Policy Sciences

1987 - 2026

Current editor(s): Michael Howlett

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Volume 43, issue 4, 2010

Adaptive governance as a reform strategy pp. 301-341

Ronald Brunner

The temporal dimension of knowledge and the limits of policy appraisal: biofuels policy in the UK pp. 343-363

Claire Dunlop

Communication and competition in environmental studies pp. 365-390

Matthew Auer

Buffalo tales: interest group policy stories in Greater Yellowstone pp. 391-409

Mark McBeth, Elizabeth Shanahan, Paul Hathaway, Linda Tigert and Lynette Sampson

Volume 43, issue 3, 2010

Social and institutional challenges in species and ecosystem conservation: an appraisal of the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission pp. 203-228

Richard Wallace and Kathryn Semmens

Investigating the influence of social costs and benefits of environmental policies through social capital theory pp. 229-244

Nikoleta Jones

From “smart regulation” to “regulatory arrangements” pp. 245-261

Peter Gossum, Bas Arts and Kris Verheyen

There is no “point” in decision-making: a model of transactive rationality for public policy and administration pp. 263-287

Shyama Kuruvilla and Philipp Dorstewitz

Practitioner insights pp. 289-300

Susan Iott

Volume 43, issue 2, 2010

Climate change adaptation in the Alpine Shire of Australia: a decision process appraisal pp. 105-127

Lee Tryhorn and Amanda Lynch

Analysing decentralised natural resource governance: proposition for a “politicised” institutional analysis and development framework pp. 129-156

Floriane Clement

De-agrarianization, re-agrarianization and local economic development: Re-orientating livelihoods in African artisanal mining communities pp. 157-180

Sadia Banchirigah and Gavin Hilson

FDI and the costs of contract enforcement in developing countries pp. 181-200

John Ahlquist and Aseem Prakash

Eric M. Patashnik: Reforms at risk: what happens after major policy changes are enacted pp. 201-202

J. Fitch

Volume 43, issue 1, 2010

Analyzing the dynamic complexity of development interventions: lessons from an irrigation experiment in Nepal pp. 1-25

Wai Lam and Elinor Ostrom

A challenge for environmental governance: institutional change in a traditional common-property forest system pp. 27-48

Tanya Hayes

The role of governments in corporate social responsibility: characterising public policies on CSR in Europe pp. 49-72

Reinhard Steurer

Organizing interfaces between government institutions and interactive governance pp. 73-94

Jurian Edelenbos, Nienke Schie and Lasse Gerrits

Roger A. Pielke, Jr., The honest broker: making sense of science in policy and politics pp. 95-98

Kevin Currey and Susan Clark

Mary Adams Trujillo, S. Y. Bowland, Linda James Myers, Phillip M. Richards, Beth Roy (eds): Re-centering culture and knowledge in conflict resolution practice pp. 99-102

Patrick Coy

Volume 42, issue 4, 2009

Designing long-term policy: rethinking transition management pp. 275-302

Jan-Peter Voß, Adrian Smith and John Grin

Transitioning policy: co-production of a new strategic framework for energy innovation policy in the Netherlands pp. 303-322

Rene Kemp and Jan Rotmans

What about the politics? Sustainable development, transition management, and long term energy transitions pp. 323-340

James Meadowcroft

Policy design without democracy? Making democratic sense of transition management pp. 341-368

Carolyn Hendriks

Empowerment and the challenge of applying transition management to ongoing projects pp. 369-390

Flor Avelino

Implementing transition management as policy reforms: a case study of the Dutch energy sector pp. 391-408

Florian Kern and Michael Howlett

Designed to travel? Transition management encounters environmental and innovation policy histories in Finland pp. 409-427

Eva Heiskanen, Sirkku Kivisaari, Raimo Lovio and Per Mickwitz

Volume 42, issue 3, 2009

Homeland security and citizen response to emergency situations: a perspective on the need for a policy approach to information access pp. 195-210

Charles Herrick

A fresh look at a policy sciences methodology: collaborative modeling for more effective policy pp. 211-225

Kristan Cockerill, Lacy Daniel, Leonard Malczynski and Vincent Tidwell

Narrative policy analysis and the integration of public involvement in decision making pp. 227-242

Greg Hampton

Signaling virtue: voluntary accountability programs among nonprofit organizations pp. 243-273

Mary Gugerty

Volume 42, issue 2, 2009

Integrative problem solving: the policy sciences as a framework for conservation policy and planning pp. 91-93

