Policy Studies

1997 - 2025

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Volume 34, issue 5-6, 2013

Understanding localism, Part 2 pp. 491-491

Mark Evans, David Marsh and Gerry Stoker

Locality and localism: a view from British Human Geography pp. 492-507

Nick Clarke

History, heritage and localism pp. 508-522

Kynan Gentry

Localism: from adaptive to social leadership pp. 523-540

Paul Porteous

The localism gap – the CLEAR failings of official consultation in the Murray Darling Basin pp. 541-558

Mark Evans and Lawrence Pratchett

Localism and the Transition movement pp. 559-574

Andrea Felicetti

Localism and the paradox of devolution: delegated citizen committees in Victoria, Australia pp. 575-591

Carolyn M. Hendriks, Annie Bolitho and Chad Foulkes

Localism in practice: insights from two Tasmanian case studies pp. 592-611

Melanie Dare

In conclusion: localism in the present and the future pp. 612-617

Mark Evans, Gerry Stoker and David Marsh

A contextual framework for assessing reconstructive prime ministerial success pp. 618-637

Brendan McCaffrie

The power of expertise? Politician–bureaucrat interactions, national budget transparency and the Israeli health care policy pp. 638-654

Nissim Cohen

Volume 34, issue 4, 2013

Understanding localism pp. 401-407

Mark Evans, David Marsh and Gerry Stoker

The localist turn in British politics and its critics pp. 408-421

Kevin Hickson

The democratic challenges and potential of localism: insights from deliberative democracy pp. 422-440

Selen A. Ercan and Carolyn M. Hendriks

The coupling of rural communities with their economic base: agriculture, localism and the discourse of self-sufficiency pp. 441-454

Anthony Hogan and Stewart Lockie

From blank spaces to flows of life: transforming community engagement in environmental decision-making and its implications for localism pp. 455-473

Deirdre A. Wilcock

Losing localism, constraining councillors: why the Northern Territory supershires are struggling pp. 474-490

Will Sanders

Volume 34, issue 3, 2013

Reassessing the concept of policy termination: the case of regional policy in England pp. 255-273

Martin Ferry and John Bachtler

a strategy in search of a regional policy rationale? pp. 274-290

Leslie Budd

Has the British National Health Service (NHS) got talent? A process evaluation of the NHS talent management strategy? pp. 291-309

Martin Powell, Jo Duberley, Mark Exworthy, Fraser Macfarlane and Phil Moss

History and Australian indigenous child welfare policies pp. 310-325

Judith Bessant

Mapping social policy development in sub-Saharan Africa pp. 326-341

Michael Kpessa and Daniel Béland

Creating sustainable employment opportunities for the unemployed pp. 342-359

A. McBride and S. Mustchin

Pathways back to work for problem alcohol users pp. 360-376

Linda Bauld, Lorna Templeton, Karin Silver, Jennifer McKell, Claire Novak and Gordon Hay

Economic place making: policy messages for European cities pp. 377-400

Michael Parkinson and Richard Meegan

Volume 34, issue 2, 2013

Editorial pp. 113-121

Emma Carmel and Regine Paul

Strategic contextualisation: free movement, labour migration policies and the governance of foreign workers in Europe pp. 122-141

Regine Paul

Swimming against the tide: why Sweden supports increased labour mobility within and from outside the EU pp. 142-161

Linda Berg and Andrea Spehar

Competing frames of immigrant integration in the EU: geographies of social inclusion in Italian regions pp. 162-179

Francesca Campomori and Tiziana Caponio

Understanding the diversity of EU migration policy in practice: the implementation of the Blue Card initiative pp. 180-200

Lucie Cerna

Free provision of services and cross-border labour recruitment pp. 201-220

Jan Cremers

Economic crisis and migrants' employment: a view from Greece in comparative perspective pp. 221-237

Thanos Maroukis

Mobility, migration and rights in the European Union: critical reflections on policy and practice pp. 238-253

Emma Carmel

Volume 34, issue 1, 2013

Apology from the Editor pp. 1-1

Mark Evans

A multi-disciplinary approach to policy transfer research: geographies, assemblages, mobilities and mutations pp. 2-18

Eugene McCann and Kevin Ward

Bandwagoning municipal enterprises: institutional isomorphism and the search for the Third Way pp. 19-35

Tomi Kallio and Päivikki Kuoppakangas

An independent review of British health and safety regulation? From common sense to non-sense pp. 36-52

