Policies are made and pursue their goals through policy instruments. Furthermore, policy
instruments have become a relevant topic in many policy fields due to their theoretical and …

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 …

The world is in the grip of a crisis that stands unprecedented in living memory. The COVID-
19 pandemic is urgent, global in scale, and massive in impacts. Following Harold D …

Societal transformations are necessary to address critical global challenges, such as
mitigation of anthropogenic climate change and reaching UN sustainable development …

Since the mid-1990s, discourse analysis has become an increasingly established
framework in environmental policy analysis. The field has diversified in terms of conceptual …

Abstract The Paris Agreement of 2015 marks a formal shift in global climate change
governance from an international legal regime that distributes state commitments to solve a …

Abstract The Narrative Policy Framework has a growing number of researchers seeking to
apply the framework in policy process scholarship. This article is intended to assist those …

As energy models become more and more powerful, they are increasingly used to support
energy policymaking. Although modelling has been used for policy advice for many years …

The multiple streams approach (MSA) is one of policy scholarship's biggest successes.
Kingdon's (1984) study is one the highest cited books in policy studies, there is a thriving …

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 …