Studies of evidence-based policy have found that research often fails to influence policy-
making and identify a number of barriers to research utilization. Less is known about what …

Policies to integrate and coordinate across sectors have become important in recent years,
but we know little about the drivers of these reforms. This article evaluates three …

This study offers insights into the institutional arrangements established to coordinate
policies aiming at the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change. Drawing on the …

The reorganization of governments is crucial for parties to express their policy preferences
once they reach office. Yet these activities are not confined to the direct aftermath of general …

The structure and organisation of the machinery of government are key to the ambitions of
political coalitions. When portfolio allocation and agencification are a function of political …

Abstract The European Union has developed an ambitious tobacco policy regime. However,
this area shows striking differences in national implementation. Although existing research …

Agenda-setting theory has a long tradition within policy studies but took a major leap forward
with the work of Baumgartner and Jones and their formulation of punctuated equilibrium …

How does ministries' capacity to draft legislation affect the political output of modern
governments? This article combines a novel dataset describing the capacity of ministerial …

Identifying and explaining change in the structure of central state bureaucracies and the
determinants of survival of individual public organizations are two closely related areas of …

In this article, we examine the effects of political change on name changes of units within
central government ministries. We expect that changes regarding the policy position of a …