Michael P. Howlett

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According to Wikipedia, Michael P. Howlett is the Burnaby Mountain Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, and was Yong Pung How Chair Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He specializes in comparative policy studies with a focus on resource and environmental policy-making.

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Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems (1996) (1601)
The lessons of learning: Reconciling theories of policy learning and policy change (1992) (1086)
Governance modes, policy regimes and operational plans: A multi-level nested model of policy instrument choice and policy design (2009) (468)
Design Principles for Policy Mixes: Cohesion and Coherence in ‘New Governance Arrangements’ (2007) (455)
Policy analytical capacity and evidence-based policy-making: Lessons from Canada (2009) (418)
The Dependent Variable Problem in the Study of Policy Change: Understanding Policy Change as a Methodological Problem (2009) (364)
Implementing transition management as policy reforms: a case study of the Dutch energy sector (2009) (352)
Policy Instruments, Policy Styles, and Policy Implementation (1991) (338)
Managing the “hollow state”: procedural policy instruments and modern governance (2000) (312)
Mobilizing Policy (In)Capacity to Fight COVID-19: Understanding Variations in State Responses (2020) (278)
Punctuating Which Equilibrium? Understanding Thermostatic Policy Dynamics in Pacific Northwest Forestry (2007) (274)
Patching vs Packaging in Policy Formulation: Assessing Policy Portfolio Design (2013) (244)
From the ‘old’ to the ‘new’ policy design: design thinking beyond markets and collaborative governance (2014) (243)
The lessons of failure: learning and blame avoidance in public policy-making (2012) (220)
Designing Government: From Instruments to Governance (2005) (189)
Conceptual and empirical advances in analysing policy mixes for energy transitions (2017) (182)
Designing Public Policies: Principles and Instruments (2011) (179)
From tools to toolkits in policy design studies: The new design orientation towards policy formulation research (2015) (175)
Do Networks Matter? Linking Policy Network Structure to Policy Outcomes: Evidence from Four Canadian Policy Sectors 1990-2000 (2002) (173)
Policy formulation, governance shifts and policy influence: location and content in policy advisory systems (2012) (167)
From government to governance in forest planning? Lessons from the case of the British Columbia Great Bear Rainforest initiative (2009) (160)
Why are policy innovations rare and so often negative? Blame avoidance and problem denial in climate change policy-making (2014) (155)
The dual dynamics of policy advisory systems: The impact of externalization and politicization on policy advice (2013) (152)
Patterns of Policy Instrument Choice: Policy Styles, Policy Learning and the Privatization Experience (1993) (149)
Beyond Good and Evil in Policy Implementation: Instrument Mixes, Implementation Styles, and Second Generation Theories of Policy Instrument Choice (2004) (147)
Introduction: Understanding integrated policy strategies and their evolution (2009) (147)
Policy Subsystem Configurations and Policy Change: Operationalizing the Postpositivist Analysis of the Politics of the Policy process (1998) (144)
Achilles' heels of governance: Critical capacity deficits and their role in governance failures: The Achilles heel of governance (2016) (143)
Achilles' heels of governance: Critical capacity deficits and their role in governance failures: The Achilles heel of governance (2016) (143)
Predictable and Unpredictable Policy Windows: Institutional and Exogenous Correlates of Canadian Federal Agenda-Setting (1998) (137)
The Role and Impact of the Multiple-Streams Approach in Comparative Policy Analysis (2016) (137)
Streams and stages: Reconciling Kingdon and policy process theory (2015) (136)
Policy mixes for sustainability transitions: New approaches and insights through bridging innovation and policy studies (2019) (136)
Understanding the historical turn in the policy sciences: A critique of stochastic, narrative, path dependency and process-sequencing models of policy-making over time (2006) (135)
The parameters of policy portfolios: verticality and horizontality in design spaces and their consequences for policy mix formulation (2015) (131)
Tales From the Crypt (2013) (130)
Policy analysis and policy work in federal systems: Policy advice and its contribution to evidence-based policy-making in multi-level governance systems (2010) (127)
Process Sequencing Policy Dynamics: Beyond Homeostasis and Path Dependency (2009) (125)
Canadian Natural Resource and Environmental Policy: Political Economy and Public Policy (1997) (121)
The Policy Effects of Internationalization: A Subsystem Adjustment Analysis of Policy Change (2002) (120)
Policy Analysts in the Bureaucracy Revisited: The Nature of Professional Policy Work in Contemporary Government (2011) (109)
How Solutions Chase Problems: Instrument Constituencies in the Policy Process (2016) (108)
The Knowns and Unknowns of Policy Instrument Analysis: Policy Tools and the Current Research Agenda on Policy Mixes (2020) (108)
Policy Analysis and Governance: Analytical and Policy Styles in Canada (2004) (107)
Beyond Legalism? Policy Ideas, Implementation Styles and Emulation-Based Convergence in Canadian and U.S. Environmental Policy (2000) (104)
Introduction: The Determinants of Policy Change: Advancing the Debate (2009) (102)
The Public Policy Primer: Managing the Policy Process (2010) (101)
Policy Design and Non-Design: Towards a Spectrum of Policy Formulation Types (2014) (101)
Policy analytical capacity: The supply and demand for policy analysis in government (2015) (98)
Opening up the black box of adaptation decision-making (2015) (97)
Routledge Handbook of Public Policy (2012) (92)
Policy Integration and Multi-Level Governance: Dealing with the Vertical Dimension of Policy Mix Designs (2017) (92)
The two orders of governance failure: Design mismatches and policy capacity issues in modern governance (2014) (89)
Introduction: time, temporality and timescapes in administration and policy (2014) (87)
