austerity policy provides a meagre contribution to the expansion of services and the increase in government spending …This article uses strategy metaphors consisting of a plan, a home and a game to study government programme formation in … Finland. The strategy approach both contradicts and complements the traditional political science approach to government …

This paper explores the link between trust in government, policy-making, and compliance. It focuses on a specific … reduces the government's cost of implementing a policy and may also increase the set of feasible policies. Thus, state … channel whereby citizens who are convinced that a policy is worthwhile are more motivated to comply with it. This in turn …