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Contested Narratives, Ambiguous Impacts and Democratic Dilemmas: The Western ...
Abstract Because the essence of terrorism is to produce a psychological impact far greater than its physical impact, the relationship of contemporary international terrorism... -
Social Enterprise in Europe: At the Crossroads of Market, Public Policies and...
Over the last 15 years, the concept of social enterprise has been raising an increasing interest in various regions of the world. In the present paper, we describe, first, the... -
Quality assurance in the European policy arena
Our paper investigates the emergence, development and contested nature of quality assurance (QA) in the European policy arena as part and parcel of the Bologna Process. We... -
Marketization and China's energy security
Marketization of the petroleum industry is part of China's efforts to construct a market economy. This has provided strong incentives for national oil companies (NOCs) to seek... -
When, why and how institutional change takes place: a systematic review and a...
Political science and public policy scholars have long emphasised the importance of understanding institutional change and policy entrepreneurship. This review article is a... -
Neoliberal exception to liberal democracy? Entrepreneurial territorial govern...
International audience; Focusing on the industrial area local authority (IALA), a governance regime widely applied in the south Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana,... -
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AbstractSince 1980, over one-quarter of social pact proposals have failed to result in social pact agreements. In order to explain this high failure rate, the social pact... -
Editorial Financial sector reform and policy design in an age of instability
The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2008 has revealed weaknesses in financial regulatory policies and institutions in many countries. These weaknesses extend to the regional... -
Demonisation of political discourses? How mainstream parties talk about the p...
Academic research focuses on political communication of populist radical right parties and on their discourses about the political mainstream. Yet, we know less about how the... -
Impact of Reforms on the Labour System in China
Abstract Reform in the labour system in China signalled a major departure from the past socialist allocation system which equated the right to work, with life-long tenure... -
Beyond Good and Evil in Policy Implementation: Instrument Mixes, Implementati...
Abstract Dichotomous sets of policy alternatives – like market vs state – and metaphors – like carrots vs sticks – lend themselves to blunt thinking about instruments and... -
Networkers, fund hunters, intermediaries, or policy players? The activities o...
Regions started opening offices in Brussels in the mid-1980s. Today, well over half of Europe’s regions are present there. What do they do once they are in Brussels? Are they... -
March divided, fight united? Trade union cohesion and government appeal for c...
AbstractWhy does the government appeal for concertation? Starting from the principal‒agent framework and delegation theory, the article argues that the government is more... -
Business interests, public interests, and experts in parliamentary committees...
This study examines the evolving role of parliamentary committees in legislative decision-making and their relationships with external actors when amending bills. Drawing on... -
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Failure by democratic states to resolve protracted international territorial disputes has often been traced to domestic politics. In seeking advantages at the bargaining table... -
Participatory effects of regional authority: decentralisation and political p...
This article studies political participation in the context of decentralisation in Europe. Recent secession attempts demonstrate how the demand for decentralisation energises... -
Four ways to avoid centripetal effects. How political actors escape instituti...
For democracy in ethnically divided societies, political moderation is crucial. The centripetalist school recommends that countries should introduce institutions which offer... -
The politicisation of European integration in domestic election campaigns
How strongly is European integration being politicised in election campaigns, and what explains why a party chooses to emphasise Europe or, by contrast, remains silent about it?... -
Reasserting the public in public service delivery: The de-privatization and d...
In the last two decades, China has experienced significant economic transformations and social changes. The economic reforms started in the late 1970s have unquestionably... -
Policy learning and policy networks in theory and practice: The role of polic...
textabstractThis paper examines how learning has been treated, generally, in policy network theories and what questions have been posed, and answered, about this phenomenon to...