Globalization and Governance Capacity: Explaining Divergence in National Forest Programs as Instances of "Next-Generation" Regulation in Canada and Europe (2006) (82)
Bringing Governments Back in: Governance and Governing in Comparative Policy Analysis (2015) (82)
Understanding co-production as a new public governance tool (2018) (82)
Moving policy implementation theory forward: A multiple streams/critical juncture approach (2019) (78)
Causal logics and mechanisms in policy design: How and why adopting a mechanistic perspective can improve policy design (2019) (76)
Beyond the 'Tinbergen Rule' in Policy Design: Matching Tools and Goals in Policy Portfolios (2013) (76)
Convergence and Divergence in ‘New Governance’ Arrangements: Evidence from European Integrated Natural Resource Strategies (2006) (74)
Moving Policy Theory Forward: Connecting Multiple Stream and Advocacy Coalition Frameworks to Policy Cycle Models of Analysis (2017) (74)
Understanding the persistence of policy failures: The role of politics, governance and uncertainty (2015) (74)
Comparative Climate Change Governance: Lessons from European Transnational Municipal Network Management Efforts (2013) (72)
Policy Analytical Capacity in Changing Governance Contexts: A Structural Equation Model (SEM) Study of Contemporary Canadian Policy Work (2011) (70)
Privileging the sub-sector: critical sub-sectors and sectoral relationships in forest policy-making (2001) (69)
Designing Public Policies (2019) (69)
Designing for Policy Effectiveness : Defining and Understanding a Concept (2018) (68)
Policy myopia as a source of policy failure: adaptation and policy learning under deep uncertainty (2017) (67)
Government Communication as a Policy Tool: A Framework for Analysis (2009) (66)
Issue-Attention and Punctuated Equilibria Models Reconsidered: An Empirical Examination of the Dynamics of Agenda-Setting in Canada (1997) (66)
Canadian forest policy : adapting to change (2001) (64)
Policy Advice in Multi-Level Governance Systems: Sub-National Policy Analysts and Analysis (2009) (62)
Who Is a Stream? Epistemic Communities, Instrument Constituencies and Advocacy Coalitions in Public Policy-Making (2015) (61)
Public Managers as the Missing Variable in Policy Studies: An Empirical Investigation Using Canadian Data (2011) (60)
Charles Lindblom is alive and well and living in punctuated equilibrium land (2011) (59)
Weaving the Fabric of Public Policies: Comparing and Integrating Contemporary Frameworks for the Study of Policy Processes (2016) (59)
DO ideas matter? Policy network configurations and resistance to policy change in the Canadian forest sector (1995) (58)
Assessing Instrument Mixes through Program- and Agency-Level Data: Methodological Issues in Contemporary Implementation Research (2006) (58)
The Elements of Effective Program Design: A Two-Level Analysis (2014) (57)
Matching policy tools and their targets: beyond nudges and utility maximisation in policy design (2017) (56)
(Not so) “Smart regulation”? Canadian shellfish aquaculture policy and the evolution of instrument choice for industrial development (2004) (54)
Conclusion: Governance arrangements and policy capacity for policy integration (2009) (53)
Re-Visiting the New Orthodoxy of Policy Dynamics: The Dependent Variable and Re-Aggregation Problems in the Study of Policy Change (2007) (52)
Policy Capacity and Governance (2018) (50)
The Neglect of Governance in Forest Sector Vulnerability Assessments: Structural-Functionalism and “Black Box” Problems in Climate Change Adaptation Planning (2013) (50)
The criteria for effective policy design: character and context in policy instrument choice (2018) (50)
Administrative styles and the Iimits of administrative reform: A neo‐institutional analysis of administrative cuIture (2003) (49)
Understanding Co-Production as a Policy Tool: Integrating New Public Governance and Comparative Policy Theory (2017) (49)
Policy Analysis in Canada (2007) (49)
Understanding the pre-conditions of commons governance: The role of network management (2014) (48)
Policy learning and policy networks in theory and practice: the role of policy brokers in the Indonesian biodiesel policy network (2017) (47)
Introduction to the Special Issue: “Conceptualizing Effective Social Policy Design: Design Spaces and Capacity Challenges” (2017) (47)
Third Generation Policy Diffusion Studies and the Analysis of Policy Mixes: Two Steps Forward and One Step Back? (2008) (46)
Searching for Substance: Externalization, Politicization and the Work of Canadian Policy Consultants 2006-2013 (2013) (46)
Procedural Policy Tools and the Temporal Dimensions of Policy Design (2019) (44)
Executive styles in Canada : cabinet structures and leadership practices in Canadian government (2005) (44)
The distribution of analytical techniques in policy advisory systems: Policy formulation and the tools of policy appraisal (2014) (44)
Designing for robustness: surprise, agility and improvisation in policy design (2018) (44)
From robustness to resilience: avoiding policy traps in the long term (2016) (43)
The politics of policy anomalies: bricolage and the hermeneutics of paradigms (2014) (43)
The Achilles Heel of Governance: Critical Capacity Deficits and Their Role in Governance Failures (2014) (42)
1. Policy Analysis in Canada: The State of the Art (2007) (41)
Professional policy work in federal states: Institutional autonomy and Canadian policy analysis (2012) (41)
The Political Economy of Canada: An Introduction (1992) (40)
Policy Paradigms and Policy Change (1994) (40)
Public Managers in the Policy Process: More Evidence on the Missing Variable? (2012) (40)
Policy Capacity and Governance Assessing Governmental Competences and Capabilities in Theory and Practice (2018) (40)
Conceptualizing Public Policy (2014) (38)
Meaning and power in the design and development of policy experiments (2016) (38)
Chapter 2. The Business and Government Nexus: Principal Elements and Dynamics of the Canadian Forest Policy Regime (2001) (37)
Policy Studies in Canada: The State of the Art (1997) (37)
The Policy Design Primer (2019) (37)
A Profile of B.C. Provincial Policy Analysts: Troubleshooters or Planners? (2009) (37)
Instrument constituencies and public policy-making: an introduction (2018) (36)
Assessing the Regulatory Challenges of Emerging Disruptive Technologies (2021) (36)
