Highlights•Relational and instrumental rationality coexist in human decision-
making.•Instrumental views on decision-making are embedded in relational …

Background Many of society's health problems require research-based knowledge acted on
by healthcare practitioners together with implementation of political measures from …

Governance Networks in the Public Sector presents a comprehensive study of governance
networks and the management of complexities in network settings. Public, private and non …

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 …

Whereas the concept of platform government emerged a decade ago and virtual states are
predicted beginning early 2000s, supporting technologies and infrastructures are now being …

This paper critiques the state of the art approaches to studying transportation policy. It does
so through analysing 100 papers sampled from the two leading policy journals in the …

É objetivo deste artigo apresentar e discutir quatro modelos teóricos que contribuem para a
compreensão das políticas públicas:(1) o modelo sequencial ou do ciclo político,(2) o …

Education policy in England is constantly evolving and becoming increasingly incoherent
and it is therefore becoming harder to keep up with, and make sense of, all the changes …

Every decision that is made by managers and policy-makers in a public sector organization
requires an evaluation and a judgement of the risks involved. This vital requirement has …

The only book to focus on implementing public policy, this state-of-the-art text offers a
comprehensive and lively account of the major insights found in implementation theory and …