This book examines the variation in high-skilled immigration policies in OECD countries. These countries face economic and social pressures from slowing productivity, ageing populations and pressing labour shortages. To address these inter-related challenges, the potential of the global labour market needs to be harnessed. Countries need to intensify their efforts to attract talented people - the best and the brightest. While some are excelling in this new marketplace, others lag behind. The book explores the reasons for this, analysing the interplay between interests and institutions. It...
This book examines the variation in high-skilled immigration policies in OECD countries. These countries face economic and social pressures from sl...
This book furthers the ongoing theoretical development of the multiple streams framework, assessing its applicability to European Union (EU) policy-making processes. It systematically defines and identifies functional equivalents for all of the framework s core concepts at the EU level and extends the framework in order to explain agenda-setting and decision-making. Furthermore, the book derives a set of explicit hypotheses to empirically assess the extent to which the (modified) framework is able to explain timing, agenda prominence, and policy change (or a lack thereof) for the EU natural...
This book furthers the ongoing theoretical development of the multiple streams framework, assessing its applicability to European Union (EU) policy-ma...
This volume explores the defining features, critical approaches, challenges and opportunities for public policy in the `Asian Century'. It is essential reading for scholars of public policy, public management, international relations, and politics and social sciences, as well as for administrators and public servants.
This volume explores the defining features, critical approaches, challenges and opportunities for public policy in the `Asian Century'. It is essentia...
A rich collection of case studies structured around a strong conceptual architecture, the volume comprises fresh, original, empirical evidence for a large number of countries, sectors and multi-level governance settings including the European Commission, the European Union, and individual countries across Europe, Australia, Canada and Brazil.
A rich collection of case studies structured around a strong conceptual architecture, the volume comprises fresh, original, empirical evidence for a l...
This book sheds light on the patterns, causes and consequences of the "customization" of European Union (EU) policies. After looking at the role of prominent compliance arguments and the "logics of action" for customization, the study assesses how differing degrees of customization affect the success of the implementation.
This book sheds light on the patterns, causes and consequences of the "customization" of European Union (EU) policies. After looking at the role of pr...
This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book provides a set of conceptual, empirical, and comparative chapters that apply a public policy perspective to investigate the political and institutional factors driving the use of evidence to inform health policy in low, middle, and high income settings.
This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book provides a set of conceptual, empirical, and comparative chapters that apply a public poli...