Transnational learning, policy analytical capacity, and environmental policy convergence: Survey results from Canada (2011) (35)
Policy Paradigms in Theory and Practice (2015) (35)
INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS AND THEIR EFFECTS ON ADMINISTRATIVE BEHAVIOR (2004) (35)
Introduction: Towards a Post-Staples State? (2007) (35)
Assessing Policy Analytical Capacity: Comparative Insights from a Study of the Canadian Environmental Policy Advice System (2010) (35)
Explaining variations in state COVID-19 responses: psychological, institutional, and strategic factors in governance and public policy-making (2020) (34)
Policy Capacity: Conceptual Framework and Essential Components (2018) (33)
7. Soft Craft, Hard Choices, Altered Context: Reflections on Twenty-Five Years of Policy Advice in Canada (2007) (33)
The permanence of temporary services: The reliance of Canadian federal departments on policy and management consultants: Policy and Management Consultants in Federal Departments (2013) (33)
Application of Federal Legislation to Alberta’s Mineable Oil Sands (2013) (32)
Routledge Handbook of Policy Design (2018) (31)
On credit and blame: disentangling the motivations of public policy decision-making behaviour (2017) (31)
Calibrating climate change policies: the causes and consequences of sustained under-reaction (2017) (31)
Policy-making and truthiness: Can existing policy models cope with politicized evidence and willful ignorance in a “post-fact” world? (2018) (31)
22. Any Ideas? Think Tanks and Policy Analysis in Canada (2007) (30)
10. Policy Analysis in Provincial Governments in Canada: From PPBS to Network Management (2007) (29)
European and North American Policy Change : Drivers and Dynamics (2009) (29)
Who learns what in sustainability transitions? (2020) (29)
Analyzing Multi-Actor, Multi-Round Public Policy Decision-Making Processes in Government: Findings from Five Canadian Cases (2007) (29)
“Measuring the Mix” of Policy Responses to COVID-19: Comparative Policy Analysis Using Topic Modelling (2021) (28)
Policy paradigms in theory and practice : discourses, ideas and anomalies in public policy dynamics (2015) (27)
Alberta's oil sands reclamation policy trajectory: the role of tense layering, policy stretching, and policy patching in long-term policy dynamics (2016) (26)
Policy Mixes and their Alignment over Time: Patching and stretching in the oil sands reclamation regime in Alberta, Canada (2017) (26)
Assessing Policy Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation: Governance Arrangements, Resource Deployments, and Analytical Skills in Canadian Infrastructure Policy Making (2013) (26)
Deregulation and its discontents : rewriting the rules in Asia (2006) (25)
Making the invisible public service visible? Exploring data on the supply of policy and management consultancies in Canada (2014) (25)
Where is the policy? A bibliometric analysis of the state of policy research on medical tourism (2020) (25)
The Provincial state in Canada : politics in the Provinces and territories (2001) (24)
Making Policies Work (2019) (24)
A dialética da opinião pública: efeitos recíprocos da política pública e da opinião pública em sociedades democráticas contemporâneas (2000) (24)
4. Beyond Formal Policy Analysis: Governance Context, Analytical Styles, and the Policy Analysis Movement in Canada (2007) (24)
Overcoming the challenges to integration: embracing complexity in forest policy design through multi-level governance. (2010) (24)
Policy instruments used by States seeking to improve school food environments. (2012) (24)
Policy Consulting in the USA: New Evidence from the Federal Procurement Data System - Next Generation (2016) (23)
The use of indicators in environmental policy appraisal: lessons from the design and evolution of water security policy measures (2017) (23)
Policy capacity and the ability to adapt to climate change: Canadian and U.S. case studies. (2013) (23)
Handbook of Policy Formulation (2017) (22)
5. Policy Analysis and Bureaucratic Capacity: Context, Competencies, and Strategies (2007) (22)
The policy-making process (2012) (22)
Challenges in applying design thinking to public policy: dealing with the varieties of policy formulation and their vicissitudes (2020) (22)
18. Business Associations and Policy Analysis in Canada (2007) (22)
Assessing contract policy work: overseeing Canadian policy consultants (2014) (21)
Interference in free thyroxine immunoassay. (2008) (21)
Varieties of governance (2015) (21)
Globalization and the Choice of Governing Instruments: The Direct, Indirect, and Opportunity Effects of Internationalization (2006) (21)
Environmental Research Organizations and Climate Change Policy Analytical Capacity: An Assessment of the Canadian Case (2010) (21)
The Judicialization of Canadian Environmental Policy, 1980–1990: A Test of the Canada-United States Convergence Thesis (1994) (20)
Measuring Individual-Level Analytical, Managerial and Political Policy Capacity: A Survey Instrument (2016) (20)
Policy work and capacities in a developing country: evidence from the Philippines (2018) (20)
Beyond the black box: Forest sector vulnerability assessments and adaptation to climate change in (2013) (20)
Scaling up of Policy Experiments and Pilots: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Lessons for the Water Sector (2015) (19)
Instrument constituencies and transnational policy diffusion: the case of conditional cash transfers (2018) (19)
Patching vs Packaging in Policy Formulation: Complementary Effects, Goodness of Fit, Degrees of Freedom, and Feasibility in Policy Portfolio Design (2013) (19)
The Contribution of Comparative Policy Analysis to Policy Design: Articulating Principles of Effectiveness and Clarifying Design Spaces (2018) (19)
Designing policy resilience: lessons from the Affordable Care Act (2020) (19)
20. Policy Analysis and the Voluntary Sector: Evolving Policy Styles (2007) (19)
Why and how does the regulation of emerging technologies occur? Explaining the adoption of the EU General Data Protection Regulation using the multiple streams framework (2021) (19)
Subsystem Structures, Shifting Mandates and Policy Capacity: Assessing Canada’s Ability to Adapt to Climate Change (2012) (18)
