Chair
Prof. Michael Mintrom, Monash University
michael.mintrom@monash.edu
Monash University
School of Social Sciences
Wellington Rd, Clayton VIC 3800,
Melbourne 3800
Australia
Co-Chairs
Dr. Araz Taeihagh, National University of Singapore
Prof. Eva Heidbreder, Otto-von Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Germany
Board members
L. Botterill, Australian National University, Australia
G. Capano, Universita Di Bologna, Italy
C.A. Dunlop, University of Exeter, UK
I. Geva-May, Simon Fraser University, Canada
B. Head, University of Queensland, Australia
M. Howlett, Simon Fraser University, Canada
C. Knill, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Germany
R. Lejano, New York University, USA
M. Ramesh, National University of Singapore, Singapore
C. Rothmayr-Allison, University of Montreal, Canada
K. Weaver, Georgetown University, USA
X. Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Background
Research committee created in 2011.
Objectives
RC30 conducts theoretically-informed comparative studies of policies and policy processes with the explicit aim of testing and refining existing models and frameworks as well as, where possible, developing new additions to the policy studies literature.
The RC research currently focuses on four areas of work:
- The explanation of policy evolution over time,
- The examination from a comparative perspective of existing general theories, models and frameworks of policy processes and outcomes from an explicitly comparative perspective,
- The examination from a comparative perspective of more specific models and frameworks dealing with, for example,the role(s) or key actors, discourses and structures in the policy process or the operation of specific stages or phases of policy-making activities
- The methodological, epistemological and other conceptual aspects pertaining to investigations and theorization of numbers 1-3 above.
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