Policy Studies

1997 - 2025

Current editor(s): Toby James

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Volume 38, issue 6, 2017

Holy Grail or inflated expectations? The success and failure of integrated policy strategies pp. 519-552

Jeroen J. L. Candel

Policy integration: mapping the different concepts pp. 553-570

Jale Tosun and Achim Lang

Coping, taming or solving: alternative approaches to the governance of wicked problems pp. 571-588

Falk Daviter

Combatting voter ignorance: a vertical model of epistocratic voting pp. 589-603

Mark Chou

Policy instrument affordances: a framework for analysis pp. 604-621

Tomas Hellström and Merle Jacob

From Keynes to a theoretical-political approach to conventional economics pp. 622-639

Alessandro Morselli

Cumulative influence: the case of political settlements research in British policy pp. 640-663

Sultan Barakat and Thomas Waldman

Volume 38, issue 5, 2017

Understanding water governance: the case of Australia’s Murray-darling basin pp. 411-417

Lain Dare and Mark Evans

An institutional perspective on programme integration pp. 418-431

Leonie J. Pearson, Barbara Norman, Peter O'Brien and Robert Tanton

An evidence-based approach for integrating ecological, hydrological and consumptive models to optimize flow management: a proof of concept pp. 432-446

Susan J. Nichols, Sue J. Powell, Michael Peat and William Johnson

Why groundwater matters: an introduction for policy-makers and managers pp. 447-461

Jarrod Kath and Fiona J. Dyer

Australian water governance in the global context: understanding the benefits of localism pp. 462-481

Melanie (Lain) Dare and Katherine A. Daniell

Farm adjustment strategies to water-related challenges in the Murray-Darling Basin pp. 482-501

Huong Dinh, Anne Daly and Ben Freyens

Market-based governance and water management: the limits to economic rationalism in public policy pp. 502-517

Lyndal Hasselman and Gerry Stoker

Volume 38, issue 4, 2017

Benefits and risks of collaboration between watchdogs: the Western Australian experience pp. 291-310

Peter Wilkins, John Phillimore and David Gilchrist

Innovation policy configuration – a comparative study of Russia and China pp. 311-338

Fan Li, Lynne Butel and Peijie Wang

Getting back on track: the expanded use of PPPs in Ireland since the global financial crisis pp. 339-355

Eoin Reeves and Dónal Palcic

Currency boards, depoliticization and macroeconomic stability: the political economy of institutional complementarities pp. 356-374

Magnus Feldmann and Vytautas Kuokštis

Measuring the economic impacts of recent oil price shocks on oil-dependent economy: evidence from Malaysia pp. 375-391

Ibrahim Kabiru Maji, Mohd Yusof Saari, Muzafar Shah Habibullah and Chakrin Utit

Effecting change in local government: local authority chief executives as emotional actors pp. 392-409

Graham Williams and Jane Tobbell

Volume 38, issue 3, 2017

Five faces of presidential governance: insights from policy-making in democratic Brazil pp. 205-215

Tracy B. Fenwick, Sean W. Burges and Timothy J. Power

Presidents and policy-making: has Brazil’s CCT-led anti-poverty agenda gone far enough? pp. 216-230

Tracy B. Fenwick

Explaining infrastructure underperformance in Brazil: cash, political institutions, corruption, and policy Gestalts pp. 231-247

Leslie Elliott Armijo and Sybil D. Rhodes

Presidents, producers and politics: law-and-order policy in Brazil from Cardoso to Dilma pp. 248-261

Fiona Macaulay

Tracking presidents and policies: environmental politics from Lula to Dilma pp. 262-276

Kathryn Hochstetler

The importance of presidential leadership for Brazilian foreign policy pp. 277-290

Sean W. Burges and Fabrício H. Chagas Bastos

Volume 38, issue 2, 2017

Structuring composite local governance indicators pp. 109-129

Nuno da Cruz and Rc Marques

The effects of centralising electoral management board design pp. 130-148

Toby S. James

‘Pragmatic complexity’ a new foundation for moving beyond ‘evidence-based policy making’? pp. 149-167

Christopher Ansell and Robert Geyer

What Anonymous can tell us about the relationship between virtual community structure and participatory form pp. 168-184

Max Halupka

The propensity of third sector organisations to borrow money in the UK pp. 185-204

Tony Chapman

Volume 38, issue 1, 2017

How to get evidence? The role of government–business interaction in evidence-based policy-making for the development of Internet of Things industry in China pp. 1-20

Zhilong Tian, Jun Shi, Taieb Hafsi and Bowen Tian

The role of individual agents in promoting peace processes: business people and policy entrepreneurship in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict pp. 21-38

Niva Golan-Nadir and Nissim Cohen

Distorted policy transfer? South Korea’s adaptation of UK social enterprise policy pp. 39-58

Chisung Park, Jooha Lee and Mark Wilding

Post-crisis learning in public agencies: what do we learn from both actors and institutions? pp. 59-75

Nathalie Schiffino, Laurent Taskin, Céline Donis and Julien Raone

A new framework for understanding subnational policy-making and local choice pp. 76-90

