Policy entrepreneurs—individuals who champion a policy and engage in intense advocacy
to secure it—are most frequently characterized as political elites or individuals well …

Using a large sample of articles and books published between 2012 and 2015, this review
shows the recent trends in environmental politics and policy scholarship. Environmental …

Learning is a cognitive and social dynamic through which diverse types of actors involved in
policy processes acquire, translate and disseminate new information and knowledge about …

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 …

In the aftermath of major crises governments turn to public inquiries to learn lessons.
Inquiries often challenge established authority, frame heroes and villains in the public …

The links between policy learning and policy innovation seem self-evident. Yet these areas
of scholarship have developed independently of each other. The articles in this Special …

In this paper we seek to overcome the knowledge gap in street-level bureaucracy (SLB)
literature on labour market policies, focusing on a specific public employment service (PES) …

Abstract The Dynamic System Model can be practical decision-making tools that allow
testing various scenarios of policy formulation. This study focuses on describe policy …

This paper empirically uses a street‐level bureaucrat (SLB) lens to compare the impact of
personal and organisational support on the innovative behaviour of frontline healthcare …

Are bureaucrats' interactions with politicians, as well as with other government and non‐
government players in the policy arena, linked with the bureaucrats' policy entrepreneurship …