Peter Wilshusen and Richard Wallace

The American West’s longest large mammal migration: clarifying and securing the common interest pp. 95-111

David Cherney and Susan Clark

Human-provided waters for desert wildlife: what is the problem? pp. 113-135

David Mattson and Nina Chambers

Social process as everyday practice: the micro politics of community-based conservation and development in southeastern Mexico pp. 137-162

Peter Wilshusen

Interdisciplinary problem solving workshops for grizzly bear conservation in Banff National Park, Canada pp. 163-187

Murray Rutherford, Michael Gibeau, Susan Clark and Emily Chamberlain

Kennedy, Sheila S., God and Country: America in Red and Blue pp. 189-191

David Cherney

Note from the editor Lasswell prize announcement for volume 41 (2008) pp. 193-193

Toddi Steelman

Volume 42, issue 1, 2009

New editor statement pp. 1-2

Toddi Steelman

Business responses to environmental and social protection policies: toward a framework for analysis pp. 3-32

Jorge Rivera, Jennifer Oetzel, Peter deLeon and Mark Starik

Policy dynamics and the evolution of state charter school laws pp. 33-55

Thomas Holyoke, Jeffrey Henig, Heath Brown and Natalie Lacireno-Paquet

The rise and fall of a policy: policy succession and the attempted termination of ecological corridors policy in the Netherlands pp. 57-72

Esther Turnhout

Governance modes, policy regimes and operational plans: A multi-level nested model of policy instrument choice and policy design pp. 73-89

Michael Howlett

Volume 41, issue 4, 2008

‘Opening up’ policy to reflexive appraisal: a role for Q Methodology? A case study of fire management in Cape York, Australia pp. 263-292

David Ockwell

Can the market help the forum? Negotiating the commercialization of deliberative democracy pp. 293-313

Carolyn Hendriks and Lyn Carson

Strategy of Chinese policy entrepreneurs in the third sector: challenges of “Technical Infeasibility” pp. 315-334

Xufeng Zhu

The use and non-use of policy appraisal tools in public policy making: an analysis of three European countries and the European Union pp. 335-355

Måns Nilsson, Andrew Jordan, John Turnpenny, Julia Hertin, Björn Nykvist and Duncan Russel

Policy change in nascent subsystems: Mozambican higher education policy 1993–2003 pp. 357-377

Jasmin Beverwijk, Leo Goedegebuure and Jeroen Huisman

Volume 41, issue 3, 2008

Education and economic growth in the United States: cross-national applications for an intra-national path analysis pp. 183-204

Norman Baldwin and Stephen Borrelli

Is an exemption from US groundwater regulations a loophole or a noose? pp. 205-220

Brigham Daniels, Erika Weinthal and Blake Hudson

An analysis of police traffic stops and searches in Kentucky: a mixed methods approach offering heuristic and practical implications pp. 221-243

Brian Williams and Michael Stahl

The problem with the “portfolio approach” in American energy policy pp. 245-261

Benjamin Sovacool

Volume 41, issue 2, 2008

Guest workers or unauthorized immigrants? The case of forest workers in the United States pp. 95-114

Brinda Sarathy and Vanessa Casanova

Conduit or contributor? The role of media in policy change theory pp. 115-138

Elizabeth Shanahan, Mark McBeth, Paul Hathaway and Ruth Arnell

The underappreciated role of regulatory enforcement in natural resource conservation pp. 139-164

Martin Nie

Balancing alternatives and avoiding false dichotomies to make informed U.S. electricity policy pp. 165-180

Frank Felder and Ruthanne Haut

Export processing zones and corporate environmental performance in emerging economies: The case of the oil, gas, and chemical sectors of Trinidad and Tobago pp. 181-182

Kalim Shah and Jorge Rivera

Volume 41, issue 1, 2008

Note from the editor-in-chief pp. 1-2

Matthew Auer

The policy scientist of democracy revisited pp. 3-19

Ronald Brunner

Revisiting Lasswell pp. 21-32

James Farr, Jacob Hacker and Nicole Kazee

Does the amount of participation matter? Public comments, agency responses and the time to finalize a regulation pp. 33-49

Stuart Shapiro

Conservation and community-based development through ecotourism in the temperate rainforest of southern Chile pp. 51-69

Maria McAlpin

Analyzing decentralized resource regimes from a polycentric perspective pp. 71-93

Krister Andersson and Elinor Ostrom