Varieties of collaboration in public service delivery (2018) (17)
An Asian perspective on policy instruments: policy styles, governance modes and critical capacity challenges (2016) (17)
Caught in a Staples Vise: The Political Economy of Canadian Aquaculture (2007) (17)
8. In Between Trends: Developments of Public Policy Analysis and Policy Analysis Instruction in Canada, the United States, and the European Union (2007) (17)
Re-thinking the coronavirus pandemic as a policy punctuation: COVID-19 as a path-clearing policy accelerator (2022) (17)
Understanding National Administrative Styles and Their Impact Upon Administrative Reform: A Neo-Institutional Model and Analysis (2002) (17)
Rethinking Governance Capacity As Organizational and Systemic Resources (2016) (17)
Guia de Políticas Públicas: Gerenciando processos (2014) (17)
Policy design: From tools to patches (2017) (17)
Procedural policy tools in theory and practice (2021) (17)
Policy formulation: where knowledge meets power in the policy process (2017) (17)
Duplicative or Complementary? The Relationship between Policy Consulting and Internal Policy Analysis in Canadian Government (2014) (16)
Greening the state? The framing of sustainability in Dutch infrastructure governance (2016) (16)
Environmental Organizations and Climate Change Policy Capacity: An Assessment of the Canadian Case (2010) (16)
Comparing policy advisory systems beyond the OECD: models, dynamics and the second-generation research agenda (2019) (16)
17. Policy Study and Development in Canada’s Political Parties (2007) (16)
Who coupled which stream(s)? Policy entrepreneurship and innovation in the energy–water nexus in Gujarat, India (2020) (16)
3. The Choice of Formal Policy Analysis Methods in Canada (2007) (15)
Lessons Learned and Not Learned: Bibliometric Analysis of Policy Learning (2018) (15)
Government communication and democratic governance: Electoral and policy-related information campaigns in Canada (2010) (15)
The cost of the illness that defies. (1995) (15)
Constructing the Environmental Spectacle: Green Advertisements and the Greening of the Corporate Image, 1910–1990 (1992) (15)
11. Immature Policy Analysis: Building Capacity in Eight Major Canadian Cities (2007) (15)
Long-term policy impacts of the coronavirus: normalization, adaptation, and acceleration in the post-COVID state (2022) (15)
Policy Analytical Capacity as a Source of Policy Failure (2007) (15)
Innovation Systems in a Global Context: The North American Experience (1998) (14)
Framework or metaphor? Analysing the status of policy learning in the policy sciences (2018) (14)
Market solutions for native poverty: Social policy for the third solitude (1995) (14)
Structural-functionalism redux: adaptation to climate change and the challenge of a science-driven policy agenda (2017) (14)
Re-thinking Governance in Public Policy: Dynamics, Strategy and Capacities (2015) (14)
Unpacking policy portfolios: primary and secondary aspects of tool use in policy mixes (2021) (13)
Routledge Handbook of Comparative Policy Analysis (2017) (13)
Reflections on Our Understanding of Policy Paradigms and Policy Change (2015) (13)
“Push” dynamics in policy experimentation: Downscaling climate change adaptation programs in Canada (2016) (13)
Policy tools and their role in policy formulation: dealing with procedural and substantive instruments (2017) (13)
Sustaining the Forests of the Pacific Coast: Forging Truces in the War in the Woods (2002) (13)
After “the Regulatory Moment” in Comparative Regulatory Studies: Modeling the Early Stages of Regulatory Life Cycles (2013) (13)
10. The Role of Policy Consultants: “Consultocracy” or Business as Usual (2017) (13)
Dealing with the Dark Side of Policy-Making: Managing Behavioural Risk and Volatility in Policy Designs (2020) (13)
Policy Capacity for Policy Integration: Implications for the Sustainable Development Goals (2018) (13)
Introduction to Special Issue on Canada's Staples Industries (2007) (13)
Policy work in Canada: Professional practices and analytical capacities in Canada’s policy advisory system (2017) (12)
Assisted tree migration in North America: policy legacies, enhanced forest policy integration and climate change adaptation (2017) (12)
COMPARATIVE NETWORKS AND CLUSTERS IN THE WINE INDUSTRY (2010) (12)
Varieties of governance : dynamics, strategies, capacities (2015) (12)
Ecosystem Service Valuation, Market-Based Instruments, and Sustainable Forest Management: A Primer (2010) (12)
The north-south policy divide in transnational healthcare: a comparative review of policy research on medical tourism in source and destination countries (2020) (12)
From Paper Trails to DNA Barcodes: Enhancing Traceability in Forest and Fishery Certification (2012) (12)
Canadian Public Policy: Selected Studies in Process and Style (2013) (11)
Policy Work in Multi-Level States: Institutional Autonomy and Task Allocation among Canadian Policy Analysts (2012) (11)
Implementing Integrated Land Management in Western Canada: Policy Reform and the Resilience of Clientelism (2009) (11)
Policy Styles and Policy-Making (2018) (11)
Chapter 3. The International-Domestic Nexus: The Effects of International Trade and Environmental Politics on the Canadian Forest Sector (2001) (11)
The National Forest Strategy in comparative perspective (2007) (11)
Technology and Instrument Constituencies as Agents of Innovation: Sustainability Transitions and the Governance of Urban Transport (2018) (11)
Chapter 9. Quebec: Consolidation and the Movement towards Sustainability (2001) (11)
The Permanence of Temporary Services: The Reliance of Canadian Federal Departments on Policy & Management Consultants (2013) (10)
Disentangling the mechanistic chain for better policy design (2019) (10)
The Old Reality and the New Reality: Party Politics and Public Policy in British Columbia 1941-1987 (1988) (10)
The Politics of Constitutional Change in a Federal System: Negotiating Section 92A of the Canadian Constitution Act (1982) (1991) (10)
Policy-Makers, Policy-Takers and Policy Tools: Dealing with Behaviourial Issues in Policy Design (2020) (10)
How Big Is a Policy Network? An Assessment Utilizing Data From Canadian Royal Commissions 1970–2000 (2006) (10)
Comment on “Barriers to enhanced and integrated climate change adaptation and mitigation in Canadian forest management” (2018) (10)
