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  1. Challenges in applying design thinking to public policy: dealing with the varieties of policy formulation and their vicissitudes

    Article • Policy & Politics, January 2020, Policy Press

    Michael Howlett

  2. Governing international regime complexes through multi-level governance mechanisms: lessons from water, forestry and migration policy

    Article • International Journal of Water Resources Development, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  3. Comparing policy advisory systems beyond the OECD: models, dynamics and the second-generation research agenda

    Article • Policy Studies, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  4. Varieties of collaboration in public service delivery

    Article • Policy Design and Practice, December 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  5. Designing for robustness: surprise, agility and improvisation in policy design

    Article • Policy and Society, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett, giliberto capano

  6. Designing effective public participation

    Article • Policy and Society, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  7. Commentary on “Punching below its weight”

    Article • Canadian Public Administration, September 2018, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  8. Understanding co-production as a new public governance tool

    Article • Policy and Society, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett, Prof. Maddalena Sorrentino

  9. Moving policy implementation theory forward: A multiple streams/critical juncture approach

    Article • Public Policy and Administration, May 2018, SAGE Publications

    Michael Howlett

  10. Policy analysis in Canada

    Article • May 2018, JSTOR

    Michael Howlett

  11. Technology and Instrument Constituencies as Agents of Innovation: Sustainability Transitions and the Governance of Urban Transport

    Article • Energies, May 2018, MDPI AG

    Michael Howlett

  12. The Contribution of Comparative Policy Analysis to Policy Design: Articulating Principles of Effectiveness and Clarifying Design Spaces

    Article • Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  13. Policy Capacity and Governance

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Howlett

  14. The criteria for effective policy design: character and context in policy instrument choice

    Article • Journal of Asian Public Policy, December 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  15. Conceptual and empirical advances in analysing policy mixes for energy transitions

    Article • Energy Research & Social Science, November 2017, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  16. Policy Analytical Capacity: The Supply and Demand for Policy Analysis in Government

    Article • October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Howlett

  17. Policy Capacity: Conceptual Framework and Essential Components

    Article • October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Howlett

  18. Policy Mixes and their Alignment over Time: Patching and stretching in the oil sands reclamation regime in Alberta, Canada

    Article • Environmental Policy and Governance, September 2017, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  19. On credit and blame: disentangling the motivations of public policy decision-making behaviour

    Article • Policy Sciences, June 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Howlett

  20. Calibrating climate change policies: the causes and consequences of sustained under-reaction

    Article • Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, May 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  21. Policy Integration and Multi-Level Governance: Dealing with the Vertical Dimension of Policy Mix Designs

    Article • Politics and Governance, May 2017, Cogitatio

    Michael Howlett, Joanna Vince

  22. Routledge Handbook of Comparative Policy Analysis

    Article • April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  23. Policy design: From tools to patches

    Article • Canadian Public Administration, March 2017, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  24. Understanding Co-Production as a Policy Tool: Integrating New Public Governance and Comparative Policy Theory

    Article • Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  25. Introduction to the Special Issue: “Conceptualizing Effective Social Policy Design: Design Spaces and Capacity Challenges”

    Article • Public Administration and Development, February 2017, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  26. Policy myopia as a source of policy failure: adaptation and policy learning under deep uncertainty

    Article • Policy & Politics, January 2017, Policy Press

    Michael Howlett

  27. Handbook of Policy Formulation

    Article • January 2017, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Michael Howlett

  28. Matching policy tools and their targets: beyond nudges and utility maximisation in policy design

    Article • Policy & Politics, January 2017, Policy Press

    Michael Howlett

  29. “Push” dynamics in policy experimentation: Downscaling climate change adaptation programs in Canada

    Article • Climate Services, December 2016, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  30. Assisted tree migration in North America: policy legacies, enhanced forest policy integration and climate change adaptation

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, November 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  31. Dynamics of global financial governance: Constraints, opportunities, and capacities in Asia

    Article • Policy and Society, September 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  32. Image and Substance Failures in Regional Organisations: Causes, Consequences, Learning and Change?

