Policy and Society

A critical assessment of the wicked problem concept: relevance and usefulness for policy science and practice

Anticipating and designing for policy effectiveness

The challenges of behavioural insights for effective policy design

Designing effective public participation

Stories of how to give or take – towards a typology of social policy reform narratives

Clusters of water governance problems and their effects on policy delivery

Designing stakeholder learning dialogues for effective global governance

Administrative coordination capacity; does the wickedness of policy areas matter?

Weaknesses of wickedness: a critical perspective on wickedness theory

One discourse to rule them all? Narrating the agenda for labor market policies in France and Germany

Are wicked problems really so wicked? Perceptions of policy problems

Intelligent modes of imperfect governance

Assessing health reform: studying tool appropriateness & critical capacities

Designing anticipatory policies through the use of ICTs

Resistance to change. The problem of high non-take up in implementing policy innovations in the Italian long-term care system

The discursive politics of marketization in home care policy implementation in Ireland

Discarding social investment and redistribution in the name of austerity? The case of Finnish family policy reforms 2007—2015

Narrative stories, institutional rules, and the politics of pension policy in Canada and the United States

When metaphors become cognitive locks: occupational pension reform in Norway

Narrative stories in Chinese characters: political framing of ageing and welfare reform in China

Designing a century ahead: climate change adaptation in the Dutch Delta

Yet another paradigm change? Narratives and competing policy paradigms in Brazilian labour market policies

Implementing the French elderly care allowance for home-based care: bureaucratic work, professional cultures and gender frames

Reform narratives and argumentative coupling in German pension policy: constructing the ‘deserving retiree’

Gender inequality by design: does successful implementation of childcare policy deliver gender-just outcomes?

The gender logic and effects of instrument mixes: implementing eldercare policy in Canada

Towards equal sharing of care? Judicial implementation of EU equal employment and work–life balance policies in Spain

When words matter: narratives and strategies in the Italian Jobs Act (2014–2016)

Designing effective water policy: capacity and effectiveness of reforms in developing countries

Care policies in practice: how discourse matters for policy implementation