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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... -
Cross-specialisation policy : rationales and options for linking unrelated in...
In this article, we discuss how economies’ established stronghold industries can form a basis for sustaining competitiveness. As changing market circumstances demand economic... -
Consequences of climate change and how to survive past the year 2050
There is strong scientific consensus that the climate is drastically changing due to increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and that these changes are largely... -
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... -
Obesity around Retirement Age: International Comparison Using SHARE
AbstractIn this article, we aim to explain international differences in socio-demographic structure of population among people around retirement age. We further test if... -
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... -
Trusting the Press and Political Trust: A Conditional Relationship
Despite the fact that the media serves as a vital source of information about politics, the relation between media trust and political trust has largely been overlooked,... -
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This paper examines whether and how electoral rules moderate the effect of voter bias on candidate choice. Voter bias against female candidates follows a pattern known as... -
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Published online: 24 January 2019 Do voters punish governments more severely during international economic crises or do they discount exogenous shocks as they recognize the... -
Disentangling shape from level effects in person-centered analyses : An illus...
This study compares alternative ways of disentangling the effects of level (the tendency for a person to be high, medium, or low across all factors) and shape (the tendency for... -
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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... -
Retrospective voting and party support at elections: credit and blame for gov...
ABSTRACT Retrospective voting is arguably one of the most important mechanisms of representative democracy, and whether or not the public holds the government accountable for... -
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... -
Raining on the parties’ parade: how media storms disrupt the electoral commun...
Literature on agenda-building dynamics has neglected to assess the impact of contextual factors on the interplays between the issue attention of political actors and of the...
