immigrant incorporation policies and practices across the
Western democracies? Concluding that the effort to capture variation in typologies of …

In the years since P eter H all's seminal 1993 article “P olicy P aradigms, S ocial L earning
and the S tate” appeared, the ideational research agenda has expanded enormously, to the …

While debates on migration policy often revolve around rival values and interests, they also
invoke knowledge claims about the causes, dynamics and impacts of migration. Such claims …

In Europe, gambling policy is conditioned by different administrative levels, including
national authorities and the EU, as well as institutions of the European Economic Area …

Debates on immigrant integration are often caught up in what academics and politicians like
to call'national models of integration'. Researchers and policymakers long for common …