Phil James, Steve Tombs and David Whyte

There and back again: convergence towards the competition state plan pp. 53-72

Daniel Horsfall

The adaptive state – understanding political reform in China pp. 73-88

Hongxia Chai and Xiongwei Song

Understanding the eradication of slave labour in contemporary Brazil – an implementation perspective pp. 89-111

Samuel Antero

Volume 33, issue 6, 2012

Policy transfer: coming of age and learning from the experience pp. 477-481

David Marsh and Mark Evans

Transfer and translation of policy pp. 483-499

Diane Stone

Stormwater management: can we learn from others? pp. 501-521

David Dolowitz, Melissa Keeley and Dale Medearis

The merry mandarins of Windsor: policy transfer and transgovernmental networks in the Anglosphere pp. 523-540

Timothy Legrand

Post-war reconstruction, policy transfer and the World Bank: the case of Afghanistan's National Solidarity Programme pp. 541-565

Mark Evans and Sultan Barakat

The neglected dimension: bringing time back into cross-national policy transfer studies pp. 567-585

Mauricio Dussauge-Laguna

Policy transfer: into the future, learning from the past pp. 587-591

David Marsh and Mark Evans

Editorial Board pp. ebi-ebi

The Editors

Volume 33, issue 5, 2012

Turtles all the way down: bounded rationality in an evidence-based age pp. 367-379

Linda Botterill and Andrew Hindmoor

‘Because we all know that vaccines are an extremely effective public health tool’: path dependency, H1N1 and the World Health Organisation pp. 381-397

Sudeepa Abeysinghe

Discursive institutionalism and policy stasis in simple and compound polities: the cases of Estonian fiscal policy and United States climate change policy pp. 399-418

Mat Hope and Ringa Raudla

Fronting up to skills utilisation: what can we learn from Scotland's skills utilisation projects? pp. 419-438

Jonathan Payne

Karzai's curse – legitimacy as stability in Afghanistan and other post-conflict environments pp. 439-454

Sultan Barakat, Mark Evans and Steven Zyck

New legislative settings and the application of the participative-democratic model of mainstreaming equality in public policy making: evidence from the UK's devolution programme pp. 455-476

Paul Chaney

Volume 33, issue 4, 2012

A comparative study of framing immigration policy after 11 September 2001 pp. 283-296

Lauretta Frederking

The mathematics of Mexico–US migration and US immigration policy pp. 297-312

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera and Miriam Rojas-Arenaza

Can area-based regeneration programmes ever work? Evidence from England's New Deal for Communities Programme pp. 313-328

Paul Lawless

Overseas and over here: policy transfer and evidence-based policy-making pp. 329-348

Timothy Legrand

Localism and poverty in the United Kingdom: the case of Local Welfare Assistance pp. 349-365

Chris Grover

Volume 33, issue 3, 2012

Tackling the undeclared economy in the European construction industry pp. 193-214

Colin Williams and Sara Nadin

Towards (un)sustainable employment? Exploring policy responses to work-welfare cycling pp. 215-230

David McCollum

Raising educational standards: national testing of pupils in the United Kingdom, 1988–2009 pp. 231-247

Paola Mattei

The role of faith-based organisations in the Big Society: opportunities and challenges pp. 249-262

Hannah Lambie-Mumford and David Jarvis

Health panels: the development of a meaningful method of public involvement pp. 263-281

Nicola Coe

Volume 33, issue 2, 2012

Narratives of British democracy pp. 115-120

Stephen Driver

Speaking for the people: a conservative narrative of democracy pp. 121-132

Philip Norton

A social democratic narrative of British democracy pp. 133-144

Matt Beech

Northern Ireland narratives of British democracy pp. 145-158

A. Aughey

The shock of the new? Democratic narratives and political agency pp. 159-172

Stephen Driver, Alexander Hensby and Joanne Sibthorpe

Towards an English narrative of democracy? pp. 173-191

Simon Lee

Volume 33, issue 1, 2012

Understanding integrity in public administration: Guest Editors' Introduction pp. 1-5

Chris Aulich, Roger Wettenhall and Mark Evans

The contribution of integrity agencies to good governance pp. 7-20

Brian Head

Australian integrity agencies in critical perspective pp. 21-35

Scott Prasser

Institutional maturity and challenges for integrity bodies pp. 37-47

Ian Thynne

Autonomy and control in three Australian Capital Territory-based integrity agencies pp. 49-63

Chris Aulich

Integrity agencies: the significance of the parliamentary relationship pp. 65-78

Roger Wettenhall

New integrity issues for independents and minority governments pp. 79-95

Brenton Prosser

Beyond the integrity paradox – towards ‘good enough’ governance? pp. 97-113

Mark Evans