In the Musgravean tradition the concept of public goods has become a central element of the theory of public allocation policy. The basic argument for this prominent role ofpublic goods is thatjointness in consumption - ...

Industry 4.0 has brought new transformations to the organizations. Therefore, many countries have applied public policies in order to contribute to the economic competitiveness. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the ...

This Thematic Special Issue on Policy Change and Policy Dynamics has as its main objective to present and discuss agenda setting, one of the most important issues for the study of public policies and the policy process. ...

Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) are recommended as part of comprehensive policy action to prevent diet-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs), but have been adopted by only one quarter of World Health Organization ...

The legitimacy of modern states depends on the ability of democratic institutions to reflect citizens’ preferences and values and on the state’s ability to use technical expertise competently. Legitimacy has a three-fold ...

This paper discusses the presence of public policy as a subject of the public administration discipline in Brazil and the USA. The US experience is included due not only to the role the USA played in founding the discipline, ...

Information Technology (IT) began to be widely used across all sectors of the economy in the 1980s, prompting governments to develop new policy instruments. By comparing the evolution of IT policy in Canada, the Netherlands ...

This article examines the influence of major international paradigms on nanoscience and nanotechnology funding policies (nanoS & T) pursued in France during the 2000s (1999–2013). It is concerned with how foreign examples ...

The research presented in this dissertation focuses on the role of the State in building the Information Society from the comparative analysis of broadband policies established in Argentina and Brazil, between 2008 and ...