Despite increasing evidence about the value and importance of breastfeeding, less than half
of the world's infants and young children (aged 0–36 months) are breastfed as …

This Element provides a critical review of existing literature on the role of ideas and
institutions in the politics of public policy with the aim of contributing to the study of the …

The rise of populist governance throughout the world offers a novel opportunity to study the
way in which populist leaders and parties rule. This article conceptualises populist policy …

Owing to the tendency of discursive institutionalists to conflate the notion that 'ideas
matter'for policy-making with the 'power of ideas', little has been done to explicitly theorize …

Political scientists are increasingly exhorted to ensure their research has policy 'impact',
most notably via Research Excellence Framework (REF) impact case studies, and 'pathways …

In this article, the author argues that we need to conceptualize gender as a social structure,
and by doing so, we can better analyze the ways in which gender is embedded in the …

Though rarely described as such, vulnerability to climate change is fundamentally a matter
of political economy. This progress report provides a reading of contemporary research on …

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 …

This article maps out the field of study known as discursive institutionalism while exploring
the range of ways in which scholars in this field explain the dynamics of change (and …

Federations increasingly face complex policy challenges, from managing climate change to
mass migration. COVID-19 is a prime example of this emerging type of problem. This …