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Foreign Policy Decision Making
The chapter enriches the theoretical literature on foreign policy decision making and contributes to the theoretical debates about the strengths and...
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Enlightenment, politicisation or mere window dressing? Europeanisation and the use of evidence for policy making in Bulgaria
Evidence-based policy making (EBPM) has been a key pillar of the better regulation agenda of the European Union. However, the extent to which it has...
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The Significance of Leadership in the Evolution of Policy Styles: Reconciling Policy-Making in the Short and Long Term
Can relatively short-term political leadership affect long-term national policy styles, and if so, how? We examine these questions in order to...
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Policy Making
This chapter deals with policy making. It explains the OECD Recommendations on putting in place a ‘Meta Policy’ to regulate the process of policy...
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A climate of optimism? EU policy-making, political science and the democratization of Central and Eastern Europe (2000–2015)
Democratic erosion in the EU’s Central and Eastern European (CEE) member states has confounded EU policy-makers. In this paper, we investigate the...
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Participatory decision-making in the policy integration process: indigenous consultation and sustainable development in Mexico
This article explores the role of participation by indigenous peoples in Latin America in the political process of Environmental Policy Integration...
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Natural Disasters and Indonesian Foreign Policy Making
Natural disasters are key drivers in Indonesian foreign policy and are entangled with internal and external interests. Internally, Indonesia has...
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The Nexus of Policy Legitimacy and Crisismanship Performance: Examining the Harmonizing Role of Value-Based Decision Making
Crisismanship performance is an acid test of governance. Legitimate policies can significantly contribute to the crisismanship performance because...
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Policy-Making and Budget Changes
Is public budgeting an erratic or a meticulous process? The issue of the management of the public budget is old, complicated, and increasingly...
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Organized interests in post-communist policy-making: a new dataset for comparative research
This article familiarizes readers with the international research project ‘The Missing Link: Exploring Organized Interests in Post-Communist...
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Policy-Making as Social Problem-Solving
A pluralist, democratic, and political politics acknowledges that while people may have some interests in common, we also have different, competing,...
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Travelling Far and Wide? Applying the Multiple Streams Framework to Policy-Making in Autocracies
The Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) builds on the concepts of timing and ambiguity and their effects on the policy process. Since its introduction...
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From Research to Policy Action: Communicating Research for Public Policy Making
This chapter underscores the importance of engaging policy makers and other stakeholders in the research process. Recognizing that there are two...
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Research and Knowledge in Public Policy Making
The raw material for sound and evidence-based public policy is knowledge. Relevant knowledge comes from research. Thus, research and knowledge are...
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The Making of Defence Policy in Canada
Much has been written on various aspects of Canadian defence: on military history, for example, or on budgets, procurement, and participation in wars...
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The Role of Scientific Expertise in COVID-19 Policy-making: Evidence from Four European Countries
Immense uncertainty and the need for drastic interventions cause politicians to rely heavily on scientific advice for underpinning or legitimating...
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Public Opinion and the Policy Making Process in Ghana’s Fourth Republic
Public opinion plays a critical role in policy making both ideationally and normatively. The place of public opinion in sha** policymaking is...
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Rethinking disproportionate policy making by introducing proportionate politics
This article seeks to critique and extend recent work in the policy sciences, by Maor in particular, on disproportionate policy making—including...
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Aid Effectiveness and Kenya’s Agricultural Policy and Strategy-Making Processes
This chapter is dedicated to examining the processes through which policy and comprehensive sector strategies are developed from the national...
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Implementing policy integration: policy regimes for care policy in Chile and Uruguay
How are integrated policies implemented? In this paper we analyze two policies in Latin America aimed at securing integral care to children to show...