Government efforts to confront complex crises, such as climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic, have elicited populist antipathy toward scientific and technical input in policymaking. These affronts to expertise and knowledge institutions have congealed into…

This chapter examines how the issue of trust is reflected in the longstanding pragmatic perspective of the policy sciences and how it offers a pathway by which to ‘politicize’ understandings of policy capacity (including that…

Policy models based on ‘big data’ and other ‘smart’ systems, including those for circular economy (CE) transition, are proliferating as technology enables deeper monitoring and analysis. At the same time, policymaking is occurring in increasingly…

Asia’s global rise highlights a host of policy opportunities and challenges. Historically, the region’s developmentalist governments were single-minded of purpose, aiming principally for rapid economic growth. As growth stabilized and economies matured, a variety of…

Provincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) survey data and government economic data from Vietnam are used to examine the relationship between economic growth and two indicators of governance effectiveness: efficacy at working with central government drafted legislation…

What is the relationship between political stability, trust, and source effects on support for public policies? In this article, we examine how source type (and the trust respondents have in different sources) impacts support for…

This study examines patterns and sources of growth in the transport sector’s labor productivity across 13 industrialized countries over the period 2000–2015. Through decomposition analysis – specifically, the growth accounting method and industry origin analysis…

Because a city is inseparable from its economic context, its analysis must be positioned in relation to the current and future forms of capitalism that define it. Examining the commonly deployed “sustainable” and “smart” narratives…

This chapter discusses the impact of social change on how society views governance quality in the era of complex and interconnected policy problems. This era presents a valuable opportunity to revisit tensions between the deepening…

This study examines the state and development of public policy education in Thailand, including its dynamics over time, its institutional setting, and emerging forces acting upon it. It focuses on policy educational institutions, policy courses…