Enhanced Policy Analytical Capacity as a Prerequisite for Effective Evidence- Based Policy-Making: Theory, Concepts and Lessons from the Canadian Case (2008) (10)
Paradigm Construction and the Politics of Policy Anomalies (2015) (10)
Policy Learning, Policy Failure, and the Mitigation of Policy Risks: Re-Thinking the Lessons of Policy Success and Failure (2021) (10)
Diffusion of CCTs from Latin America to Asia: the Philippine 4Ps case (2018) (10)
Second Best Governance? Governments and Governance in the Imperfect World of Health Care Delivery in China, India and Thailand in Comparative Perspective (2015) (10)
The Provincial state : politics in Canada's provinces and territories (1992) (10)
Dynamics of global financial governance: Constraints, opportunities, and capacities in Asia (2016) (10)
Thirty years of research on policy instruments (2018) (10)
Chapter 6. The Executive Administrative Style in Prince Edward Island: Managerial and Spoils Politics (2005) (9)
COFOG (Classification of the Functions of Government) (2019) (9)
Deregulation and its Discontents (2006) (9)
Explaining dynamics without change: a critical subsector approach to financial policy making (2015) (9)
Reconciling Streams and Stages:Avoiding Mixed Metaphors in the Characterization of Policy Processes (2013) (9)
Re-Visiting Meltsner: Policy Advice Systems and the Multi-Dimensional Nature of Professional Policy Analysis (2009) (9)
2. The Policy Analysis Profession in Canada (2007) (8)
Regulation and time: temporal patterns in regulatory development (2014) (8)
Avoiding a Panglossian Policy Science: The Need to Deal with the Darkside of Policy-Maker and Policy-Taker Behaviour (2021) (8)
Designing for policy effectiveness (2018) (8)
Policy Divergence as a Response to Weak International Regimes: The Formulation and Implementation of Natural Resource New Governance Arrangements in Europe and Canada (2005) (8)
Collaboration in Public Service Delivery (2019) (8)
Rejoinder to Stuart Soroka, “Policy Agenda-Setting Theory Revisited: A Critique of Howlett on Downs, Baumgartner and Jones, and Kingdon” (1999) (8)
A Modern Guide to Public Policy (2020) (8)
Patching vs Packaging: Complementary Effects, Goodness of Fit, Degrees of Freedom and Intentionality in Policy Portfolio Design (2013) (8)
Introduction : The Importance of Policy Design: Effective Processes, Tools and Outcomes (2018) (7)
From forestry to film : the changing political economy of British Columbia (2010) (7)
Managing slow onset events related to climate change: the role of public bureaucracy (2021) (7)
Policy Consultancy in Comparative Perspective (2019) (7)
Multi-level Governance and Place-Based Policy-Making for Climate Change Adaptation: The European Experience and Lessons for British Columbia (2012) (7)
Holding out the promise of Lasswell's dream: Big data analytics in public policy research and teaching (2021) (7)
Explaining local variation in agri-food biotechnology policies: ‘green’ genomics regulation in comparative perspective (2010) (7)
Policy Work, Policy Advisory Systems and Politicization (2013) (7)
Policy Learning and Policy Networks in Theory and Practice: The Case of Indonesian Biodiesel Policy Network (2010) (7)
Local Government Entrepreneurship and Global Competitiveness: A Case Study of Yiwu Market in China (2016) (7)
Policy styles (2018) (7)
From National Lockdowns to Herd Immunity: Understanding the Spectrum of Government Responses to COVID-19 (2019-2021) (2021) (6)
Policy formulation, policy advice and policy appraisal: the distribution of analytical tools (2015) (6)
The Multidimensional world of policy dynamics (2009) (6)
23. Academics and Public Policy: Informing Policy Analysis and Policy Making (2007) (6)
Governing international regime complexes through multi-level governance mechanisms: lessons from water, forestry and migration policy (2019) (6)
Chapter 1. Modern Canadian Governance: Political-Administrative Styles and Executive Organization in Canada (2005) (6)
The central conundrums of policy formulation: ill-structured problems and uncertainty (2017) (6)
19. Policy Analysis by the Labour Movement in a Hostile Environment (2007) (6)
Charles E. Lindblom, “The Science of Muddling Through” (2015) (6)
Policy resources, capacities and capabilities (2020) (6)
Designing for Adaptation: Static and Dynamic Robustness in Policy Making (2022) (5)
Theorizing the behavioral state: Resolving the theory-practice paradox of policy sciences (2020) (5)
Collaboration in public service delivery: what, when and how (2019) (5)
Image and Substance Failures in Regional Organisations: Causes, Consequences, Learning and Change? (2016) (5)
Policy Transfer and Instrument Constituency: Explaining the Adoption of Conditional Cash Transfer in the Philippines (2019) (5)
Chapter 9 / Policy Design (2014) (5)
Dealing with the Likelihood of Failure Over the Long-Term: Adaptive Policy Design Under Uncertainty (2014) (5)
The 1987 National Forest Sector Strategy and the search for a federal role in Canadian forest policy (1989) (5)
Difusão dos PTCs da América Latina para a Ásia: o caso do programa 4Ps nas Filipinas (2018) (5)
Bringing the provinces back in: Re-evaluating the relevance of province-building to theories of Canadian federalism and multi-level governance (2015) (5)
The Policy Analytical Capacity of the Government of Quebec: Results from a Survey of Officials * (2013) (5)
Controversial science-based technology public attitude formation and regulation in comparative perspective: The state construction of policy alternatives in Asia (2011) (5)
Policy Analysis in Comparative Perspective: An Introduction (2017) (5)
The puzzles of power : an introduction to political science (1998) (5)
Making sense of the babble of policy-making: a general framework of the policy process (2020) (5)
The “Inherent Vices” of Policy Design: Uncertainty, Maliciousness, and Noncompliance (2021) (5)
Regulating next generation agri-food biotechnologies : lessons from European, North American and Asian experiences (2012) (5)
Coherence, Congruence and Consistency in Policy Mixes (2018) (4)
Commentary: the limits of responsibility (2001) (4)
Design and Scaling Up of Policy Experiments and Pilots: Lessons for the Water Sector (2014) (4)
