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The lessons of learning: Reconciling theories of policy learning and policy change
- C. Bennett, M. Howlett
- Sociology
- 1 August 1992
Several different explanations of policy change based on notions of learning have emerged in the policy literature to challenge conventional conflict-oriented theories. These include notions of… Expand
Policy analytical capacity and evidence-based policy-making: Lessons from Canada
- M. Howlett
- Political Science
- 1 June 2009
Abstract: Evidence-based policy-making represents a contemporary effort to reform or re-structure policy processes in order to prioritize evidentiary or data-based decision-making. Like earlier… Expand
Managing the “hollow state”: procedural policy instruments and modern governance
- M. Howlett
- Political Science
- 1 December 2000
Abstract: Modem governments face a paradox in that, theoretically, their bureaucratic capacity for action in terms of knowledge, expertise, budgets and personnel resources is high, while, at the same… Expand
Implementing transition management as policy reforms: a case study of the Dutch energy sector
- F. Kern, M. Howlett
- Economics
- 14 August 2009
Proposals to alter large-scale socio-technical systems through government actions in order to promote goals such as sustainability are highly uncertain policy projects. What is being proposed is the… Expand
The Dependent Variable Problem in the Study of Policy Change: Understanding Policy Change as a Methodological Problem
- M. Howlett, B. Cashore
- Economics
- 1 March 2009
Abstract The new orthodoxy in studies of policy dynamics is that policy change occurs through a homeostatic process. “Perturbations” occurring outside of an institutionalized policy subsystem, often… Expand
From the ‘old’ to the ‘new’ policy design: design thinking beyond markets and collaborative governance
- M. Howlett
- Sociology, Political Science
- 28 May 2014
Abstract
Policy design as a field of inquiry in policy studies has had a chequered history. After a promising beginning in the 1970s and 1980s, the field languished in the 1990s and 2000s as work in… Expand
Policy Advice in Multi-Level Governance Systems: Sub-National Policy Analysts and Analysis
- M. Howlett
- Economics
- 1 January 2009
Despite the existence of a large body of literature on policy analysis, empirical studies of the work of policy analysts are rare, and in the case of analysts working at the sub-national level in… Expand
Introduction: Understanding integrated policy strategies and their evolution
- J. Rayner, M. Howlett
- Economics
- 1 July 2009
Abstract Much attention in recent years has been focused on the idea of replacing patchworks of public policies in specific issue areas with more coordinated or ‘integrated’ policy strategies (IS).… Expand
Policy Instruments, Policy Styles, and Policy Implementation
- M. Howlett
- Political Science
- 1 March 1991
Canadian Natural Resource and Environmental Policy: Political Economy and Public Policy
- M. Hessing, M. Howlett
- Political Science, Economics
- 1 July 1997
Figures and Tables Preface Acknowledgments Part 1: Introduction 1 Canadian Natural Resource and Environmental Policy: Issues and Approaches Part 2: The Context(s) of Canadian Natural Resource and… Expand