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  1. Neglected challenges to evidence-based policy-making: the problem of policy accumulation
  2. Bureaucratic influence and administrative styles in international organizations
  3. International Bureaucracy
  4. Rule growth and government effectiveness: why it takes the capacity to learn and coordinate to constrain rule growth
  5. Is Morality Policy Different? Testing Sectoral and Institutional Explanations of Policy Change
  6. Opposite Trends in the Regulation of Pornography? Policy Differentiation and Policy Convergence Across 26 Countries Between 1960 and 2010
  7. Four Styles of Regulation and their Implications for Comparative Policy Analysis
  8. Are Some Citizens More Equal than Others? Evidence from a Field Experiment
  9. Moralpolitik in Deutschland
  10. Shaping of European Education
  11. Institutional opportunity structures and the Catholic Church: explaining variation in the regulation of same-sex partnerships in Ireland and Italy
  12. Brake rather than Barrier: The Impact of the Catholic Church on Morality Policies in Western Europe
  13. Giving less by doing more? Dynamics of social policy expansion and dismantling in 18 OECD countries
  14. A Conceptual Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Policy Change: Measurement, Explanation and Strategies of Policy Dismantling
  15. Registration Fees for Same-Sex Unions, Local Party Politics and Societal Demand
  16. Public policy meets morality: conceptual and theoretical challenges in the analysis of morality policy change
  17. The study of morality policy: analytical implications from a public policy perspective
  18. Hochschulpolitische Reformen im Zuge des Bologna-Prozesses
  19. Understanding Policy Dismantling: An Analytical Framework
  20. When the Dismantling of an Ineffective Policy Becomes Increasingly Costly: Default Strategies, Arena Shifting, and Symbolic Action in German Waste Policy
  21. Environmental Policy in the EU
  22. Governance Institutions and Policy Implementation in the European Union
  23. Really a front-runner, really a Straggler? Of environmental leaders and laggards in the European Union and beyond — A quantitative policy perspective
  24. Regulatory policy outputs and impacts: Exploring a complex relationship
  25. An analytical framework for the cross-country comparison of higher education governance
  26. Is there convergence of national environmental policies? An analysis of policy outputs in 24 OECD countries
  27. Politikwandel und seine Messung in der vergleichenden Staatstätigkeitsforschung: Konzeptionelle Probleme und mögliche Alternativen
  28. Einheit von Forschung und Lehre: Implications for State Funding of Universities
  29. Do parties matter in internationalised policy areas? The impact of political parties on environmental policy outputs in 18 OECD countries, 1970-2000
  30. To what extent does transnational communication drive cross-national policy convergence? The impact of the bologna-process on domestic higher education policies
  31. Economy and Sustainability—How Economic Integration Stimulates Stringent Environmental Regulations
  32. Hierarchy, networks, or markets: how does the EU shape environmental policy adoptions within and beyond its borders?
  33. NEGLECTED FACES OF EUROPEANIZATION: THE DIFFERENTIAL IMPACT OF THE EU ON THE DISMANTLING AND EXPANSION OF DOMESTIC POLICIES
  34. Higher Education Policies in Central and Eastern Europe: Convergence toward a Common Model?
  35. Hochschulpolitik in mittel- und osteuropa: Konvergenz zu einem gemeinsamen Modell?
  36. Balancing competitiveness and conditionality: environmental policy-making in low-regulating countries
  37. Environmental Policy Convergence: The Impact of International Harmonization, Transnational Communication, and Regulatory Competition
  38. Explaining variation in organizational change: the reform of human resource management in the European Commission and the OECD
  39. Bureaucratic change in the European administrative space: The case of the European commission
  40. Analysing the differential impact of the Bologna Process: Theoretical considerations on national conditions for international policy convergence
  41. Environmental Policy Convergence in Europe
  42. Managementreformen in internationalen Organisationen: Eine vergleichende Analyse der Europäischen Kommission und des OECD-Sekretariats
  43. The Termination of Public Organizations: Theoretical Perspectives to Revitalize a Promising Research Area
  44. ‘It’s the Bureaucracy, Stupid’
  45. European Union
  46. Causes and conditions of cross-national policy convergence
  47. Introduction: Cross-national policy convergence: concepts, approaches and explanatory factors
  48. Compliance, Competition and Communication: Different Approaches of European Governance and their Impact on National Institutions
  49. Compliance, communication and competition: patterns of EU environmental policy making and their impact on policy convergence
  50. Competition and Cooperation in Environmental Policy: Individual and Interaction Effects
  51. Private governance across multiple arenas: European interest associations as interface actors
  52. Explaining Cross-National Variance in Administrative Reform: Autonomous versus Instrumental Bureaucracies
  53. European Policies: The Impact of National Administrative Traditions
  54. Is there convergence of national environmental policies? An analysis of policy outputs in 24 OECD countries
  55. Environmental Policy