In 2016, the Commission proposed an ambitious governance strategy in order to further the
transformation of the European energy system towards the Unions' 2030 climate and energy …

Scientific evidence has become increasingly important for the decision-making processes in
contemporary democracies. On the one hand, research dealing with the utilization of …

This paper provides a critical assessment of the Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI)
and compares it with other prominent indices that address specific components of …

In the emerging debate on 'harder soft governance,'the relationship between hard and soft
elements has not been fully explored. This paper addresses this gap by looking at the …

Policy monitoring is often seen as a crucial ingredient of policy evaluation, but theoretically
informed empirical analyses of real-world policy monitoring practices are still rare. This …

Pensions at the European level have been, since the sovereign debt crisis, affected by
several decision-making innovations. Retirement policy has been embedded in the …

Polycentric climate governance holds enormous promise, but to unleash its full force, policy
evaluation needs a stronger role in it. This book develops Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom's …

The EU increasingly relies on forms of policy monitoring. While functioning policy monitoring
remains the 'critical underlying assumption'of many approaches such as (performance) …

As an activity aimed at assessing the quality and achievements of public action, policy
evaluation has become an integral part of the political game in many systems. The formal …

This chapter focuses on the role that performance audits by the European Court of Auditors
(ECA) play in the scrutiny work of the European Parliament (EP) and its Budgetary Control …