Coordinating and integrating different policies and public sector organizations is a major
challenge for practitioners and a continuing topic of interest for researchers. This Viewpoint …

Environmental knowledge is a crucial input for public and private decision-making, yet often
useful environmental knowledge appears to be unusable for decision-makers. To better …

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 …

Democratic governments maintain their legitimacy by answering demands to solve societal
problems, thus continuously adopting and implementing new policies, programs, and …

Researchers in public policy and public administration agree that policy integration is a
process. Nevertheless, scholars have given limited attention to political aspects that facilitate …

While both the economics and political science literature have gained considerable
knowledge on why some environmental policies work better than others, we still lack a clear …

International public administrations (IPAs) have become an essential feature of global
governance, contributing to what some have described as the'bureaucratization of world …

The coronavirus disease pandemic has exposed differences in the capacity of governments
around the world to integrate and coordinate different policy instruments into a coherent …

Complexity is inherent to the policy processes and to more and more domains such as
environment or social policy. Complexity produces unexpected and counterintuitive effects …

Comparative research on climate change adaptation policy struggles with robust
conceptualization and measurement of adaptation policy. Using a policy mixes approach to …