    Article • Politics and Governance, August 2016, Cogitatio

    Michael Howlett

  33. From robustness to resilience: avoiding policy traps in the long term

    Article • Sustainability Science, August 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Howlett

  34. The use of indicators in environmental policy appraisal: lessons from the design and evolution of water security policy measures

    Article • Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, July 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  35. Charles E. Lindblom, “The Science of Muddling Through”

    Article • July 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Michael Howlett

  36. Structural-functionalism redux: adaptation to climate change and the challenge of a science-driven policy agenda

    Article • Critical Policy Studies, June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  37. The Role and Impact of the Multiple-Streams Approach in Comparative Policy Analysis

    Article • Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  38. Greening the state? The framing of sustainability in Dutch infrastructure governance

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, April 2016, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  39. Moving Policy Theory Forward: Connecting Multiple Stream and Advocacy Coalition Frameworks to Policy Cycle Models of Analysis

    Article • Australian Journal of Public Administration, March 2016, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  40. Meaning and power in the design and development of policy experiments

    Article • Futures, February 2016, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  41. Alberta's oil sands reclamation policy trajectory: the role of tense layering, policy stretching, and policy patching in long-term policy dynamics

    Article • Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  42. Measuring Individual-Level Analytical, Managerial and Political Policy Capacity: A Survey Instrument

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2016, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  43. How Solutions Chase Problems: Instrument Constituencies in the Policy Process

    Article • Governance, November 2015, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  44. The parameters of policy portfolios: verticality and horizontality in design spaces and their consequences for policy mix formulation

    Article • Environment and Planning C Government and Policy, October 2015, SAGE Publications

    Michael Howlett

  45. Weaving the Fabric of Public Policies: Comparing and Integrating Contemporary Frameworks for the Study of Policy Processes

    Article • Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  46. Scaling up of Policy Experiments and Pilots: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Lessons for the Water Sector

    Article • Water Resources Management, September 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Howlett

  47. Explaining dynamics without change: a critical subsector approach to financial policy making

    Article • Journal of Asian Public Policy, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  48. Legitimation capacity: System-level resources and political skills in public policy

    Article • Policy and Society, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  49. Policy analytical capacity: The supply and demand for policy analysis in government

    Article • Policy and Society, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  50. Policy capacity: A conceptual framework for understanding policy competences and capabilities

    Article • Policy and Society, September 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  51. Who Is a Stream? Epistemic Communities, Instrument Constituencies and Advocacy Coalitions in Public Policy-Making

    Article • Politics and Governance, August 2015, Cogitatio

    Michael Howlett

  52. Bringing Governments Back in: Governance and Governing in Comparative Policy Analysis

    Article • Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice, August 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  53. Understanding the persistence of policy failures: The role of politics, governance and uncertainty

    Article • Public Policy and Administration, July 2015, SAGE Publications

    Michael Howlett

  54. Achilles' heels of governance: Critical capacity deficits and their role in governance failures

    Article • Regulation & Governance, May 2015, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  55. Opening up the black box of adaptation decision-making

    Article • Nature Climate Change, May 2015, Nature

    Michael Howlett

  56. From tools to toolkits in policy design studies: the new design orientation towards policy formulation research

    Article • Policy & Politics, April 2015, Policy Press

    Michael Howlett

  57. Second Best Governance? Governments and Governance in the Imperfect World of Health Care Delivery in China, India and Thailand in Comparative Perspective

    Article • Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice, January 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  58. Varieties of Governance

    Article • January 2015, Nature

    Michael Howlett

  59. Policy Paradigms in Theory and Practice

    Article • January 2015, Nature

    Michael Howlett

  60. Pointing Towards Policy Success?: Water Policy Indicators in Practice

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2015, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  61. Policy Cycle

    Article • January 2015, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  62. Who is a Stream? Epistemic Communities, Instrument Constituencies and Advocacy Coalitions in Multiple Streams Subsystems

