The objective of this article is to clarify the extent and the conditions under which the European Dnion (ED) induces changes in the policy arrangements of its member states. For an accurate measurement of our dependent variable, we distinguish between ED-induced policy expansion and ED-induced policy dismantling. We argue that the extent to which European requirements lead to an expansion or d...

BACKGROUND Decision-makers tend to make connections with researchers far too late in the game of public policy, expecting to find a retail store in which researchers are busy filling shop-front shelves with a comprehensive set of all possible relevant studies that a decision-maker might some day drop by to purchase. This linear type of relation between research and policy needs to be replaced b...

This paper explores the nature and type of policy transfer promoted by global health partnerships to facilitate access to medication in Cameroon and the associated implementation challenges. Using concepts from policy transfer, multi-level governance and the politics of scale, the paper conceptualizes the social spaces (global-national-local linkages) through which global health policies are ne...

A national knowledge management system consists of internal knowledge management systems of governmental agencies and various knowledge services playing a role of intermediary, catalyst, and network. A policy knowledge service plays the roles of abstracting, codifying, and diffusing knowledge in public sector. Through abstraction and codification, it maximizes the proprietary value of knowledge...

This paper explores the extent to which global health governance - in the context of the early implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals is grounded in the right to health. The essential components of the right to health in relation to global health are unpacked. Four essential functions of the global health system are assessed from a normative, rights-based, analysis on how each of t...

Risk-based governance is argued by many to hold out the promise of a more rational and efficient state, by making explicit the limitations of state interventions and focusing the finite resources on those targets where the probable damage is greatest. This paper, however, challenges the assumption that risk-based governance has the potential for universal and uniform application across develope...

The following paper explores the tensions in cluster development policy arising from the combination of different economic spaces on which cluster policies can be targeted and the different levels of governance which produce them. In seeking to enhance industrial competitiveness at different spatial scales, the contrasting strategies of national and regional/local authorities towards cluster de...

Efforts to develop extensive forest-based climate change vulnerability assessments have informed proposed management and policy options intended to promote improved on-the-ground policy outcomes. These assessments are derived from a rich vulnerability literature and are helpful in modeling complex ecosystem interactions, yet their policy relevance and impact has been limited. We argue this is d...

This paper examines the corporate governance of banks. When banks efficiently mobilize and allocate funds, this lowers the cost of capital to firms, boosts capital formation, and stimulates productivity growth. Thus, weak governance of banks reverberates throughout the economy with negative ramifications for economic development. After reviewing the major governance concepts for corporations in...

Welfare state theory has struggled to come to terms with the role of the third sector. It has often categorized welfare states in terms of the pattern of interplay between state social policies and the structure of the labour market. Moreover, it has frequently offered an exclusive focus on state policy - thereby failing to substantially recognize the role of the formally organized third sector...