Peter Eckersley

Real-world Europeanisation: the silent turning of small gears pp. 91-107

Morten Jarlbæk Pedersen

Volume 37, issue 6, 2016

Performing the state: the socio-political dimensions of performance measurement in policy and public services pp. 499-507

Paul Henman

Performance measurement as a policy instrument pp. 508-520

Patrick Le Galès

Population health performance as primary healthcare governance in Australia: professionals and the politics of performance pp. 521-534

Michele Foster, Paul Henman, Alison Gable and Michelle Denton

Hitting the target without missing the point: New Zealand’s immunisation health target for two year olds pp. 535-550

Esther Willing

The challenge of quantifying national well-being: lessons from the Measures of Australia's Progress initiative pp. 551-567

Cosmo Howard and Amber Chambers

NAPLAN data: a new policy assemblage and mode of governance in Australian schooling pp. 568-582

Alison Gable and Bob Lingard

Repositioning prevention in child protection using performance indicators pp. 583-596

Clare Tilbury

Techniques and paradoxes in performing performance measurements: concluding reflections pp. 597-609

Paul Henman

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Volume 37, issue 5, 2016

From new labour to Rudd/Gillard: dilemmas, lesson-drawing and policy transfer pp. 403-407

Rob Manwaring

After New Labour: political and policy consequences of welfare state reforms in the United Kingdom and Australia pp. 408-425

Shaun Wilson and Ben Spies-Butcher

From New Labour to Rudd/Gillard – transferring social policy pp. 426-439

Rob Manwaring

Elite, exclusive and elusive: transgovernmental policy networks and iterative policy transfer in the Anglosphere pp. 440-455

Tim Legrand

Fraternal foreign policy transfer? Evaluating the case of Australian Labor and British Labour pp. 456-470

Andrew O'Neil

Policy transfer, contagion effects and intra-party reform pp. 471-485

Anika Gauja

Labour parties, ideas transfer and ideological positioning: Australia and Britain compared pp. 486-498

B. M. Edwards and Matt Beech

Volume 37, issue 4, 2016

Using government manifestos to analyse the political salience and shape of anti-corruption policies in the Czech Republic and Slovakia pp. 295-313

Emilia Sicakova-Beblava and Miroslav Beblavy

A governance network perspective on environmental conflicts in China: findings from the Dalian paraxylene conflict pp. 314-331

Yi Liu, Yanwei Li, Bao Xi and Joop Koppenjan

Making better regulation, making regulation better? pp. 332-349

Steve Tombs

A comparative study of legitimation strategies in hybrid regimes pp. 350-369

Honorata Mazepus, Wouter Veenendaal, Anthea McCarthy-Jones and Juan Manuel Trak Vásquez

The economic impact of prolonged political instability: a case study of Fiji pp. 370-386

Xiaodong Gong and Maheshwar Rao

Creative placemaking and the NEA: unpacking a multi-level governance pp. 387-402

Eleonora Redaelli

Volume 37, issue 3, 2016

Imagined past, present and futures in Murray–Darling Basin communities pp. 197-215

Leonie J. Pearson, Samuel Wilson, Yoshihisa Kashima, Dean Lusher and Craig J. Pearson

Social determinants of police corruption: toward public policies for the prevention of police corruption pp. 216-235

J. Octavio Gutierrez-Garcia and Luis-Felipe Rodríguez

Federalism and the politics of fiscal responsibility laws: Argentina and Brazil in comparative perspective pp. 236-253

Jorge P. Gordin

Residents’ preferred policy actions for shrinking cities pp. 254-273

Maria Helena Guimarães, Luis Nunes, Ana Paula Barreira and Thomas Panagopoulos

Spillover effects of taxes on government debt: a spatial panel approach pp. 274-293

Katarzyna Kopczewska, Janusz Kudła, Konrad Walczyk, Robert Kruszewski and Agata Kocia

Volume 37, issue 2, 2016

Transparency and ‘uncomfortable knowledge’ in child protection pp. 93-112

Judith Bessant and Karen Broadley

Nudge or nuzzle? Improving decisions about active citizenship pp. 113-128

Graham Room

How different forms of policy learning influence each other: case studies from Austrian innovation policy-making pp. 129-146

Peter Biegelbauer

School factors helping disadvantaged students to succeed: empirical evidence from four Italian cities pp. 147-177

Tommaso Agasisti, Mara Soncin and Riccardo Valenti

The impact of quasi-markets on processes and factors affecting the costs of contracting pp. 178-196

Jaana Hurri, Jari Vuori, Joyce Liddle and Pauline Allen

Volume 37, issue 1, 2016

The role of civic leadership in fostering economic resilience in City Regions pp. 1-16

Chay Brooks, Tim Vorley and Nick Williams

Dynamics of emergency management in the Gangwon province, Korea pp. 17-34

Kyoo-Man Ha

Learning by doing: the case of administrative policy transfer in China pp. 35-52

Yanzhe Zhang and David Marsh

On comparing cost of living of cities using expatriate price survey pp. 53-71

Boon Seng Tan

Neoliberalism and the reform of regulation policy in the Australian trucking sector: policy innovation or a repeat of known pitfalls? pp. 72-92

Christopher Kevin Walker