Agenda-Setting Tools: State-Driven Agenda Activity from Government Relations to Scenario Forecasting (2014) (4)
Chapter 6. Behavioral Thresholds and Institutional Rigidities as Explanations of Punctuated Equilibrium Processes in Pacific Northwest Forest Policy Dynamics (2017) (4)
Introduction to the Special Issue on Communications, the Media and Policy in Canada (2009) (4)
Acts of Commission and Acts of Omission: Legal-Historical Research and the Intentions of Government in a Federal State (1986) (4)
Thirty Years of Instrument Research: What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going (2015) (4)
Studying Canadian Aquaculture Policy: Issues, Gaps, and Directions (2003) (4)
Classifying biotechnology-related policy, regulatory and innovation regimes: A framework for the comparative analysis of genomics policy-making (2009) (4)
The lessons of leaming: Reconciling theories of policy leaming and policy change (2005) (4)
The Contexts and Components of Policy Design (2018) (4)
Chapter 1. Introduction: Policy Regimes and Policy Change in the Canadian Forest Sector (2001) (4)
How useful is Complexity Theory to Policy Studies? Lessons from the Climate Change Adaptation Literature (2015) (4)
The evolution of Wisconsin's woody biofuel policy: Policy layering and dismantling through dilution (2020) (4)
Policy Assemblages and Policy Resilience: Lessons for Non-Design from Evolutionary Governance Theory (2021) (4)
Policy Design and Non-Design—A Continuum of Formulation Modalities (2018) (4)
The State of Policy Instrument Analysis: Knowns, Unknowns and the Current Research Agenda (2019) (4)
Dealing with the dark side of policy-making: corruption, malfeasance and the volatility of policy mixes (2020) (4)
Where is the Policy? A Bibliometric Review of the State of Policy Research on Medical Tourism (2019) (4)
The Significance of Leadership in the Evolution of Policy Styles: Reconciling Policy-Making in the Short and Long Term (2022) (3)
Assessing public services from the citizen perspective: what can we learn from surveys? (2020) (3)
Administrative clientelism and policy reform failure: the Western Canada Integrated Land Management experience 1990–2015 (2020) (3)
Behavioural considerations in public policy: matching policy tools and their targets (2019) (3)
Mining the evidence: Public comments and evidence-based policymaking in the controversial Minnesota PolyMet mining project (2020) (3)
Understanding Policy Designs Over Time (2018) (3)
Chapter 12. The West Annex: Executive Structure and Administrative Style in British Columbia (2005) (3)
Chapter 13. Conclusion: Executive Institutional Development in Canada’s Provinces (2005) (3)
The role of tool calibrations and policy specifications in policy change: evidence from healthcare reform efforts in Korea 1990-2020 (2022) (3)
Combining internal and external evaluations within a multilevel evaluation framework: Computational text analysis of lessons from the Asian Development Bank (2019) (3)
The Implementation Gap: Rhetoric and Reality in Canadian Natural Resource and Environmental Policy (2001) (3)
Chapter 10. Saskatchewan’s Executive Decision-Making Style: The Centrality of Planning (2005) (3)
Policy Instruments and Policy Design Choices (2018) (3)
Canadian Environmental Politics and Policy (2010) (3)
Chapter 5. Premierial Governance: The System of Executive Power in Nova Scotia (2005) (3)
Public policy: definitions and approaches (2020) (3)
Commentary: On the back foot — psychiatry and community care (2000) (3)
Who is a Stream? Epistemic Communities, Instrument Constituencies and Advocacy Coalitions in Multiple Streams Subsystems (2015) (3)
Post-Keynesianism in Canada in the 1990s: An Emerging Paradigm or a Hopeless Muddle? (1993) (3)
Chapter 14. Making Sense of Complexity: Advances and Gaps in Comprehending the Canadian Forest Policy Process (2001) (3)
Nudges and nodality tools: New developments in old instruments (2018) (3)
Re-Thinking Think Tanks: Differentiating Knowledge-Based Policy Influence Organizations (2021) (3)
Chapter VIII.6: Designing public participation in the policy process: a critical review of procedural instrument theory (2020) (3)
Policy Work, Policy Advisory Systems and Politicization (Editor's Note) (2013) (3)
Chapter 9. Cabinet Structure and Executive Style in Manitoba (2005) (3)
Aligning Policy Tools and Their Targets (2018) (3)
The Canadian biotechnology regulatory regime: The role of participation (2010) (3)
Improving international policy-making in the absence of treaty regimes: the international forestry, migration and water policy cases (2018) (3)
Chapter 4. Governing from the Centre in New Brunswick (2005) (2)
6. Differences in Federal and Provincial Policy Analysis (2017) (2)
The relevance of the academic study of public policy (2015) (2)
(Mis)aligning politicians and admirals: The problems of long‐term procurement in the Canadian Surface Combatant project 1994‐2021 (2022) (2)
The HSJ debate. We need additional powers of compulsion in mental health. (2005) (2)
Gauging Effectiveness (2018) (2)
Quebec: Canada’s champion in the fight against climate change (2008) (2)
Teaching Policy Analysis: Policy Styles and Their Implications for Training Policy Analysts (2004) (2)
Challenges associated with implementing climate adaptation policy (2019) (2)
Achieving regulatory excellence in the agri-food biotechnology sector: Building policy capacity (2016) (2)
The Threat of U.S. Protectionism and the U. S.–Canada Free Trade Agreement Reconsidered – The Questionable Precedent of the 1986 Softwood Lumber Case (1989) (2)
Conclusion: A research agenda for policy dynamics (2009) (2)
Time, Temporality and Timescapes in Politics and Policy (2012) (2)
Governing complex environmental policy mixes through institutional bricolage: lessons from the water-forestry-energy-climate nexus (2021) (2)
12. The Public of Public Inquiries (2007) (2)
Behavioral Science and Climate Policy (2019) (2)
(Re)Thinking think tanks in the age of policy labs: The rise of knowledge‐based policy influence organisations (2021) (2)
Communicating about Climate Change with Policymakers (2016) (2)
Policy science beyond self-congratulatory virtue signalling: matching supply and demand in the scholarship, pedagogy and purpose of the policy enterprise (2021) (2)
