While national governments are the main actors in innovation policy, we witness a
proliferation of challenge-oriented innovation policies both at the subnational and the …

Social “wicked” problems (eg unemployment, poverty, crime, homelessness, pollution, and
low social cohesion) are a major source of fragmentation in public policy design and …

Chapter 1 reviewed succinctly the implicit views on governance in the vast literature
dedicated to socio-technical change, identified the research gaps associated with …

Globalisation broadly refers to the spread and interconnection of production, communication
and technologies across the globe. Media and communications have been drivers in the …

Maintaining mostly a national and EU‐level focus, the transnational dimension has been
overlooked in the policy instrumentation literature. Seeking to fill this gap, this article …

Under which conditions does the open method of co-ordination match the standards for
demoi-cracy? To answer this question, we need some explicit standards about demoi-cracy …

The article focuses on two flagship initiatives–the open method of co-ordination and online
consultations–in which the European Union aimed to improve democratic legitimacy through …

What role does collaborative governance play in transnational governance processes? With
few exceptions (Bohman, 2005; Slaughter, 2002; de la Porte and Natali, 2009) the bulk of …

While innovation policy started as national policy, we witness a proliferation both at the sub-
national and the supra-national level. This begs the question about subsidiarity: what …

This thesis contributes to our understanding of the role of European Union policy in national
level governance of the audiovisual media sectors in small states in South East Europe. It …