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Coming soon! With Cambridge University Press - Studying Public Policy: Connecting Theory to Practice, Fifth ed. by Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh and Anthony Perl - June 2026

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📬 One option for #PolicyReform is to #terminate or end a policy, program, or project. However, there are other similar but different outcomes

🖊️ @andreamigone.bsky.social, Alexander Howlett & @howlettm.bsky.social study #DefensePolicy and #military spending in #Canada 👇

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Theorizing the functions and patterns of agency in the policymaking process - Policy Sciences Theories of the policy process understand the dynamics of policymaking as the result of the interaction of structural and agency variables. While these theories tend to conceptualize structural…

ANNOUNCEMENT: The 2025-2026 Lasswell Prize for Best Article in Policy Sciences winner.
"Theorizing the functions annd patterns of agency in the policy-making process" - Giliberto Capano, Maria Tullia Galanti, Karin Ingold, Evangelia Petridou & Christopher Weible
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From demand-side to supply-side regulation of government consultants: Recent trends in three OECD countries Both practitioners and academics now grapple with concerns raised in legislatures and the media surrounding the use of consultants in the public sector. Issues around declines in public service cap...

Just out in issue "From demand-side to supply-side regulation of government consultants: Recent trends in three OECD countries" by Sahar Zaman, Michael Howlett & Andrea Migone, Public Money & Management 26(2):163-173 2026

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Theorizing the functions and patterns of agency in the policymaking process - Policy Sciences Theories of the policy process understand the dynamics of policymaking as the result of the interaction of structural and agency variables. While these theories tend to conceptualize structural…

ANNOUNCEMENT: The 2025-2026 Lasswell Prize for Best Article in Policy Sciences winner.
"Theorizing the functions annd patterns of agency in the policy-making process" - Giliberto Capano, Maria Tullia Galanti, Karin Ingold, Evangelia Petridou & Christopher Weible
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Policy termination in state-driven spheres: the role of inter-agency de-alignment Abstract. Early studies of policy termination focused on identifying the drivers and barriers to ending programs, such as the emergence of fiscal and other

Just out and open access in Policy & Society - " Policy termination in state-driven spheres: the role of inter-agency de-alignment" by Andrea Migone , Alexander Howlett , Michael Howlett @howlettm

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New preprint! A general overview of stats in public policy research with this (oversimplified but still helpful) separation of methods into description, explanation, and prediction #policysky

HTML/PDF: stats.andrewheiss.com/snoopy-spring/
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Just Out and Open Access! Special Issue of Policy & Society 44(4) Dec 2025 on Politics of Intermediation eds. Jale Tosun, David Levi-Faur, Avri Eitan. Articles on regulation, compliance and collaboration across multiple sectors and countries

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS - Special Issue on Diagnostic Methods in Policy-Making: Abductive Reasoning in Policy Analysis, Practice and Pedagogy Eds. M. Ramesh and Michael Howlett

Just out & Open Access Vol 9(1) of Policy Design and Practice. Articles on regulatory sandboxes, algorithms, accountability, time, lesson-drawing, authoritarianism, policy transfer & India

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Just published - Annual Review of Policy Design 2025. Articles, reports and research of interest to the field from 2025 + classic articles and reviews.

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Just Out! New Issue of Policy Sciences (Dec 2025).

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Articles on complexity science, transgender policy, policy learning, law, leadership, soveriegnty, buzzwords, minipublics & wildlife

Artificial Intelligence and Public Policy Cambridge Core - Political Economy - Artificial Intelligence and Public Policy

New Cambridge Element of Public Policy on AI

"Artificial Intelligence and Public Policy" by Fernando Filgueiras

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Just Out! New Issue of Policy Sciences (Dec 2025).

