Abstract Because the essence of terrorism is to produce a psychological impact far greater than its physical impact, the relationship of contemporary international terrorism...

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...

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 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...

Political science and public policy scholars have long emphasised the importance of understanding institutional change and policy entrepreneurship. This review article is a...

This special section analyses the practices and the performativity of intermediaries. Rather than conceiving intermediaries as agents that passively transfer knowledge and...

The present document provides the take of innovation economists on the current pandemic. It is addressed to the general public and focuses on questions related to the Science,...

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...

AbstractIn this article, we aim to explain international differences in socio-demographic structure of population among people around retirement age. We further test if...

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...

Abstract Dichotomous sets of policy alternatives – like market vs state – and metaphors – like carrots vs sticks – lend themselves to blunt thinking about instruments and...

In recent years, the traditional rationale for innovation policy has been expanded to tackling societal challenges. There is also an increasing agreement that demand should be...

This article seeks to explain what policy approaches and policy measures are best suited for promoting new regional industrial path development and what needs and possibilities...

The current article responds to a key puzzle and a question. First, why, given the potential for ‘rights talk’ that has been seen in other countries and other policy areas, have...

This article aims to shed light on the attempts that have been made to adjust Finnish policy-making to the changes in the global techno-economic environment, as well as to the...

In the last two decades, China has experienced significant economic transformations and social changes. The economic reforms started in the late 1970s have unquestionably...

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...

ABSTRACTThis article examines the implications of the euro crisis for theories of political economy associated with ‘varieties of capitalism’, considering how those theories...

ABSTRACTThrough policy feedback mechanisms, public policies can shape individuals’ preferences for those policies. While research has focused on the direct link between policies...

Since the 2007–2008 global banking crisis, systemic risk has become the central target of policy design in banking regulation in many countries. At the same time, a growing...