This paper investigates the impact of governance on economic reform and performance in transition economies. The applied concept of governance allows the identification of institutional impediments to transition in a comparative way. The empirical analysis of the concept confirms the view that governance matters. The panel data set constructed for this study allows to identify three independent...

OBJECTIVES In this paper we focus on governance and the added value of regionalization in the context of health policy implementation. What are regional boards' patterns of action in the governance process?How do these patterns favour policy implementation? ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK: To enhance our understanding of the role of regional boards in governance processes, we relied on four conceptual con...

The development of a new policy instrument, “emissions trading”, is analysed as an innovation journey in the realm of governance. Tracking the process by which a novel pattern of social regulation emerges and travels shows how “policy technology” develops according to dynamics of its own, partly independent of policy problems and goals. Interactions across science, policy development and partic...

background the migration of dentists is a major policy challenge facing both developing and developed countries. dentists from over 120 countries migrate to australia, and a large proportion are from developing countries. the aim of the study was to assess the life story experience (lse) of migrant dentists in australia, in order to address key policy challenges facing dentist migration.   meth...

in his perspective “navigating between stealth advocacy and unconscious dogmatism: the challenge of researching the norms, politics and power of global health,” ooms argues that actions taken in the field of global health are dependent not only on available resources, but on the normative premise that guides how these resources are spent. this comment sets out how the application of a predomina...

Clinical governance approaches in Queensland health were trenchantly criticised in 2005 by two external reviews. In designing the new approach to clinical governance it was recognised that clinical governance should not be seen as only being about traditional safety and quality policies. A range of levers and policy instruments have been used in Queensland health to effect a new approach to cli...

Guest Editors 1 Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, The Netherlands, [email protected] 2 ESADE Institute of Public Governance and Management, Spain, [email protected] 3 Danube University Krems, Center for E-Governance, Austria, [email protected] 4 Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Manageme...

The paper discusses the concept of “Transition management” that has been adopted by Dutch policy makers for working towards sustainability. The purpose of the paper is threefold: First, to describe the conceptual model of transition management. Second, to examine how the concept sits with concepts of comprehensive planning, adaptive governance, interactive governance, and multilevel governance ...

In recent years, there is a growing interest in the study of cross-national policy convergence, which is closely related to research on the domestic impact of globalisation. Yet we still have a limited understanding of the phenomenon of policy convergence. Does the strong growth of economic and institutional interlinkages between nation states lead to increasingly similar policies across countr...

Dr. Thomas Hoppe is assistant professor of Innovation and Sustainable Governance at the Centre for Studies in Technology and Sustainable Development (CSTM). He specializes in environmental policy, public policy, policy implementation, climate policy, sustainable housing, energy transition and corporate social responsibility. He has also been involved in externally funded projects concerning pol...