Learning in Public Policy

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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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.

• Democracy
• Mechanisms
• Methods
• Policy Learning
• Theories of the policy process
• Bibliometrics
• Networks
• Systematic reviews
• Constructive Learning
• European Commission
• European Union
• Experiential Learning
• Reflection
• Renewable Energy Directive
• Economic Policy
• European Semester
• Policy Coordination
• Exponential Random Graph Modelling
• Innovation
• Public administration

• 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

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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