Research on policy integration has become an important part of public policy scholarship by
analyzing how policymakers create linkages between policy subsystems to deal with …

Background:'Health in All Policies'(HiAP) describes the pursuit of health equity. It has five
main elements: treat health as a human right; identify evidence of the 'social determinants' of …

This symposium demonstrates the potential for throughput legitimacy as a concept for
shedding empirical light on the strengths and weaknesses of multi‐level governance, as …

Agent-based simulation has become increasingly popular as a modeling approach in the
social sciences because it enables researchers to build models where individual entities …

In March 2020, COVID-19 prompted policy change in the UK at a speed and scale only seen
during wartime. Throughout, UK government ministers emphasised their reliance on science …

Methods to capture the complexity of using policy instruments would allow us to better
evaluate the reasons for their effectiveness. Drawing from complexity science, we produce a …

How can policy process research help to address policy and policymaking problems? This
special edition of the Journal of European Public Policy seeks to address that question by …

Much has been said theoretically about whether populism corrects the limitations of
democracies, or instead damages their foundations. Yet we still know very little about how …

UK government ministers state that their COVID-19 policy is “guided by the science.” In
practice they mean “our scientists,” and initial UK government policy was highly consistent …

There is a significant gap between researchers' production of evidence and its use by
policymakers. Several knowledge transfer strategies have emerged in the past years to …