Local governments in China actively promote low carbon city pilots to respond to the
challenges of climate change mentioned in the Sustainable Development Goals, including …

There is consensus in global health on the need for multisectoral action (MSA) to address
many contemporary development challenges, but there is limited action. Examples of issues …

Relatively few studies have explored the ways in which 'middle tier'institutional
arrangements in education, such as school districts and local authorities, are responding to …

A crucial challenge for the coordination of horizontal policy programs—those designed to
tackle crosscutting issues—is how to motivate government organizations to contribute to …

Complexity theory (CT) refers to a collection of concepts and heuristics that can be used to
study the developments emerging from interactions between phenomena, actors, and …

There are many normative answers on the question how to realize climate adaptation,
ranging from pleas for the government to play a decisive role, to calls for refraining from …

Abstract Wu, Howlett, and Ramesh's understanding of policy capacity has been used to
identify generalizable strengths and weaknesses of specific jurisdictions and policy sectors …

In this article, we identify the unfolding unintended consequences which flow from one
instance of policy layering in Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). We …

Results: We found that the strength of formal and informal organisational relationships at the
local level were critical conditions for implementation success, and that while fidelity to the …

Public health and social services are often hard to specify, complex to deliver and
challenging to measure. This research uses a complexity theory-informed lens to explore the …