European Union (EU) environmental policy can only work in practice when it is implemented
by and within the member states. Yet, despite its importance, we still lack a solid and …

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 …

Governance is a key concept in politics and public policy that is increasingly utilised in
tourism. Using the notion of “policy as theory”, a typology of governance suitable for tourism …

Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes
of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing …

Goggin and his colleagues (1990) identifi ed three generations of implementation research.
Implementation studies emerged in the 1970s within the United States, as a reaction to …

This comprehensive, up to date and theoretically informed text examines the full range of the
European Union's external relations including the Common Foreign and Security Policy. It …

Recently, political science has seen an intense debate about the phenomenon of
'governance'. The aim of this paper is to clarify the basic concepts that are at the heart of this …

There is a strong international dimension to spatial planning. European integration
strengthens interconnections, development and decision-making across national and …

Governance is a term in good currency, but there are still too few detailed empirical analyses
of the precise extent to which it has or has not eclipsed government. This article explores the …

Christoph Knill's book analyses the impact of European policies on national administrations.
Under which conditions can we expect domestic change, particularly the convergence of …