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2015, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  63. Governing Health Care in an Imperfect World: Hierarchy, Markets and Networks in China and Thailand

    Article • January 2015, Nature

    Michael Howlett

  64. Reflections on Our Understanding of Policy Paradigms and Policy Change

    Article • January 2015, Nature

    Michael Howlett

  65. Paradigm Construction and the Politics of Policy Anomalies

    Article • January 2015, Nature

    Michael Howlett

  66. Re-thinking Governance in Public Policy: Dynamics, Strategy and Capacities

    Article • January 2015, Nature

    Michael Howlett

  67. The relevance of the academic study of public policy

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Howlett

  68. The two orders of governance failure: Design mismatches and policy capacity issues in modern governance

    Article • Policy and Society, December 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  69. Policy Design and Non-Design: Towards a Spectrum of Policy Formulation Types

    Article • Politics and Governance, November 2014, Cogitatio

    Michael Howlett

  70. Why are policy innovations rare and so often negative? Blame avoidance and problem denial in climate change policy-making

    Article • Global Environmental Change, November 2014, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  71. Tracing How Governments Think

    Article • October 2014, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Michael Howlett

  72. The distribution of analytical techniques in policy advisory systems: Policy formulation and the tools of policy appraisal

    Article • Public Policy and Administration, October 2014, SAGE Publications

    Michael Howlett

  73. Introduction: time, temporality and timescapes in administration and policy

    Article • International Review of Administrative Sciences, September 2014, SAGE Publications

    Michael Howlett

  74. Streams and stages: Reconciling Kingdon and policy process theory

    Article • European Journal of Political Research, July 2014, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  75. Regulation and time: temporal patterns in regulatory development

    Article • International Review of Administrative Sciences, June 2014, SAGE Publications

    Michael Howlett

  76. The Elements of Effective Program Design: A Two-Level Analysis

    Article • Politics and Governance, June 2014, Cogitatio

    Michael Howlett

  77. Making the invisible public service visible? Exploring data on the supply of policy and management consultancies in Canada

    Article • Canadian Public Administration, June 2014, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  78. From the ‘old’ to the ‘new’ policy design: design thinking beyond markets and collaborative governance

    Article • Policy Sciences, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Howlett

  79. Assessing contract policy work: overseeing Canadian policy consultants

    Article • Public Money & Management, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  80. The politics of policy anomalies: bricolage and the hermeneutics of paradigms

    Article • Critical Policy Studies, April 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  81. Duplicative or Complementary? The Relationship between Policy Consulting and Internal Policy Analysis in Canadian Government

    Article • Canadian Journal of Political Science, March 2014, Cambridge University Press

    Michael Howlett

  82. Understanding the pre-conditions of commons governance: The role of network management

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, February 2014, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  83. Conceptualizing Public Policy

    Article • January 2014, Nature

    Michael Howlett

  84. Improving Global Water Governance: Dealing with Weak International Regimes through Enhanced Multi-Level Governance

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  85. La réglementation et le temps : Les régimes temporels dans l'élaboration de la réglementation

    Article • Revue Internationale des Sciences Administratives, January 2014, CAIRN

    Michael Howlett

  86. Design and Scaling Up of Policy Experiments and Pilots: Lessons for the Water Sector

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  87. The Achilles Heel of Governance: Critical Capacity Deficits and Their Role in Governance Failures

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  88. Policy Design and Non-Design: Towards a Spectrum of Policy Formulation Types

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  89. Dealing with the Likelihood of Failure Over the Long-Term: Adaptive Policy Design Under Uncertainty

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  90. Beyond the black box: Forest sector vulnerability assessments and adaptation to climate change in North America

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, January 2014, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  91. Introduction : Le temps, la temporalité et le paysage temporel dans l'administration et les politiques

    Article • Revue Internationale des Sciences Administratives, January 2014, CAIRN

    Michael Howlett

  92. Comparative Climate Change Governance: Lessons from European Transnational Municipal Network Management Efforts

    Article • Environmental Policy and Governance, November 2013, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  93. Patching vs Packaging in Policy Formulation: Assessing Policy Portfolio Design

