The study of policy entrepreneurs as agents of change has developed greatly in recent
years, supported by increasingly more sophisticated theoretical and empirical research. In …

This article synthesizes the extensive literature on the diffusion and adoption of public sector
innovations. Although various subfields within public administration have studied diffusion …

We analyze the adoption of nonpharmaceutical interventions in the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries during the early phase of the …

Theories of the Policy Process provides a forum for the experts in policy process research to
present the basic propositions, empirical evidence, latest updates, and the promising future …

The quality of public decision making depends significantly on the quality of analysis and
advice provided through public organizations. Champions of “evidence‐informed” policy …

All politics and policy issues involve the accumulation of data about problems and solutions
in context of social interactions. Drawing on these data, policy actors acquire, translate, and …

The spread of Covid-19 and the variety of government responses opens space for policy
learning. Traditional policy analysis tools would lead us to explain policy variation using …

The framing question for this chapter is: How have both the new participatory turn and
individualisation changed, and how do organisations and movements mobilise participants …

This article re-assesses the literature on policy transfer and diffusion in light of what
constitutes failure or limited success. First, it looks at imperfect, incomplete or uninformed …

By considering spatial relationships, this study aims to analyse to what extent per capita CO
2 emissions are determined by renewable energy consumption, the share of the services …