Understandings of different policy learning types have matured over recent decades.
However, relatively little is known about their nonlinear and interactive nature, particularly …

Policy learning plays an important role during crises, where it can empower effective crisis
responses or derail policy. Accordingly, a crisis like the COVID‐19 pandemic has created a …

The predominant ontological position on agency in policy learning literature has been
relatively learner-oriented, thus focusing on policy actors puzzling about policy problems. In …

Research often explores the role of scientific expertise in policymaking from an externalised
perspective, mostly focusing on how policymakers use and abuse scientific expertise …

Policy innovation is considered important for addressing major challenges such as climate
change and the sustainable energy transition. Although policy learning is likely to play a key …

Policy learning plays a significant role in shaping policy during crises. While scholarship has
explored many of the mechanisms and outcomes of such learning, little is known about how …

Policy learning plays a critical role in crisis policymaking. Adequate learning can lead to
effective crisis responses, while misdirected learning can derail policymaking and lead to …

ABSTRACT A growing body of public policy and governance scholars recognise the
importance of learning in supporting adaptive and responsive governance systems …

How can we empirically identify and measure policy learning? Through a problematized
review, we develop a novel perspective to identifying, explaining, and addressing …

Research on policy learning has shown that actors can learn in inadequate modes. To better
understand policy learning failures and possible remedies, we ask how and why inadequate …