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Articles on complexity science, transgender policy, policy learning, law, leadership, soveriegnty, buzzwords, minipublics & wildlife

Call for Papers Now Out! 2026 Asia Pacific Public Policy Network (AP-PPN) Conference
“Innovating Public Policy for a Sustainable Asia-Pacific: Data, Technology, Trust and
Resilience” May 30-31, 2026 Nankai University (NKU), Tianjin
Conference Website: asiapacificppn.org　Mode: In-person only

Just out Wellstead, Adam and Howlett, Michael, "Capacity for What? Elon Musk's DOGE, Public Value Destruction and the Darkside of Policy Capacity" (November 26, 2025). Available at SSRN: ssrn.com/abstract=581... or dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Just out and 100% OA in Policy Design & Practice October Issue 8(4). Articles on
system leadership, wicked problems, AI, digital government, citizen evaluation, aboriginal co-design, food security and local procurement.

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🛎️New Issue is out❗️

Towards a 3⃣rd generation of #PolicyAdvisorySystems studies❓

Co-guest edited by @andreamigone.bsky.social & @howlettm.bsky.social, the new generation studies how different PAS are structured and operated—or managed—to deliver quality results👇

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The Special Issue about 3rd generation Policy Advisory Systems edited by me and @howlettm.bsky.social as just been published in @policysociety.bsky.social Nine OA articles focusing on the future of PAS. @raulpachecovega.bsky.social @gcapano.bsky.social

The introduction by @howlettm.bsky.social, Tullia Galanti, @andreamigone.bsky.social and Giulia Vicentini
discusses how quality of advice and the fluider nature of PAS have become key elements of this 3rd generation. @sfu.ca

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In their article, @andreamigone.bsky.social and @howlettm.bsky.social look at how 3rd generation PAS manage the political and technical risks associated with the production and trasmission of advice.

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Just out & Open Access in Policy & Society 44(3) Sept 2025 -Special Issue "Towards a 3rd Generation of Policy Advisory System Studies" Eds Michael Howlett & Andrea Migone
@howlettm @Andrea_Migone

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Volume 44 Issue 3 | Policy and Society | Oxford Academic Policy and Society is a leading international open access journal that publishes peer-reviewed research on critical issues in policy theory and practice at the local, national and international…

Just out & OA in Policy & Society 44(3) Sept 2025 - Special Issue "Towards a 3rd Generation of Policy Advisory System Studies" Eds Mike Howlett and Andrea Migone @howlettm @Andrea_Migone Papers on PAS Quality and Management - Canada EU Germany China Kazakhstan&Kenya
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Dictionary of Policy Design ‘This Dictionary of Policy Design fills a large gap. It provides succinct and reliable definitions and explanations of key terms relevant to analysis of policy problems and policy responses. This is u...

Just published! Dictionary of Policy Design. By Michael Howlett @howlettm and Alexander Howlett @Suetonius_

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Volume 44 Issue 2 | Policy and Society | Oxford Academic Policy and Society is a leading international open access journal that publishes peer-reviewed research on critical issues in policy theory and practice at the local, national and international…

Just Out and Open Access! Special Issue of Policy & Society on "Malignity in Policy Sciences" eds M. Jae Moon & Tim Legrand. Articles on Zombie Policies, India, Robodebt, Clientelism, Honesty, Emotions, Revolving Doors & Authoritarianism.

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New Issue of Policy Sciences now out: September 2025.

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Policy Sciences 58(3) now out. Articles by Thompson et al, van Uffelen et al, Kammerer et al, Boon & Wolf, Ambrose & Imperial, Kim & Ko, Gonnet et al, Durnova et al, and Cairney.

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Hot off the press! Latest issue of Policy Sciences (Sept 2025) now out. Articles on policy coherence, policy success, collaborative governance, policy emotions, policy innovation and more.

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Now out in Issue and Open Access - "Beyond evidentiary uncertainty: mitigating political risks in policy designs" by @howlettm & @Andrea_Migone. Policy Design & Practice 8(3) SI on Uncertainty eds. Lewis and Bali

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Policy Design and Practice Navigating Uncertainty in Policy Design; Guest editor: Jenny M Lewis and Azad Bali. Volume 8, Issue 3 of Policy Design and Practice

Just out and Open Access in Policy Design & Practice. Special Issue on "Navigating Uncertainty in Policy Design" eds. Jenny M Lewis and Azad Bali. Articles on policy tools, policy labs, models, political risks, decoy goals and more.

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