All Stories

  1. We’re all in this together: a rejoinder to Masud Husain’s (rant) editorial
  2. Crisis management across Europe
  3. Taskforces: a cure for all ills? Policy advisory systems in times of polycrises
  4. What determines effectiveness in the policy process?
  5. Classical institutional theories and institutional change
  6. Networks and perception in European policymaking
  7. Introduction: the notion of policy implementation and why it is important
  8. Member state implementation in Switzerland
  9. Understanding street-level managers’ compliance: a comparative study of policy implementation in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Israel
  10. Come together: Does network management make a difference for collaborative implementation performance in the context of sudden policy growth?
  11. How do street‐level organisations adapt to a new policy framework? Evidence from a Swiss canton
  12. Discourses and bottom‐up policymaking in Europe and the EU
  13. The local tackling of global issues: a governance paradox in federal states
  14. Multilevel interdependencies and policy capacity in Europe
  15. Blame‐avoidance and fragmented crisis management during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Switzerland
  16. Relevance of evaluation findings in direct democracy decisions
  17. Energy efficiency, housing, and economic policy
  18. Blood, sweat, and cannabis: real-world policy evaluation of controversial issues
  19. The non-use of evidence in the adoption of a sugar-sweetened beverage tax in OECD countries
  20. Public agency resilience in times of democratic backsliding: Structure, collaboration and professional standards
  21. Political framing, actors, and effects of global issues
  22. Evidence-Based Policy
  23. Political challengers and norm erosion in advanced democracies
  24. Complexities of policy design, institutional change, and multilevel governance
  25. How to Manage Organizational Reputation when Under Attack: Learnings from the Child and Adult Protection Authorities
  26. Switzerland: the politics of PA in a multi-party semi-direct consensus democracy
  27. The politics of policy implementation: a reassessment in more conflictual times
  28. The politics of public administration
  29. The politics of the politics-administration dichotomy
  30. Muting Science: Input Overload Versus Scientific Advice in Swiss Policy Making During the Covid‐19 Pandemic
  31. Policy’s role in democratic conflict management
  32. Blame avoidance in hard times: complex governance structures and the COVID-19 pandemic
  33. Evidence-Based Policymaking in Times of Acute Crisis: Comparing the Use of Scientific Knowledge in Germany, Switzerland, and Italy
  34. The polity of implementation: Organizational and institutional arrangements in policy implementation
  35. Does voluntary cooperation in member state implementation require top‐down steering? The case of regional policy in Switzerland
  36. National policymaking between influences of the European Union and the economy
  37. The Iterative Process of Legitimacy-Building in Hybrid Organizations
  38. Political conflicts and surprising policy outcomes in times of crisis
  39. The Role of Trust in the Participatory Establishment of Protected Areas—Lessons Learnt from a Failed National Park Project in Switzerland
  40. Sanctuary Cities in Europe? A Policy Survey of Urban Policies in Support of Irregular Migrants
  41. The Institutionalization of Evaluation in Europe, ReinhardStockmann, WolfgangMeyer, and LenaTaube (Eds.), Palgrave MacMillan, Cham, Switzerland, 2020. 526 pp. $149.99 (cloth)
  42. Learning, policy instruments and networks in EU policy‐making—Trends in European policy analysis
  43. Can Teachers’ Discretion Enhance the Role of Professionalism in Times of Crisis? A Comparative Policy Analysis of Distance Teaching in Italy and Switzerland during the COVID-19 Pandemic
  44. Politikevaluation
  45. How (not) to design and implement a large-scale, interdisciplinary research infrastructure
  46. Six Recommendations to Build Legitimacy for Translational Research Organizations
  47. Switzerland's COVID‐19 policy response: Consociational crisis management and neo‐corporatist reopening
  48. Erzählungen des Kindes‐ und Erwachsenenschutzes: Eine Anwendung und Erweiterung des Narrative Policy Frameworks
  49. Utilization-focused scientific policy advice: a six-point checklist
  50. Senkt New Public Management die Verwaltungsausgaben in den Schweizer Kantonen? Eine empirische Analyse über zwei Dekaden
