Articles
Convergence and Divergence in ‘New Governance’ Arrangements: Evidence from European Integrated Natural Resource Strategies (with Jeremy Rayner), Journal of Public Policy (2006)
To analyse convergence and divergence in Natural Resource New Governance Arrangements (NRNGAs) two regimes in...
Globalization and Governance Capacity: Explaining Divergence in National Forest Programs as Instances of "Next-Generation" Regulation in Canada and Europe (with Jeremy Rayner), Governance (2006)
New policy initiatives are increasingly embedded in novel governance strategies. These new modes of governance...
Understanding the historical turn in the policy sciences: A critique of stochastic, narrative, path dependency and process-sequencing models of policy-making over time (with Jeremy Rayner), Policy Sciences (2006)
This article evaluates four general models of historical change processes which have emerged in various...
Do Networks Matter? Linking Policy Network Structure to Policy Outcomes: Evidence from Four Canadian Policy Sectors 1990-2000, Canadian Journal of Political Science (2002)
Relatively recent contributions to the policy literature have called into question the utility of the...
Beyond Legalism? Policy Ideas, Implementation Styles and Emulation-Based Convergence in Canadian and U.S. Environmental Policy, Journal of Public Policy (2000)
Past studies of the dynamics of U.S.-Canada environmental policy and policy-making have found little evidence...
Policy Subsystem Configurations and Policy Change: Operationalizing the Postpositivist Analysis of the Politics of the Policy process (with M. Ramesh), Policy Studies Journal (1998)
Over the past two decades thinking about the role of politics in the policy process...
Patterns of Policy Instrument Choice: Policy Styles, Policy Learning and the Privatization Experience (with M. Ramesh), Review of Policy Research (1993)
The spread of privatization in almost every country over the last decade reflects a rapid...
The lessons of learning: Reconciling theories of policy learning and policy change (with Colin Bennett), Policy Sciences (1992)
Several different explanations of policy change based on notions of learning have emerged in the...