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 …

In this paper it is shown that it matters a lot for empirical research whether policy is taken to be exogenously set or … to be endogenous. In the model investment depends on policy which depends on economically important fundamentals and is …, thus, endogenous. Conditioning on factor accumu- lation in growth regressions that also include endogenous policy variables …

Economic policy and policy reform over the last few decades has been motivated by the need to accelerate growth or … disagreement has followed consensus on the policy prescriptions that need to befollowed to achieve this purpose. Sometimes the … conventional wisdom. The present paper moves the focus from this "macro"debate to concrete issues of policy formulation and policy …