This book analyzes in what way activation policies impact on given patterns of social
citizenship that predominate in national contexts. It argues that the liberal paradigm of …

Se analiza la emergencia de un nuevo paradigma que determina roles diferenciados y
contrapuestos a los esquemas clásicos vigentes en los gobiernos locales, particularmente …

In 2013 the governments of the Netherlands and Scotland established national police
forces, replacing a tradition of largely autonomous regional police organizations. In both …

The implementation of Natura 2000, Ecological Network of protected areas established in
the European territory under Council Directive 92/43/EEC, has encountered serious …

The implementation of the Birds and Habitats directives has been problematic in many
member states of the EU. In the Netherlands, many decision-making processes have ended …

Purpose This study aims to understand why some social and environmental reporting (SER)
regulations are more successful than others in modifying collective corporate reporting …

ABSTRACT In the European Union, non-compliance with EU law and uneven protection of
rights may be caused by differentiated policy implementation, potentially creating a problem …

This article focuses on the implementation of the federal law on unemployment insurance
(LACI) by the Swiss cantons. Starting in the mid 90s, the second revision of the LACI …

Public policy is often implemented through formal laws. In contrast to the typically optimistic
ex-ante analyses of the impact of a set of laws, in retrospect it may be hard to determine …

This research turns e-government policy into practice in two ways, firstly to distil the lessons
from existing evidence and experience about e-government implementation of policies and …