    Article • October 2013, Librello

    Michael Howlett

  94. Patching vs Packaging in Policy Formulation: Assessing Policy Portfolio Design

    Article • Politics and Governance, October 2013, Cogitatio

    Michael Howlett

  95. Policy advice through the market: The role of external consultants in contemporary policy advisory systems

    Article • Policy and Society, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  96. The dual dynamics of policy advisory systems: The impact of externalization and politicization on policy advice

    Article • Policy and Society, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  97. The permanence of temporary services: The reliance of Canadian federal departments on policy and management consultants

    Article • Canadian Public Administration, September 2013, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  98. After “the Regulatory Moment” in Comparative Regulatory Studies: Modeling the Early Stages of Regulatory Life Cycles

    Article • Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  99. Assessing Policy Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation: Governance Arrangements, Resource Deployments, and Analytical Skills inCanadian Infrastructure Policy Making

    Article • Review of Policy Research, January 2013, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  100. Beyond the 'Tinbergen Rule' in Policy Design: Matching Tools and Goals in Policy Portfolios

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  101. The Permanence of Temporary Services: The Reliance of Canadian Federal Departments on Policy & Management Consultants

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2013, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  102. Policy Capacity and the Ability to Adapt to Climate Change: Canadian and U.S. Case Studies

    Article • Review of Policy Research, January 2013, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  103. The Neglect of Governance in Forest Sector Vulnerability Assessments: Structural-Functionalism and “Black Box” Problems in Climate Change Adaptation Planning

    Article • Ecology and Society, January 2013, Resilience Alliance, Inc.

    Michael Howlett

  104. Policy Work in Multi-Level States: Institutional Autonomy and Task Allocation among Canadian Policy Analysts

    Article • Canadian Journal of Political Science, December 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Michael Howlett

  105. Tales From the Crypt

    Article • Administration & Society, October 2012, SAGE Publications

    Michael Howlett

  106. The lessons of failure: learning and blame avoidance in public policy-making

    Article • International Political Science Review, October 2012, SAGE Publications

    Michael Howlett

  107. Policy formulation, governance shifts and policy influence: location and content in policy advisory systems

    Article • Journal of Public Policy, June 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Michael Howlett

  108. Regulating Next Generation Agri-Food Biotechnologies

    Article • April 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  109. Public Managers in the Policy Process: More Evidence on the Missing Variable?

    Article • Policy Studies Journal, April 2012, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  110. Professional policy work in federal states: Institutional autonomy andCanadian policy analysis

    Article • Canadian Public Administration, March 2012, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  111. Policy Instruments Used by States Seeking to Improve School Food Environments

    Article • American Journal of Public Health, February 2012, American Public Health Association

    Michael Howlett

  112. Policy Analysts in the Bureaucracy Revisited: The Nature of Professional Policy Work in Contemporary Government

    Article • Politics &amp Policy, July 2011, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  113. Policy Analytical Capacity in Changing Governance Contexts: A Structural Equation Model (SEM) Study of Contemporary Canadian Policy Work

    Article • Public Policy and Administration, July 2011, SAGE Publications

    Michael Howlett

  114. Public Managers as the Missing Variable in Policy Studies: An Empirical Investigation Using Canadian Data

    Article • Review of Policy Research, May 2011, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  115. La capacité d'analyse des politiques au gouvernement du Québec : Résultats du sondage auprès de fonctionnaires québécois

    Article • Canadian Public Administration, March 2011, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  116. Charles Lindblom is alive and well and living in punctuated equilibrium land

    Article • Policy and Society, February 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  117. Controversial science-based technology public attitude formation and regulation in comparative perspective: The state construction of policy alternatives in Asia

    Article • Technology in Society, February 2011, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  118. Transnational learning, policy analytical capacity, and environmental policy convergence: Survey results from Canada

    Article • Global Environmental Change, February 2011, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  119. Designing Public Policies

