Highlights•Relational and instrumental rationality coexist in human decision-
making.•Instrumental views on decision-making are embedded in relational …

Background Many of society's health problems require research-based knowledge acted on
by healthcare practitioners together with implementation of political measures from …

Governance Networks in the Public Sector presents a comprehensive study of governance
networks and the management of complexities in network settings. Public, private and non …

This paper critiques the state of the art approaches to studying transportation policy. It does
so through analysing 100 papers sampled from the two leading policy journals in the …

Education policy in England is constantly evolving and becoming increasingly incoherent
and it is therefore becoming harder to keep up with, and make sense of, all the changes …

The only book to focus on implementing public policy, this state-of-the-art text offers a
comprehensive and lively account of the major insights found in implementation theory and …

There is a growing scientific debate regarding the suitability of certain modes of governance
for promoting sustainable development (SD). However, thus far there is neither agreement …

The fully revised and updated new edition of this textbook continues to provide the most
accessible overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. It seeks to review …

É objetivo deste artigo apresentar e discutir quatro modelos teóricos que contribuem para a
compreensão das políticas públicas:(1) o modelo sequencial ou do ciclo político,(2) o …

The concept of 'street‐level bureaucracy'was coined by Michael Lipsky (1980) as the
common denominator for what would become a scholarly theme. Since then his stress on …