There is no denying that policy actors matter in driving policy change. Most of the policy process frameworks argued for the centrality of policy actors but have similarly contended that the occurrence of policy change is contingent upon the dynamic interaction of policy actors, organizations...

The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 established a clear global mandate for greater integrated policymaking. This concern for policy integration has forced practitioners and academics to rethink many underlying principles about this relatively old but poorly...

This study assesses the usefulness of conceptions of policy capacity for understanding policy and governance outcomes. In order to shed light on this issue, we revisit the concept of governance, derive a model of governance types and discuss their capacity pre-requisites. A model of capacity is...

In this paper, we seek to clarify further the processes of internationalization on environmental policy convergence by focussing narrowly on transnational communication as a mechanism for policy learning mediated by a country’s policy analytical capacity. We argue that without significant...

Lesson drawing, or learning from past policies or programs, can improve current or future policies or programs and, thereby, lead to policy success. This requires various types of evaluations that identify and highlight different causal relationships in the system. However, the literature on...

The use of experimentation by practitioners and resource managers as a policy instrument for effective policy design under complex and dynamic conditions has been well-acknowledged both in theory and practice. For issues such as water resource management policy experimentation, especially pilot...

Distinguishing between international design failures and national implementation problems is a subject of some concern in the area of international natural resource and environmental policy such as water policy. Many observers have traced the failings of existing global governance architectures...

John Kingdon's Multiple Streams Framework (MSF) was articulated in order to better understand how issues entered into policy agendas, using the concept of a policy actors interacting in course of sequences of events occurring in what he referred to as the "problem", "policy" and "politics"...

Public policies are the result of efforts made by governments to alter aspects of behaviour -- both that of their own agents and of society at large -- in order to carry out some end or purpose. They are comprised of complex arrangements of policy goals and policy means matched through some...

Governmental use of consultancy services has long been a concern for scholars of public administration, management and political science. Empirical studies of policy-related consulting are scarce, however, with little quantitative data. This is true of the largest and most archetypal case of...