41 search results for “public policy” in the Public website
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Crisis in Public Policy
This article, by Sara Perlstein, explores how perceived social acceptability shapes whether people talk about risks, showing that risk perceptions and conversations are socially negotiated rather than purely individual.
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INFLUEX: Influence of experts on public policy
INFLUEX examines the influence of experts on public policy, aiming to define, measure, and explain their role in democratic policymaking
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The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy
What does it mean to do public policy ethics today? How should philosophers engage with ethical issues in policy-making when policy decisions are circumscribed by political and pragmatic concerns? How do ethical issues in public policy differ between areas such as foreign policy, criminal justice, or…
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Arco TimmermansFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Expertise, Policy-making and Democracy
This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to debates about expertise, policy-making and democracy. It uniquely combines an overview of recent research on the policy role of experts with discussions in political philosophy and the philosophy of expertise.
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Sebastian Sewerin
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Alexandre AfonsoFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Unpacking the effects of burdensome state actions on citizens' policy perceptions
In this article, Martin Sievert and Jonas Bruder investigated whether and how administrative burdens influences citizens' perceptions of welfare policies and attitudes towards beneficiaries.
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Valérie PattynFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Júlia García PuigFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Shivant JhagroeFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Sarah GiestFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Anchrit WilleFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Constance Maly
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Making energy personal: policy coordination challenges in UK smart meter implementation
Governments are increasingly facilitating the roll-out of so-called “smart meters”, a technology for measuring energy consumption that are able to transmit and receive data using a form of electronic communication. However, implementation has been slow or even stalled.
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Emil WolffFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Sebastian DiessnerFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Ehsan JamiFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Andrei PoamaFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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GovLis: When Does Government Listen to the Public?
How interest groups, differences in policy issues and institutional differences between countries affect whether public opinion is translated into policy?
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Kristin MakszinFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Prestigious Journal of European Public Policy selects Leiden-based research for Special Issue
The Journal of European Public Policy has dedicated this year’s Special Issue to the theme of European Union Enlargement and Integration Capacity, on the suggestion of Dr. Antoaneta Dimitrova, senior lecturer at the Institute of Public Administration of Leiden University. Moreover, the Special Issue…
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Natascha van der ZwanFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Edwin BakkerFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Antonella MaielloFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Min ChoFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Unpacking Interest Groups: On the intermediary role of interest groups and its effects for their political relevance
How and when do interest groups organise themselves as transmission belts and what are the implications for their political relevance among public officials involved decision-making processes?
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Bram KlievinkFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Pieter SlamanFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Katharina NatterFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Johan ChristensenFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Dimiter ToshkovFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Human Rights at Risk: Global Governance, American Power, and the Future of Dignity
Human Rights at Risk brings together social scientists, legal scholars, and humanities scholars to analyze the policy challenges of human rights protection in the twenty-first century.
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Tom Theuns
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Adina Akbik
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Managing uncertainty key to success community team professionals
As a result of the decentralisation of responsibilities in the public domain, most Dutch municipalities have created community teams. These community teams are tasked with providing easy access to care and support for citizens and with providing solutions to fit their individual needs. This requires…
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Patricio SilvaFaculty of Humanities
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‘Digital services lean heavily on the social infrastructure’
Governments worldwide invest huge sums in their digital services and data strategies. Efficiency and effectiveness are key. But these are not achieved for some people at least, says Professor of Public Policy Sarah Giest. This makes the intended digital inclusion far from inclusive, as she will explain…
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Festive hand-over of first copy new book by Frits van der Meer
In celebration of the release of his new book on changes in public administration, Prof. dr. Frits van der Meer, professor by special appointment of the CAOP chair: Comparative Public Sector and Civil Service Reform, handed the first copy to Gert-Jan Buitendijk, Secretary General of Ministry of General…
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Alexandre Afonso on possible Brexit coalition
How can the United Kingdom find coalitions for a Brexit? Alexandre Afonso, Assistant Professor at the Institute for Public Administration, analysed how the Members of Parliament voted up to now and presents a graph with possible coalitions on several withdrawal agreements. The article is published in…
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Governments overly optimistic about the use of digital innovations
The government is digitalizing and making use of ‘big data’ in its decision making processes. But the expectations of digitalization are often overly optimistic, according to Bram Klieving, Professor Digitalization and Public Policy. Klievink is about to start with multidisciplinary research looking…