Policy Instrument Interactions in Policy Mixes: Surveying the Conceptual and Methodological Landscape (2021) (2)
14. Committees inside Canadian Legislatures (2007) (2)
Super‐users and hyper‐experts in the provision of policy advice: Evidence from a survey of Canadian academics (2022) (2)
Natural Capital: Using Ecosystem Service Valuation and Market-Based Instruments as Tools for Sustainable Forest Management (2010) (2)
The politics of military procurement: the F-35 purchasing process in Canada and Australia Compared (2022) (1)
The Limits of Post-Keynesianism: Lessons from the Canadian Experience: (1993) (1)
National policy styles in theory and practice (2021) (1)
Temporality and the Analysis of Policy Processes (2019) (1)
Policy Analysis and Policy Work at the Provincial and Territorial Level: Demographics and Description (2017) (1)
Pay Equity in Ontario: A Manager's Guide (1991) (1)
Policy studies in Canada (1996) (1)
Transnational policy networks and development (2021) (1)
The Hybrid Engine - Challenge between GHG-Legislation, Efficiency Targets, Product Cost and Production Boundaries (2022) (1)
The Routledge Handbook of Policy Tools (2022) (1)
Policy formulation styles (2021) (1)
Shifting Mandates and Climate Change Policy Capacity: The Canadian Infrastructure Case (2012) (1)
State-Owned Enterprises as Policy Tools (2020) (1)
What is policy design? (2019) (1)
The Supply of Policy and Management Consultancies to Canadian Federal Departments: New Evidence on Contract Size, Type and Structure (2013) (1)
The 'Lumpiness' Thesis Revisited: The Venues of Policy Work and the Distribution of Analytical Techniques in Canada (2013) (1)
Understanding the Persistence of Policy Failures: Politics, Governance and Uncertainty (2015) (1)
Managing internal policy risk: Australia, the UK and the US compared (2022) (1)
CANADA: From Strategy to NFP? (2003) (1)
Policy instruments: definitions and approaches (2020) (1)
Understanding Co-production as a Policy Tool: Merging Comparative Policy and Management Thinking (2017) (1)
Financial implementation tools (2019) (1)
Instruments and implementation styles (2021) (1)
Authoritative implementation tools (2019) (1)
From adaptive capacity to policy capacity adaptation assessments: insights from the policy sciences (2019) (1)
Structural mechanisms affecting policy subsystems activity: beyond individual and group behavioral propensities in policy design and policy change (2019) (1)
Introduction (2018) (1)
Chapter 6. Environmentallism and Environmental Actors in the Canadian Forest Sector (2001) (1)
Understanding Feasibility in Climate Change Adaptation Planning: Structural-Functionalism and the Neglect of Governance in Complex Adaptive Systems Inspired Forest Sector Vulnerability Assessments (2012) (1)
Policy Shops, Hired Guns and Gatekeepers: The Allocation of Policy Analysts in Government Agencies (2021) (1)
Policy design in the contemporary era (2019) (1)
Trends towards the externalization and politicization of policy advice in policy formulation (2017) (1)
Commentary on “Punching below its weight” (2018) (1)
Chapter 12. The British Columbia Forest Practices Code: Formalization and Its Effects (2001) (1)
Soft OR as a Response to Inherent Vices: Problem Structuring to Offset Policy Volatility (2022) (1)
Conceptualizing energy democracy using the multiple streams framework (2021) (1)
Instruments and Implementation in Public Policy and Administration (2020) (1)
What is co-creation and how does it create public value? (2022) (1)
Beyond the Individual in Controversial Science-Based Technology Attitude Formation and Regulation: The State Construction of Policy Alternatives in Asia (2010) (1)
The politics of military megaprojects: discursive struggles in Canadian and Australian naval shipbuilding strategies (2023) (1)
Over-promising and under-delivering (2018) (1)
Mental Health Services Today and Tomorrow : Pt. 1 (2008) (0)
Preface (2020) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Introduction : Managing the policy process (2017) (0)
Pol 856 Simon Fraser University Policy Design Graduate Syllabus 2017 (2017) (0)
Analyzing Multi-Actor, Multi-Round Decision-Making Processes in Government: Preliminary Findings from Five Canadian Cases (2006) (0)
Entrenched and Escalating: Policy-Relevant Consulting and Contracting in Australia, 1987–2017 (2019) (0)
Canada’s Regional Adaptation Collaboratives and adaptation platform: The importance of scaling up and scaling down climate change governance experiments (2017) (0)
Book Reviews (2005) (0)
Policy volatility and the propensity of policies to fail: dealing with uncertainty, maliciousness and compliance in public policy-making (2022) (0)
From the ‘old’ to the ‘new’ policy design: design thinking beyond markets and collaborative governance (2014) (0)
Towards an agnotology of policy studies: identifying, understanding and addressing knowledge limitations in real world policymaking (2022) (0)
Improving Global Water Governance: Dealing with Weak International Regimes through Enhanced Multi-Level Governance (2014) (0)
Trends in the management of policy volatility: managing internal policy risk in three OECD countries (2022) (0)
Services for people with severe mental illness: developments since the Clunis Report (2002) (0)
Traditional policy styles and contemporary design trends (2019) (0)
Book reviews (2001) (0)
Zito trust defends list (1997) (0)
Ottawa and the provinces (1998) (0)
Book Reviews (2005) (0)
Chapter 4. Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk: Reflections on the Early Influence of Ecosystem Management Ideas (2001) (0)
Conclusion: The De/Reregulatory Cycle: Learning and Spill-over Effects in Regulatory Policy-Making (2006) (0)
18. Policy Work System Dynamics: Implications for Practice, Pedagogy, and Scholarship (2017) (0)
Who are the policy designers and where do they work? (2019) (0)
Problems in applying Soft OR methods to climate actions: lessons from two cases of governmental use (2023) (0)
Embracing the future of the policy sciences: big data in pedagogy and practice (2021) (0)
Measuring retrenchment in welfare states: overcoming the challenges to the definition, operationalization and measurement of welfare policy change (2021) (0)
Perceived support and psychological outcome following the 2004 tsunami: a mixed-methods study (2011) (0)
Book Reviews (2006) (0)
