257 Policy & Politics vol 39 no 2 • 257-73 (2011) • 10.1332/030557310X519669 © The Policy Press, 2011 • ISSN 0305 5736 Key words: Europeanisation • institutional change • regional policy • Turkey Original submission February 2009 • Acceptance April 2010 Institutional change and Europeanisation: explaining regional policy reform in Turkey Ebru Ertugal This article engages in a search for ‘causes of effects’ in order to disentangle the relative roles played by the European Union (EU) and domestic factors in Europeanisation processes in a candidate country
87 Policy & Politics • vol 45 • no 1 • 87–101 • © Policy Press 2017 • #PPjnl @policy_politics Print ISSN 0305 5736 • Online ISSN 1470 8442 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/030557316X14743685010425 Policy failures, policy learning and institutional change: the case of Australian health insurance policy change Adrian Kay, adrian.kay@anu.edu.au Australian National University, Australia This article presents an institutionalist perspective on the relationship between policy failure and policy learning. It contributes both to our understanding of different patterns
701 Institutional change, innovation and regulation failure: evidence from the Spanish drug market Joan Costa-Font and Jaume Puig-Junoy English Scant evidence has been reported on the influence of institutional change in drug market regulation. This article draws on the evidence of Spanish drug regulation (1980-2005) with the aim of examining whether institutional (lack of) change affected (i) regulatory innovation and (ii) the propensity of regulatory failure (rent seeking). We find that the prevailing institutional design of Spanish drug regulation has
239 FOURTEEN Policy analysis, the political game and institutional change in the labor market Graciela Bensusan and Ilan Bizberg Introduction The study of labor policies in this chapter diverges from the other aspects of public policy dealt with in this work for various reasons. It is a fact that public policy affects social sectors and interests that seek to exploit or impede its implementation, and, as such, it is always modified in practice. Nevertheless, in the context of weak institutionalization such as the Mexican labor environment, the gap between
171© The Policy Press, 2012 • ISSN 0305 5736 Key words: public sector • ideas • policy change • Finland Policy & Politics vol 40 no 2 • 171-91 (2012) • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/147084411X581871 The role of ideas and institutional change in Finnish public sector reform Mikko Niemelä and Arttu Saarinen This article explores institutional change and the role of ideas in Finnish public sector reform from the late 1970s to 2007. The main purpose of the study is to explore the ideas advanced in favour of legislative reforms – what have been the objectives behind
95 5 SUBSEQUENT EVENTS – REFLECTING ON INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AS IT HAPPENS, FURTHER DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION Developments since June 2014 – reflecting on institutional change as it happens It is difficult to monitor institutional change as it happens. While the Coalition government set out its broad plans for ‘Transforming Rehabilitation’ (TR) early in 2013, details on the process of implementation, the problems encountered and contingency plans were difficult to locate. The public debate on the privatisation of probation was relatively muted, although
183 NINE From externalisation to integration of older workers: institutional changes at the end of the worklife Bert de Vroom and Anne Marie Guillemard The central theme of this book is labour market change, its interrelationship with welfare policies, and their joint impact on citizenship. In this chapter we discuss these changes from the perspective of ageing workers. Labour market and social policies have had a major impact on the organisation of the end of the worklife for this sector of the population in the past decades. In many welfare states, social
easily changed (for example, Mahoney and Thelen, 2010 ).The crux of new institutionalism for policy studies is the claim that institutions matter in the analysis of policy change, providing constraints on as well as opportunities for change, and they emerge and develop within a wide variety of historical processes and sequences. The second-order questions of how, why and when institutions change, have often led institutionalisms, particularly the historical variety, to be judged as over-emphasising positive feedback processes and the sensitivity of small events in
2003, and 165 mayors in 2015). 7 Since some questions were asked in both surveys, they can be used to analyse the changes in local (horizontal) relations. Obviously, this method has its limitations. The projects conducted cross-sectional surveys (that is, the two waves were not the stages of a panel research), thus the subjects of the analysis are not necessarily the same mayors in the different projects. Therefore, the changes of the mayors’ perceptions between the two waves might not be solely the result of the institutional changes. Still, my assumption is that
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