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Learning in Public Policy

Analysis, Modes and Outcomes

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Editors:
  1. Claire A. Dunlop

    1. Department of Politics, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

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  2. Claudio M. Radaelli

    1. Department of Politics, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

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  3. Philipp Trein

    1. Institute of Political, Historical, and International Studies, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

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  • Presents a comprehensive approach to the mechanisms and the politics that define the quantity and quality of policy learning
  • Provides a rich variation of case studies, across many countries and at many different levels of the field
  • Addresses both the presence of learning and its pathologies, deploying state-of-the-art methods and models

Part of the book series: International Series on Public Policy (ISPP)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Introduction: The Family Tree of Policy Learning

    • Claire A. Dunlop, Claudio M. Radaelli, Philipp Trein
    Pages 1-25

  3. Lessons Learned and Not Learned: Bibliometric Analysis of Policy Learning

    • Nihit Goyal, Michael Howlett
    Pages 27-49

  4. Learning in the European Commission’s Renewable Energy Policy-Making and Climate Governance

    • Katharina Rietig
    Pages 51-74

  5. Mechanisms of Policy Learning in the European Semester: Pension Reforms in Belgium

    • Christos Louvaris Fasois
    Pages 75-96

  6. Individual Learning Behaviour in Collaborative Networks

    • Vidar Stevens
    Pages 97-121

  7. Learning from Practical Experience: Implementation Epistemic Communities in the European Union

    • Daniel Polman
    Pages 123-144

  8. The Rise and Demise of Epistemic Policy Learning: The Case of EU Biotechnology Regulation

    • Falk Daviter
    Pages 145-165

  9. Public Versus Non-profit Housing in Canadian Provinces: Learning, History and Cost-Benefit Analysis

    • Maroine Bendaoud
    Pages 167-189

  10. Blocked Learning in Greece: The Case of Soft-Governance

    • Thenia Vagionaki
    Pages 191-214

  11. Structure, Agency and Policy Learning: Australia’s Multinational Corporations Dilemma

    • Tim Legrand
    Pages 215-241

  12. Median Problem Pressure and Policy Learning: An Exploratory Analysis of European Countries

    • Philipp Trein
    Pages 243-266

  13. The Hard Case for Learning: Explaining the Diversity of Swiss Tobacco Advertisement Bans

    • Johanna Kuenzler
    Pages 267-294

  14. The Policy-Making of Investment Treaties in Brazil: Policy Learning in the Context of Late Adoption

    • Martino Maggetti, Henrique Choer Moraes
    Pages 295-316

  15. Interdependent Policy Learning: Contextual Diffusion of Active Labour Market Policies

    • Jan Helmdag, Kati Kuitto
    Pages 317-346

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 347-360
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About this book

This book explains the causal pathways, the mechanisms and the politics that define the quantity and quality of policy learning. 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. The theoretically diverse chapters address both the presence of learning and its pathologies, deploying state-of-the-art methods, including process tracing, diffusion models, and fuzzy-set techniques.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Politics, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

    Claire A. Dunlop, Claudio M. Radaelli

  • Institute of Political, Historical, and International Studies, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Philipp Trein

About the editors

Claire A. Dunlop is Professor of Politics at the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter, UK. She is editor of Public Policy and Administration.


Claudio M. Radaelli is Professor of Political Science, Jean Monnet Chair in Political Economy and Director of the Centre for European Governance at the University of Exeter, UK.


Philipp Trein is a senior researcher in political science at the IEPHI (Institute of Political, Historical, and International Studies) of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

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