Policy studies increasingly focus on the role of ideas. It is not altogether a new insight that ideas matter in policy making, but it is a new phenomenon that it has become a dominant approach. This Ph.D. course offers a vide variety of theories and methods that theorize on how and under what...

In the last few decades, house prices have undergone major medium-run fluctuations in many industrialized economies. Boom-bust cycles in house prices, coupled with a substantial increase in household indebtedness, have drawn the attention of policymakers and academics towards the developments in...

Papers are therefore solicited on issues including: •Specific or general organizational patterns of media firms •Heuristic application of industrial organizational models to media firms •Relationship between organizational structure and strategies •Relationship between organizational...

The Summer School is targeted at PhD-students who have started, or are about to start, a project on a social policy issue, and who feel a need to broaden and deepen their understanding of: • welfare states and social policies, their origin, aims, principles, and practices, as well as about the...

The conference will focus on positive and normative studies of public policies that affect retirement behavior, including Social Security, Medical Insurance, Unemployment Insurance and Disability Insurance programs. These programs constitute a large and growing share of government expenditures,...