Chapter 7. Model Forests as Process Reform: Alternative Dispute Resolution and Multistakeholder Planning (2001) (0)
Figures and Tables (2001) (0)
Introduction : Studying policy styles at the national level and beyond (2021) (0)
How to assemble and evaluate a policy design (2019) (0)
Understanding the role of policy design in contemporary policy-making (2019) (0)
Transnational Learning and Environmental Policy Advice: Theory Vs. Practice (2009) (0)
When does policy design occur? (2019) (0)
Policy advice and policy advisory systems in policy formulation (2017) (0)
Preface: Re-Thinking the Policy Sciences after the ‘Governance Turn’ – Identifying and Creating a (more) Capable State (2020) (0)
Environmental Policy and Governance : Bringing the State Back In ( Again ) ? . In : (2015) (0)
Policy-making and truthiness: Can existing policy models cope with politicized evidence and willful ignorance in a “post-fact” world? (2018) (0)
Why policy design? (2019) (0)
A Supplement (1983) (0)
How do policy designs work? (2019) (0)
Re-thinking Governance in Public Policy (2015) (0)
Assembling and evaluating an effective policy design (2019) (0)
Institutional and process dimensions of policy styles (2021) (0)
The Micro-Dimensions of Policy Design: A Key Challenge for Real-World Policy Practice (2023) (0)
Understanding the Regulatory Moment: Uncovering the Initial Stages in the Development of a Regulatory Regime (2011) (0)
Implementation style dynamics (2021) (0)
Basic concepts and vocabulary (2019) (0)
Designing policy resilience: lessons from the Affordable Care Act (2020) (0)
Swedish Government Agencies’ Hiring of Policy Consultants: A Phenomenon of Increased Magnitude and Importance? (2019) (0)
State regulation of school food environments is not enough (2012) (0)
The development of intergovernmental relations in the province of British Columbia (1984) (0)
8. Public Managers and Policy Analytical Capacity in Canada (2017) (0)
Conservation issues at the Watson Pinelands Preserve, Tyler County, Texas (2010) (0)
Preface: The Evolution of De/Reregulation (2006) (0)
Conclusion : Influencing the policy process (2017) (0)
What is Behavioral in Policy Studies? (2022) (0)
Teaching Policy Design: Themes, Topics & Techniques (2021) (0)
Organizational implementation tools (2019) (0)
Tracing How Governments Think (2014) (0)
Chapter 7. Who Governs in Quebec? Revolving Premiers and Reforms (2005) (0)
Transforming hate to love: an outcome study of the Peper Harow treatment process for adolescents. By Melvyn Rose. Routledge, London EC4P 4EE May 1997 192pp. ISBN 0-415-13831-0. ISBN 0-415-13832-9 (2001) (0)
On credit and blame: disentangling the motivations of public policy decision-making behaviour (2017) (0)
Policy analysis in Canada: an introduction (2018) (0)
Assessing policy analytical capacity in contemporary governments: New measures and metrics (2022) (0)
A Research Agenda for Policy Dynamics (2009) (0)
Policy Consultants for Substance and Process: A Review of the Supply and Demand for Canadian Policy Consulting (2019) (0)
Enhancing Policy Capacity for Better Policy Integration: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in a Post COVID-19 World (2022) (0)
Book Reviews (2004) (0)
The Art of Governance: Analyzing Management and Administration (2006) (0)
From an Agenda to the Other: Environmental Issues Dynamics in Quebec (2007) (0)
Policy shops, hired guns, and gatekeepers: The organization and distribution of policy analysts in Ontario (2022) (0)
Administrative clientelism and policy reform failure: the Western Canada Integrated Land Management experience 1990–2015 (2020) (0)
Book reviews (2004) (0)
Book Reviews (2005) (0)
Assessing the Third Generation in Policy Diffusion Studies : Two Steps Forward and One Step Back ? (2006) (0)
Governing Health Care in an Imperfect World: Hierarchy, Markets and Networks in China and Thailand (2015) (0)
Third World Quarterly Special Issue Advertizement - Development and Cultural Nationalism (2008) (0)
Book Reviews (2005) (0)
Governing Health Care in an Imperfect World (2015) (0)
Communicating policy advice to climate change policy makers (2016) (0)
Conclusion: : the capacity challenges of policy design over space and time (2019) (0)
The Retreat: an alternative perspective from the independent sector Jenny McAleese (2018) (0)
Prospects for Policy Change and Policy Stability Over the Long Term (2000) (0)
Pointing Towards Policy Success?: Water Policy Indicators in Practice (2015) (0)
Policy Learning, Evaluation, and Aid Effectiveness: Mining Lessons on Project and Program Success from the Asian Development Bank (2018) (0)
Designing Policy Resilience (2020) (0)
The design roots of policy problems: Unpacking the role of procedural tools in design fitness and resilience (2023) (0)
Information-based implementation tools (2019) (0)
The Role of Policy Capacity in Policy Success and Failure (2016) (0)
Systematically studying policy design (2019) (0)
Book Review: The Church We Believe In. By Francis A. Sullivan, S.J. New York/Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press, 1988. 241 pp. pb., $9.95 (1991) (0)
Mental Health Services Today and Tomorrow: Perspectives on policy and practice (2018) (0)
Beyond Quebec: Taking Stock of Canada Kenneth McRoberts, ed. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995, pp. x, 435 (1996) (0)
Instrument constituency and policy transfer: how a collective actor mediates the transnational movement of policy instruments (2021) (0)
The Politics of Regulation: A Comparative Perspective John Francis Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1993, pp. xi, 289 (1994) (0)
Inquiries: who needs them? (1997) (0)
Policy Instruments (2020) (0)
Editors’ introduction to the series (2020) (0)
Book Reviews (2006) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
Governance styles (2021) (0)
Canadian Political Economy: An Economic Introduction (1991) (0)
Empirical insights on national policy styles and political regimes (2018) (0)
Mental health in Europe: the wider challenge (2018) (0)
Note from the Editor: Lasswell Prize announcement for Policy Sciences Volume 54 (2021) (2022) (0)
1. The Nature of Professional Policy Work in Canada: An Introduction and Overview (2017) (0)

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