  51. Problem‐Solving Capacity in Multilevel Settings
  52. EU referendums in context: What can we learn from the Swiss case?
  53. Policy evaluation and democracy: Do they fit?
  54. Mapping the mix: Linking instruments, settings and target groups in the study of policy mixes
  55. Vertical Epistemic Communities in Multilevel Governance
  56. How to organize secondary capital city regions: Institutional drivers of locational policy coordination
  57. Aristotelian framing: logos, ethos, pathos and the use of evidence in policy frames
  58. Blame, Reputation, and Organizational Responses to a Politicized Climate
  59. Public acceptance of incentive-based spatial planning policies: A framing experiment
  60. The Political Use of Evidence and Its Contribution to Democratic Discourse
  61. The Making of the Informed Voter
  62. A Transatlantic History of Public Administration
  63. Verkehrs- und Infrastrukturpolitik
  64. Infrastructure Policy Between Regional Interests and Societal Goals
  65. The Political Economy of Capital Cities
  66. Policy evaluation and democracy: Do they fit?
  67. Serving many masters: Public accountability in private policy implementation
  68. Moving beyond legal compliance: innovative approaches to EU multilevel implementation
  69. Toward a better understanding of implementation performance in the EU multilevel system
  70. Verkehrs- und Infrastrukturpolitik
  71. Betterment, Undermining, Support and Distortion
  72. Are Some Countries More Prone to Pressure Evaluators Than Others?
  73. How Do Credit Rating Agencies Rate?
  74. Multiple streams in member state implementation
  75. Efficacy of an Internet-based, individually tailored smoking cessation program
  76. Anticipatory and reactive forms of blame avoidance: Of foxes and lions
  77. Bern's positioning strategies: Escaping the fate of a secondary capital city?
  78. The politics of external approval: Explaining the IMF's evaluation of austerity programmes
  79. The European Public Servant: A Shared Administrative Identity?
  80. Capital city dynamics: Linking regional innovation systems, locational policies and policy regimes
  81. Capital city dynamics: Linking regional innovation systems, locational policies and policy regimes
  82. Editorial Introduction to the Second Issue of European Policy Analysis
  83. Die politikwissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit Verkehrspolitik: Eine Einführung
  84. Pfadabhängigkeit in der Mehrebenensteuerung: Das Beispiel Palliative Care
  85. Editorial Introduction to the Second Issue of European Policy Analysis
  86. Editorial Introduction to the First Issue of European Policy Analysis
  87. Addressing Multilevel Program Complexity by Evaluation Design
  88. Can a policy program influence policy change? The case of the Swiss EnergieSchweiz program
  89. Avoiding Blame-A Comprehensive Framework and the Australian Home Insulation Program Fiasco
  90. Confronting Theories of European Integration: A Comparative Congruence Analysis of Veterinary Drug Regulations in Five Countries
  91. Symposium Prelude to Public Administration: Essential Early German and Dutch Thinking on Administration
  92. Die politikwissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung mit Verkehrspolitik: Eine Einführung
  93. Street-level Bureaucrats and New Modes of Governance: How conflicting roles affect the implementation of the Swiss Ordinance on Veterinary Medicinal Products
  94. Policy analysis in the German-speaking countries
  95. Types of knowledge utilization of regulatory impact assessments: Evidence from Swiss policymaking
  96. Die Ausgaben der Schweizer Kantone – eine Fuzzy Set QCA
  97. Sorting through the garbage can: under what conditions do governments adopt policy programs?
  98. The diversity of activation markets in Europe
  99. Die argumentative Logik der Tabakmandate des Alten Bern: Eine historische Policy-Analyse
  100. HOW TRADITIONAL ARE THE AMERICAN, FRENCH AND GERMAN TRADITIONS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION? A RESEARCH AGENDA
  101. Dealing With Complex Causality in Realist Synthesis
  102. The limited scope of policy appraisal in the context of referendum democracy - the case of regulatory impact assessment in Switzerland
  103. Switzerland in Europe
  104. Marketization in a Federal System: New Modes of Governance in Unemployment Insurance and Social Assistance in Switzerland
  105. Institutional preconditions for the collective capacity to act in urban areas: a QCA of seventeen European case studies
  106. Utilization-focused performance reporting
  107. OUTCOME-BASED PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND THE BALANCE OF POWERS IN THE CONTEXT OF DIRECT DEMOCRACY
  108. Weber, Wilson, and Hegel: Theories of Modern Bureaucracy
  109. Governance and Coercion
  110. Referendums and Representative Democracy
  111. Die Evaluation institutioneller Politik in der Schweiz
  112. Amarrer le développement urbain aux infrastructures de transport publics. Examen comparatif des politiques locales de quatre agglomérations suisses
  113. Rail 2000: Infrastructure Modernization in the Light of the National Transport Policy
  114. Securing the long‐term bases of the dual system: a realistic evaluation of apprenticeship marketing in Switzerland
  115. Institutionelle Bedingungen kollektiver Handlungsfähigkeit im urbanen Raum: Eine QCA von siebzehn europäischen Entscheidungsfällen
  116. HABERMAS? MODELS OF DECISIONISM, TECHNOCRACY AND PRAGMATISM IN TIMES OF GOVERNANCE: THE RELATIONSHIP OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, POLITICS AND SCIENCE IN THE ALCOHOL PREVENTION POLICIES OF THE SWISS MEMBER STATES
  117. Making transport policy work: polity, policy, politics and systematic review
  118. Realistic Evaluation and QCA
  119. The Coordination of Local Policies for Urban Development and Public Transportation in Four Swiss Cities
  120. Erfolgsfaktoren von Lehrstellenmarketing in der dualen berufsbildung: das beispiel Schweiz
  121. Policy coordination in the European metropolis: A meta-analysis
  122. Die Evaluation öffentlicher Politiken mit föderalistischen Vollzugsarrangements. Eine konzeptionelle Erweiterung des Stufenmodells und eine praktische Anwendung
  123. Metropolitan Institutions and Policy Coordination: The Integration of Land Use and Transport Policies in Swiss Urban Areas
  124. Verwaltung, Politik und Wissenschaft in der kantonalen Alkoholpr�vention
  125. Public Health, Pr�vention und F�deralismus: Erkenntnisse aus der Umsetzung des Bundesgesetzes �ber die Krankenversicherung
  126. Metropolitan Governance
  127. Institutions métropolitaines et coordination des politiques publiques : une aqqc des arrangements politico-administratifs d'articulation entre urbanisme et transports en europe
  128. Kompensationsmöglichkeiten föderaler Vollzugsdefizite. Das Beispiel der kantonalen Alkoholpräventionspolitiken
  129. “Boundary Delineation” in grenzüberschreitenden Policy-Netzwerken: Primat der “Policies” oder der “Polity”? Das Fallbeispiel des Policy-Netzwerks zur 28-Tonnen-Limite
  130. Die Koordination von Raumplanung und Verkehrspolitik in urbanen Räumen der Schweiz: Determinanten der politischen Geographie, der politischen Kultur oder der institutionellen Struktur?
  131. Föderalismusreform am Beispiel des Ständemehrs
  132. QCA as a Tool for Realistic Evaluations
  133. Governing without government
  134. Hybridity in action: Accountability dilemmas of public and for-profit food safety inspectors in Switzerland