Track Code
RC30
Track Chairs
Prof. Araz Taeihagh
Prof. Eva Heidbreder
RC30 conducts theoretically-informed comparative studies of policies and policy processes with the explicit aim of testing and refining existing models and frameworks as well as, where possible, developing new additions to the policy studies literature.
The RC research currently focuses on four areas of work:
- The explanation of policy evolution over time,
- The examination from a comparative perspective of existing general theories, models and frameworks of policy processes and outcomes from an explicitly comparative perspective,
- The examination from a comparative perspective of more specific models and frameworks dealing with, for example,the role(s) or key actors, discourses and structures in the policy process or the operation of specific stages or phases of policy-making activities
- The methodological, epistemological and other conceptual aspects pertaining to investigations and theorization of numbers 1-3 above.
Open Panels
- Cross-Policy Designs and Mixes
Chair: Prof. Eva Heidbreder - Do Urban Security Measures Work? Effectiveness, Policy Functions, and Democratic Accountability
Chair: Prof. Marco Calaresu - Governing Under Uncertainty: Institutional Resilience, Democratic Polarization and Artificial Intelligence in Public Policy Governance across the Global South
Chair: Dr. Wellington Almeida - Institutional Design for Policy Implementation: Arrangements, Capacities, and Performance
Chair: Prof. Vanessa Elias de Oliveira - Multilevel and Polycentric Policy-Making
Chair: Prof. Eva Heidbreder - New Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives in Comparative Policy Studies
Chair: Prof. Eva Heidbreder - Policy Advice under conditions of growing political uncertainty
Chair: Prof. Eva Heidbreder - Policy-Making in the European Union
Chair: Prof. Eva Heidbreder - The Citizen Interface
Chair: Prof. Eva Heidbreder - Time and Policy
Chair: Prof. Eva Heidbreder
