Effectiveness has been understood at three levels of analysis in the scholarly study of policy
design. The first is at the systemic level indicating what entails effective formulation …

What lessons can we learn from 40 years of policy entrepreneurship scholarship on policy
entrepreneurs' strategies and defining characteristics? While scholars have offered …

The world is in the grip of a crisis that stands unprecedented in living memory. The COVID-
19 pandemic is urgent, global in scale, and massive in impacts. Following Harold D …

Crises and disasters feature high on political and public agendas around the world.
Practitioners wrestle with the challenge to provide protection while maintaining legitimacy …

A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second
edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining …

Despite the multiplicity of actors, crises, and fields of action, global public policy has known
one constant, that is, the ubiquity of indicators in the production of governing knowledge …

The field of policy studies has always been interested in analyzing and improving the sets of
policy tools adopted by governments to correct policy problems, and better understanding …

Public policies are composed of complex arrangements of policy goals and policy means
matched through some decision‐making process. Exactly how this process works and which …

Increased policy coherence and integrated implementation are necessary to address
pressing development problems that cut across different sectors. Meeting these demands …

Global policy making is taking shape in a wide range of public sector activities managed by
transnational policy communities. Public policy scholars have long recognised the impact of …