The international climate regime represented by the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change has been widely critiqued. However,'new'dynamic forms of climate …

This article provides an overview of the emerging field of American political economy (APE).
Methodologically eclectic, this field seeks to understand the interaction of markets and …

Policy feedback is a widely used concept, but many who use it only focus on the positive
and/or unintentional feedback effects of certain types of policy. The literature as a whole is …

Comparative policy studies face a number of methodological challenges where
conceptualization of the object of comparison—policy output—is the most fundamental. On …

There is a large body of literature devoted to how “policies create politics” and how feedback
effects from existing policy legacies shape potential reforms in a particular area. Although …

Why do governments backtrack on major policy reforms? Reversals of pension privatization
provide insight into why governments abandon potentially path-departing policy changes …

The US Constitution did not establish a clear division of responsibilities between the
national government and state governments, so the distribution of policymaking authority is …

Research on American political institutions correctly emphasizes the ascendency of
presidential power over the last century. Nevertheless, C ongress possesses tools to …

Drawing on the existing welfare state literature, this article offers a comparative analytical
framework to account for the territorial dynamics of social policy in the United States and the …

Scholarship in American Political Development (APD) is centrally concerned with the
historical construction of the polity and the development of its peculiar features over time …