Policy assessment has spread rapidly around the world in the last few decades providing an
opportunity for further innovation and understanding in the way in which assessment is …

Over the last 20 years, policy appraisal has emerged as a popular topic for discussion
amongst policy-makers and academics alike. Much research effort has been devoted to …

Several years ago, Carol Weiss showed that very rarely does an individual policy appraisal
shape a public decision. However, she carried on, problem definitions, instruments, and …

Can the European regulatory state be managed? The European Union (EU) and its member
states have looked at better regulation as a possible answer to this difficult question. This …

An important proposition in public policy analysis is that the design and selection of policy
instruments is a manifestation of power relations; in other words,'politics determines …

Research on regulation has crossed paths with the literature on policy instruments, showing
that regulatory policy instruments contain cognitive and normative beliefs about policy. Thus …

What techniques or means do public policymakers use in their attempts to achieve policy
goals? The roles of what may be termed policy instruments, tools and methods (Howlett …

Regulatory impact assessment (RIA) has spread throughout the globe. It is a systematic and
mandatory appraisal of how proposed primary and/or secondary legislation will affect certain …

Sustainability Appraisal is a sourcebook of the state-of-the-art of this rapidly emerging and
diversifying area. It draws on a wealth of international experiences and approaches to …

Impact assessment is the pivotal instrument in the recent wave of regulatory reforms labeled
'better regulation'. Although the economics of impact assessment has been the subject of a …