The recent ideational turn in political science and public administration implies that ideas
matter. Ideas are an essential explanatory concept for understanding policy changes and …

Framing research seeks to understand the forces that shape human behaviour in the policy
process. It assumes that policy is a social construct and can be cast in a variety of ways to …

This is an open access book. This book offers the first overview of the 'wicked problems'
literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, with both the nature of the …

Debates about the role and nature of the state are at the heart of modern politics. However,
the state itself remains notoriously difficult to define, and the term is subject to a range of …

The refugee crisis of 2015 can be characterised as an exogenous shock, an immigration
shock, which according to institutional theory may create a window of opportunity for path …

While John Kingdon's Multiple Streams Approach (MSA) remains a key reference point in
the public policy literature, few have attempted to assess MSA holistically. To assess its …

This contribution delineates the sui generis paradigmatic portent of the social investment
perspective. After theoretically defining the notion of a policy paradigm in welfare state …

This article joins with others in this special issue to examine the evolution of our
understanding of how the coronavirus disease (COVID)-19 pandemic impacted policy ideas …

Changing Welfare States is is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has
swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform …

Contemporary public administration reflects its historical roots, as well as contemporary
ideas about how the public bureaucracy should be organized and function. This book …