Policy Studies

1997 - 2025

Current editor(s): Toby James

From Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 30, issue 5, 2009

Divergent skills policy trajectories in England and Scotland after Leitch pp. 473-494

Jonathan Payne

School leadership and education policy-making in England pp. 495-511

Helen Gunter and Gillian Forrester

Turning failure into success: what does the case of Western Australia tell us about Canadian cannabis policy-making? pp. 513-531

Elaine Hyshka

Expanding innovation system and policy – an organisational perspective pp. 533-553

Elise Ramstad

Volume 30, issue 4, 2009

Has social care performance in England improved? An analysis of performance ratings across social services organisations pp. 403-422

Paul Clarkson, Sue Davies, David Challis, Michael Donnelly and Roger Beech

Serving a stir-fry of market, culture and politics – on globalisation and film policy in Greater China pp. 423-438

Zhihong Gao

Has Labour decentralised the NHS? Terminological obfuscation and analytical confusion pp. 439-454

Ian Greener, Mark Exworthy, Stephen Peckham and Martin Powell

Best value, cost-effectiveness and local housing policies pp. 455-471

Colin Jones and Hal Pawson

Volume 30, issue 3, 2009

New directions in the study of policy transfer pp. 237-241

Mark Evans

Policy transfer in critical perspective pp. 243-268

Mark Evans

Policy diffusion and policy transfer pp. 269-288

David Marsh and J.C. Sharman

Policy transfer as learning: capturing variation in what decision-makers learn from epistemic communities pp. 289-311

Claire Dunlop

Exporting public–private partnerships in healthcare: export strategy and policy transfer pp. 313-332

Chris Holden

Accounting for policy change through multi-level analysis: the reform of the Bank of England in the post-war era pp. 333-346

Sucheen Patel

The uncertain potential of policy-learning: a comparative assessment of three varieties pp. 347-363

Katrin Toens and Claudia Landwehr

Lesson-drawing and public policy: secondhand smoking restrictions in Scotland and England pp. 365-382

Bossman Asare and Donley Studlar

Policy mimesis in the context of global governance pp. 383-395

Andrew Massey

Parting shots pp. 397-402

Mark Evans

Volume 30, issue 2, 2009

The failed promise of multi-donor trust funds: aid financing as an impediment to effective state-building in post-conflict contexts pp. 107-126

Sultan Barakat

Alienated radicals and detached deviants: what do the lessons of the 1970 Falls Curfew and the alienation–radicalisation hypothesis mean for current British approaches to counter-terrorism? pp. 127-142

Deirdre Duffy

Tackling undeclared work in Europe: lessons from a 27-nation survey pp. 143-162

Colin Williams

Developing a framework to evaluate business networks: the case of Ireland's industry-led network initiative pp. 163-180

Nicola Lynch, Helena Lenihan and Mark Hart

Whatever happened to Régulation theory? The Régulation approach and local government revisited pp. 181-201

Toby James

‘Muddling through’ in a devolved polity: implementation of equal opportunities policy in Scotland pp. 203-219

G. Fyfe, K. Johnston Miller and D. McTavish

Devolution and institutional culture: path-dependency and the Welsh assembly pp. 221-235

Kerry Howell

Volume 30, issue 1, 2009

The Brown government pp. 1-3

Matt Beech and Simon Lee

A puzzle of ideas and policy: Gordon Brown as prime minister pp. 5-16

Matt Beech

The rock of stability? The political economy of the Brown government pp. 17-32

Simon Lee

Gordon Brown and public management reform – a project in search of a ‘big idea’? pp. 33-51

Mark Evans

The public services under Gordon Brown – similar reforms, less money pp. 53-67

Simon Griffiths

Work to be done? Welfare reform from Blair to Brown pp. 69-84

Stephen Driver

Gordon Brown and international policy pp. 85-100

Victoria Honeyman

The prospects for Brown's social democracy pp. 101-106

Matt Beech and Simon Lee

Volume 29, issue 4, 2008

Deliberative democracy, elite politics and electoral reform pp. 371-392

Matthew Flinders and Dion Curry

Sharpening up research on organics: why we need to integrate sectoral policy research into mainstream policy analysis pp. 393-404

