This article explores how Canadian federalism, with its complex mix of competencies, and
the country's punctuated gradualism policy style interface with urgent, complex decision …

Studies of policy change have advanced to the point where the basic contours and factors
driving policy sequences are now reasonably well identified and understood with a great …

The study examines simultaneously the effects of age, generation and period in the Finnish
parliamentary elections of 1975–2003 based on pooled data from Finnish Voter Barometers …

To determine whether innovations in policy concerning climate-change mitigation are
symbolic or truly radical in the sense of 'tipping'existing policy portfolios towards a new …

Despite much research on age and attitudes, it remains unclear whether age reflects
accumulated life experience or conditions prevailing during an individual's formative years …

This book is about policy-making and change in the sphere of housing policy in Russia. The
change in this sphere over recent decades has been dramatic. The Soviet Union made a …

The search for alternatives to understanding time as “general linear reality” in models of
policy change has usually resulted in theorists championing a single alternative; narratives …

Since the 1990s, Sweden has embarked on a series of market reforms in public services,
aiming for greater efficiency and better service quality. Nevertheless, the political debates do …

The resurgence of separatist movements in Scotland and Catalonia illuminate the ebb and
flow of such movements over time. The catalysts of separatism in post-industrial …

This article addresses the development of local policy networks in the Netherlands in the
period 1996–2005. It is argued that there is a surprising stability in such networks seen from …