Considerable barriers can emerge in develo** and implementing climate change
adaptation strategies. Understanding the nature of barriers to adaptation is important so as …

The global discourse on climate change, emphasises the need for a rapid clean energy
transition. National net-zero commitments are highly contingent on fossil fuel phaseout. India …

The second edition of this highly regarded book provides a concise and accessible
introduction to the principles and elements of policy design in contemporary governance. It …

The discipline of public policy has struggled to come to terms with how we may conceive of
'policy failure'. It tends to assume either that failure is self-evident or that it can be assessed …

Policy protagonists are keen to claim that policy is successful while opponents are more
likely to frame policies as failures. The reality is that policy outcomes are often somewhere in …

This article argues that the literatures on policy transfer and policy diffusion are
complimentary, but need to focus more clearly on five key issues drawing insights from both …

The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process
by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship …

Recent studies by Hood have underscored the significance of the desire of decision-makers
to avoid blame for poor policy initiatives, highlighting the importance to policy-making of …

An increasing number of studies have compared climate change adaptation policies within
and between different countries. In this paper we show that these comparative studies suffer …

Success and failure are key to any consideration of public policy but there have been
remarkably few attempts to assess systematically the various dimensions and complex …