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. ...

In some Latin American nations, policy change occurs frequently, while in others it is stable, less prone to shifts with the prevailing political climate or shocks. The conditions under which institutional rules and the ...

Policy hierarchies and automated policy refinement are powerful approaches to simplify administration of security services in complex network environments. A crucial issue for the practical use of these approaches is to ...

This book explores emerging topics in innovation policy for more inclusive and sustainable growth, building on concrete examples. It develops the notion of experimental innovation policy – which integrates monitoring and ...

Over the past decades, research on policy formulation, especially research on agenda-setting, has demonstrated that the actions of individuals (or groups) labelled ‘policy entrepreneurs’ constitute a central aspect of the ...

International transparency policy indexes (ITPIs) help determine billions in investment and aid, influence 'authoritative' scholarship, and shape policy choices. Are ITPIs valid yardsticks.of transparency, or do they ...

The agrarian policies implemented in the last decades have proved insufficient to generate rural development in the country. The positioning of the State concening public policies for agriculture has historically proved ...