Policy failures are in a sense inevitable. That is, if a policy developed to deal with a specific problem or issue is left in place long enough it is highly likely that over time the environment or problem context will shift enough that the policy will become obsolete or irrelevant and like a...

Why and how the regulation of emerging technologies occurs is not clear in the literature. In this study, we adapt the multiple streams framework – often used for explaining agenda-setting and policy adoption – to examine the phenomenon. We hypothesize how technological change affects...

A transition to sustainable energy will require not only technological diffusion and behavioral change, but also policy innovation. While research on energy transitions has generated an extensive literature, the extent to which it has used the policy innovation perspective – entailing policy...

Introduction : the importance of policy design : effective processes, tools and outcomes / Michael Howlett and Ishani Mukherjee -- The contexts and components of policy design : governance modes and policy regimes / Michael Howlett -- Designing complex policy mixes : elements, processes and...

Existing studies of policy mixes do not use consistent terminology and fail to carefully define the dependent variable of the inquiry. As a result theorization has lagged, the cumulative impact of empirical studies has not been great and understanding of the phenomena, despite many observations...