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 …

With the urgency of climate change, and billions spent globally on renewable energy (RE)
support policies, it is crucial to understand which policies are effective. Substantial scholarly …

Italy was the first large epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Western world. Since the
country has not had any serious experience with this kind of disease in recent decades, its …

Rittel and Webber boldly challenged the conventional assumption that 'scientific'approaches
to social policy and planning provide the most reliable guidance for practitioners and …

Energy democracy is an emergent social movement advancing renewable energy
transitions by resisting the fossil-fuel-dominant energy agenda while reclaiming and …

The concept of wicked problems has become a fad in contemporary policy analysis, with any
number of problems being labeled as “wicked”. However, if many of these problems are …

Complex societal or environmental problems require fast and substantial socio-technical
transitions. For instance, in the case of climate change, these transitions need to take place …

Responding to the need for innovation, governments have begun experimenting with
'design thinking'approaches to reframe policy issues and generate and test new policy …

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 …

We offer a fresh perspective on implementation problems by suggesting that collaborative
policy design and adaptive policy implementation will help public policy makers to improve …