This chapter reviews Punctuated Equilibrium Theory (PET), and discusses new empirical
studies in the United States and elsewhere. It deals with an assessment of the strengths and …

Instilling climate policy with stability has emerged as a central concern in both the academic
literature and societal discourse around climate change. Societal actors have called for …

Meeting the climate change targets in the Paris Agreement implies a substantial and rapid
acceleration of low-carbon transitions. Combining insights from political science, policy …

One of the most investigated research topics in the corporate sustainability literature is “the”
business case. Long lionized for linking the profit motive to corporate environmental …

Energy transitions face multiple barriers, lock-in, path dependencies and resistance to
change which require strategic policy efforts to be overcome. In this regard, it has been …

Most policy-relevant work on climate change in the social sciences either analyzes costs
and benefits of particular policy options against important but often narrow sets of objectives …

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 …

This paper critiques the state of the art approaches to studying transportation policy. It does
so through analysing 100 papers sampled from the two leading policy journals in the …

In public policy processes, collective learning among policy actors is important in sha**
how these processes unfold and the types of policy outcomes that may result. Despite a …

Thinking about policy mixes is at the forefront of current research work in the policy sciences
and raises many significant questions with respect to policy tools and instruments …