Prominent conceptualizations of policy coherence for sustainable development focus primarily on the roles intra-governmental processes and institutional interactions in shaping between various agendas policies. These technocratic understandings overlook more political drivers coherence, such as vested interests or ideologies that may encourage hinder efforts to achieve coherence. This paper add...

Abstract Global challenges, such as climate change, require increasingly horizontal governance approaches, solving challenges is dependent on coordinating public policies between different administrative sectors. Such coordination difficult because sectors have long traditions, their own worldviews and specific objectives they seek to advance. This paper focused the complications of achieving c...

Statistical criteria for forecast quality in practice have limited relevance. They can be valid only in the context of a set of untested assumptions which are usually unknown and certainly difficult to judge for the client. Three non-statistical criteria are stressed: logical coherence, economic coherence, and stability. These criteria are best served by the use of structural models. As loss fu...