Carsten Daugbjerg and Darren Halpin

Workplace effects of equal employment opportunity legislation: the Australian experience pp. 405-419

David Peetz, Margaret Gardner, Kerry Brown and Sandra Berns

Going separate ways? The reform of health insurance funds in Germany, Japan and South Korea pp. 421-435

Gyu-Jin Hwang

Volume 29, issue 3, 2008

A tale of two cities: auto plant closures and policy responses in Birmingham and Adelaide pp. 249-253

A. Beer and H. Thomas

Supply chains and locational adjustment in the global automotive industry pp. 255-266

Ho Yeon Kim and Philip McCann

Rover and out? Globalisation, the West Midlands auto cluster, and the end of MG Rover pp. 267-279

David Bailey, Seiji Kobayashi and Stewart MacNeill

Birmingham: whose urban renaissance? Regeneration as a response to economic restructuring pp. 281-292

Austin Barber and Stephen Hall

The housing and neighbourhood impacts of knowledge-based economic development following industrial closure pp. 293-304

Alex Burfitt and Ed Ferrari

The impact of factory closure on local communities and economies: the case of the MG Rover Longbridge closure in Birmingham pp. 305-317

Caroline Chapain and Alan Murie

Risk and return: housing tenure and labour market adjustment after employment loss in the automotive sector in Southern Adelaide pp. 319-330

Andrew Beer

Closure of an automotive plant: transformation of a work-based ‘community’ pp. 331-341

Fiona Verity and Gwyn Jolley

Auto plant closures, policy responses and labour market outcomes: a comparison of MG Rover in the UK and Mitsubishi in Australia pp. 343-355

Kathy Armstrong, David Bailey, Alex de Ruyter, Michelle Mahdon and Holli Thomas

A tale of two regions: comparative versus competitive approaches to economic restructuring pp. 357-370

Holli Thomas, Andrew Beer and David Bailey

Volume 29, issue 2, 2008

Pension reforms and saving for retirement: comparing the United Kingdom and Italy pp. 119-135

Roberta Adami and Orla Gough

The adoption of electronic medical record technology in order to prevent medical errors: a matter for American public policy pp. 137-143

Jacquelyn Crane and Frederick Crane

Training and workforce transformation in the European steel industry: questions for public policy pp. 145-161

Dean Stroud and Peter Fairbrother

Young men convicted of firearms offences in England and Wales: an exploration of family and educational background as opportunities for prevention pp. 163-178

Carol Hayden, Gavin Hales, Chris Lewis and Dan Silverstone

The reform of the 2003 Common Agricultural Policy: an advocacy coalition explanation pp. 179-195

Peter Nedergaard

From ‘harm minimization’ to ‘zero tolerance’ drugs policy in Australia: how the Howard government changed its mind pp. 197-214

Judith Bessant

Better regulation and enterprise: the case of environmental health risk regulation in Britain pp. 215-232

Ian Vickers

Now you see it, now you don't: reconsidering the problem of representation pp. 233-248

Magnus Dahlstedt

Volume 29, issue 1, 2008

Entering a brave new world? An assessment of third sector readiness to tender for the delivery of public services in the United Kingdom pp. 1-17

Tony Chapman, Judith Brown and Robert Crow

Pension reforms in France: the role of trade unions and the timing of the electoral cycle pp. 19-34

Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt

Devolution and quangos in the United Kingdom: the implementation of principles and policies for rationalisation and democratisation pp. 35-49

Derek Birrell

‘Blaming the victim’ child-focused Western law: implications of evidence-based policy-making for the rescue of Black families pp. 51-69

Ronald Hall, Ellen Whipple and Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore

The knowledge economy, skills and government labour market intervention pp. 71-86

Chris Warhurst

Organizational learning in novel policy situations: two cases of United States communications regulation pp. 87-100

Michael Zarkin

‘No policy is an island’ – on the interaction between industrial and other policies pp. 101-118

Timo Valila