This chapter reviews the dominant theories of government innovation in the public policy
literature. It shows that these theories borrow heavily from others developed to explain …

This article undertakes a systematic comparative review of research on policy integration
and coordination. Specifically, it compares studies focusing on “policy integration” with those …

Theories of the Policy Process provides a forum for the experts in policy process research to
present the basic propositions, empirical evidence, latest updates, and the promising future …

Abstract The Paris Agreement of 2015 marks a formal shift in global climate change
governance from an international legal regime that distributes state commitments to solve a …

Over the past three decades, hundreds of government officials have gone from being
immune to any accountability for their human rights violations to being the subjects of highly …

The study of policy transfer initially focused on transfers and transmissions among
developed countries or from developed countries to the developing world. Today the …

The scholarship on policy diffusion in political science and public administration is
extensive. This article provides an introduction to that literature for scholars, students, and …

This book addresses the wave of innovation and reforms that has been called the nudge or
behavioural public policy agenda, which has emerged in many countries since the mid …

Theories of the Policy Process provides a forum for experts in the most established and
widely used theoretical frameworks in policy process research to present the basic …

This article discusses the recent literature on policy diffusion and puts forward a new
articulation of its political dimensions. Policy diffusion means that policies in one unit …