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From Disruption to Stabilization: A Functional Governance Perspective on the Renewable Energy Transition in Montenegro

Environmental Policy and Governance, Volume 36, Issue 2, Page 385-402, April 2026.
ABSTRACT As global climate ambitions intensify, the key challenge lies not in setting renewable energy targets but in designing governance systems that can translate them into lasting transformation. The transition management literature has advanced a valuable research agenda for initiating change through niche innovations and participatory arenas in ...
Alexander L. Q. Chen‐Florea, Igor Luksic, Bojana Boskovic   +2 more
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Opposition and resistance: Governance challenges around urban growth in China and the UK

Journal of Urban Management, 2017
This paper proposes that, different though they are, the processes of urban development in China and the UK can be analytically compared by looking at the commonly occurring opposition and resistance to that development.
John Sturzaker, Giulio Verdini
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Treating the Symptoms, Not the Causes: What's Wrong with Demos's Report The Human Handbrake: How Whitehall Culture Holds Back Public Service Reform

The Political Quarterly, Volume 97, Issue 1, Page 154-159, January/March 2026.
Abstract A litany of think tank reports has critiqued Whitehall's ability to deliver policy. The latest—by Demos—locates the roots of Britain's governance woes in Whitehall's political culture. Drawing on public policy literature, we critique this report by demonstrating that Whitehall's political culture reflects the enduring structural design of ...
Darcy Luke, NATHAN CRITCH
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Networking strategies for coordinating interdependent policy issues: A motif approach

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 53, Issue 4, Page 925-943, November 2025.
Abstract Complex societal challenges, such as climate change and environmental degradation, are encumbered by numerous interdependences across different policy issues. Coordination of interdependent policy issues is thus critical. However, coordination challenges persist, partly because coordinating interdependent policy issues among actors often ...
Johanna Hedlund, Florence Metz, Örjan Bodin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Managerialism and the Changing Politics of Inclusion

Global Policy, Volume 16, Issue 4, Page 691-697, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This contribution examines the tension between political inclusion and informal hierarchy found in the Hybrid Institutional Complex (HIC) for sustainable development. By drawing attention to the managerial logic underpinning the making of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), I highlight how increased inclusion leads to weaker obligations ...
Kavi Joseph Abraham
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Urban governance systems in autonomous territories of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy : the cases of Croatia-Slavonia and Austrian Galicia (1867-1918)

Geographia Polonica
There is still no consensus on the definition of urban governance, which can be attributed to gaps in its empirical foundation across both time and space.
Bálint Hilbert
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Boon or Bane?: The Hybrid Institutional Complex for the Sustainable Development Goals

Global Policy, Volume 16, Issue 4, Page 682-690, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This Special Section marks the tenth anniversary of the United Nations' 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Progress on the latter has been dismal, with only 17% of targets on track. The contributions to this Special Section explore the global governance of the SDGs as a Hybrid Institutional Complex (HIC): a global ...
Jack Taggart, Benjamin Faude
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Hybridity as a governmental technique for designing and delivering NAPLAN in Australian schools

Australian Journal of Public Administration, Volume 84, Issue 2, Page 362-380, June 2025.
Abstract This paper explores the utility of hybrid governance as an analytical lens for understanding policy design and delivery in Australian schooling reform. Using the National Assessment Program in Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) as a case study, we argue that its design and delivery processes exemplify hybridity in myriad dimensions.
Glenn C. Savage, David de Carvalho
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The Cultural Dimension of Metagovernance: Why Governance Doctrines May Fail

, 2010
Metagovernance, Culture, Governance styles, Hierarchical governance, Network governance, Market governance,
Louis Meuleman, Meuleman, L.
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The review and development of professional standards through the lens of Democratic Anchorage points

British Educational Research Journal, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 572-591, April 2025.
Abstract The recent review of the Scottish professional standards for teachers, led by the General Teaching Council for Scotland, offered a unique perspective to interrogate participative approaches in policy‐making in the Scottish education context and to provide insights and implications for future policy‐making. Using one of the authors’ experiences
Charlaine Simpson, Anna Beck, Louise Campbell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source