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Behavioural governance in the policy process: introduction to the special issue

, 2021
Research adopting an interdisciplinary, behavioural perspective on Public Policy and Public Administration is booming. Yet there has been little integration into mainstream public policy scholarship.
Anat Gofen, A. Moseley, Eva Thomann, R. Kent Weaver   +3 more
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Balancing Trade‐Offs between Policy Responsiveness and Effectiveness: The Impact of Vertical Policy‐Process Integration on Policy Accumulation

PAR. Public Administration Review, 2020
In modern democracies, policy stocks pile up over time. In many ways policy accumulation reflects societal modernization and progress. However, if policy accumulation is not matched by corresponding expansions in administrative capacities necessary for ...
Christoph Knill, C. Steinbacher, Yves Steinebach   +2 more
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Can power be made an empirically viable concept in policy process theory? Exploring the power potential of the Narrative Policy Framework

International Review of Public Policy, 2020
Despite the range of analytical foci in current policy process theory, the idea of an empirically sound power concept has not received much attention. While scientifically oriented process frameworks tend to be either implicitly or explicitly based on a ...
Tjorven Sievers, Michael D. Jones
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Ambiguity, multiple streams, and EU policy [PDF]

, 2012
The multiple streams framework draws insight from interactions between agency and institutions to explore the impact of context, time, and meaning on policy change and to assess the institutional and issue complexities permeating the European Union (EU ...
Adrian Kay, Alpaslan C. M., Baumgartner F., Birkland T. A., Corbett A., Cram L., Crombez C., Daviter F., Kingdon J., Krause A., Mahoney J., March J., Nikolaos Zahariadis, Nowak T., Nugent N., Olsen J. P., Princen S., Robert Ackrill, Stephenson P., Winn N., Zahariadis N., Zahariadis N.   +21 more
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Creativity and the experts: New Labour, think tanks, and the policy process [PDF]

, 2009
This article explores the role of expertise in public debate on creative industries policy in the United Kingdom. The first section gives an overview of the emergence of expertise in government and the rise of think tanks, locating this within a wider ...
Schlesinger, P.
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Educational policy, policy appropriation and Grameen Bank higher education financial aid policy process [PDF]

, 2020
The paper talks about higher educational polices and their process of policy appropriations, policy as practices, policy as symbolic, policy as rituals, policy as myths, policy backward- mapping and policy-forward mapping, multi-stage policy ...
Rouf, Kazi Abdur
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Exploring the role of materials in policy change: innovation in low energy housing in the UK [PDF]

, 2007
There remains uncertainty in models of the policy process about how and when radical change takes place. Most policy authors focus on explaining incremental change, and yet in practice a pattern of change described as punctuated equilibrium has been ...
Akrich M, Barker K, Barlow J, Baumgartner F R, Boardman B, BRE, BRE, BRECSU, BRECSU, BRECSU, Coutard O, DEFRA, DETR, Dryzek J, DTI, ODPM, DEFRA, DTLR, Egan J, Elans P, Fawcett T, Geels F W, Gorgolewski M, Grant W, Griset P, Guy S, Hajer M A, Hall P, Ham C, Hansard, Heather Lovell, Hockerton Housing Project, Hughes T P, Hughes T P, James N, Kingdon J W, London Borough of Enfield, Lovell H, Malpass P, Nelson R, NHBC, Pett J, POST, Raman S, RCEP, Rip A, Ross K, Sabatier P A, Schumpeter J A, Shapin S, Smith A, Tarr J A, The Housing Corporation, The Housing Forum, The Stationery Office, True J   +53 more
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Diffusion policy: Visuomotor policy learning via action diffusion [PDF]

Robotics: Science and Systems, 2023
This paper introduces Diffusion Policy, a new way of generating robot behavior by representing a robot’s visuomotor policy as a conditional denoising diffusion process.
Cheng Chi, S. Feng, Yilun Du, Zhenjia Xu, Eric Cousineau, B. Burchfiel, Shuran Song   +6 more
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Tools to Support Public Policy Grantmaking [PDF]

, 2009
· This article provides guidance on how foundations can frame, focus, and advance efforts to achieve public policy reforms. · Five essential steps for developing public policy strategy are described: choosing the public policy goal, understanding the ...
Campbell, Martha, Coffman, Julia
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Why and how is the power of Big Tech increasing in the policy process? The case of generative AI

Policy & Society
The growing digitalization of our society has led to a meteoric rise of large technology companies (Big Tech), which have amassed tremendous wealth and influence through their ownership of digital infrastructure and platforms.
Shaleen Khanal, Hongzhou Zhang, Araz Taeihagh   +2 more
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