Complex societal or environmental problems require fast and substantial socio-technical
transitions. For instance, in the case of climate change, these transitions need to take place …

Drawing on a cost–benefit approach, policy dismantling literature typically examines case
studies following omitted and blame‐avoidance strategies, which contrasts with the highly …

From carbon pricing to green industrial policy, economic ideas have shaped climate policy.
Drawing on a new dataset of policy reports, we show how economic ideas influenced …

ABSTRACT The European Union (EU) has been buffeted by a range of crises since 2007,
not least the economic and financial crisis. One potential victim of this economic malaise is …

Following the landmark Paris agreement, policy makers are under pressure to adopt policies
that rapidly deliver deep, society-wide decarbonisation. Deep decarbonisation requires …

This contribution conceptualises bottom-up politicisation in Europe's multi-level system. EU-
level actors, we argue, respond strategically to the functional and political pressures …

This article analyzes how Member States have used the opportunities and avoided the
constraints of the EU's multilevel governance architecture to return unwanted migrants …

This second and fully revised edition brings together some of the most influential work on the
theory and practice of contemporary EU environmental policy. Comprising five …

This article explores a backlash against the net zero greenhouse gas emissions target within
the UK. It introduces the term “anti-net zero populism” to analyse ideological and …

This article is a first attempt to systematically examine policy design and its influence on
policy effectiveness in a comparative perspective. We begin by providing a novel concept …