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