    Article • December 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  120. Explaining local variation in agri-food biotechnology policies: 'green' genomics regulation in comparative perspective

    Article • Science and Public Policy, December 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Michael Howlett

  121. The Canadian biotechnology regulatory regime: The role of participation

    Article • Technology in Society, November 2010, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  122. The Public Policy Primer

    Article • August 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  123. Assessing Policy Analytical Capacity: Comparative Insights from a Study of the Canadian Environmental Policy Advice System

    Article • Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice, August 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  124. Policy analysis and policy work in federal systems: Policy advice and its contribution to evidence-based policy-making in multi-level governance systems

    Article • Policy and Society, May 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  125. Canadian Environmental Politics and Policy

    Article • April 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Michael Howlett

  126. Government communication and democratic governance: Electoral and policy-related information campaigns in Canada

    Article • Policy and Society, January 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  127. Classifying biotechnology-related policy, regulatory and innovation regimes: A framework for the comparative analysis of genomics policy-making

    Article • Policy and Society, December 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  128. Process Sequencing Policy Dynamics: Beyond Homeostasis and Path Dependency

    Article • Journal of Public Policy, October 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Michael Howlett

  129. From government to governance in forest planning? Lessons from the case of the British Columbia Great Bear Rainforest initiative

    Article • Forest Policy and Economics, October 2009, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  130. Implementing transition management as policy reforms: a case study of the Dutch energy sector

    Article • Policy Sciences, August 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Howlett

  131. Implementing Integrated Land Management in Western Canada: Policy Reform and the Resilience of Clientelism

    Article • Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research, August 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  132. Introduction: Understanding integrated policy strategies and their evolution

    Article • Policy and Society, July 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  133. Conclusion: Governance arrangements and policy capacity for policy integration

    Article • Policy and Society, July 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  134. European and North American Policy Change

    Article • June 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  135. Policy analytical capacity and evidence-based policy-making: Lessons from Canada

    Article • Canadian Public Administration, June 2009, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  136. Governance modes, policy regimes and operational plans: A multi-level nested model of policy instrument choice and policy design

    Article • Policy Sciences, February 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Howlett

  137. Policy Advice in Multi-Level Governance Systems: Sub-National Policy Analysts and Analysis

    Article • International Review of Public Administration, January 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  138. Third Generation Policy Diffusion Studies and the Analysis of Policy Mixes: Two Steps Forward and One Step Back?

    Article • Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis Research and Practice, December 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  139. The National Forest Strategy in comparative perspective

    Article • The Forestry Chronicle, September 2007, Canadian Institute of Forestry

    Michael Howlett

  140. Analyzing Multi-Actor, Multi-Round Public Policy Decision-Making Processes in Government: Findings from Five Canadian Cases

    Article • Canadian Journal of Political Science, September 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Michael Howlett

  141. Punctuating Which Equilibrium? Understanding Thermostatic Policy Dynamics in Pacific Northwest Forestry

    Article • American Journal of Political Science, July 2007, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  142. 1. Policy Analysis in Canada: The State of the Art

    Article • January 2007, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  143. 4. Beyond Formal Policy Analysis: Governance Context, Analytical Styles, and the Policy Analysis Movement in Canada

    Article • January 2007, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  144. Policy Analysis in Canada

    Article • January 2007, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  145. Caught in a Staples Vise: The Political Economy of Canadian Aquaculture

    Article • Policy and Society, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  146. Introduction: Towards a Post-Staples State?

    Article • Policy and Society, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  147. Design Principles for Policy Mixes: Cohesion and Coherence in ‘New Governance Arrangements’

    Article • Policy and Society, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  148. Convergence and Divergence in ‘New Governance’ Arrangements: Evidence from European Integrated Natural Resource Strategies

    Article • Journal of Public Policy, July 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Michael Howlett

  149. Globalization and the Choice of Governing Instruments: The Direct, Indirect, and Opportunity Effects of Internationalization

    Article • International Public Management Journal, July 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  150. Globalization and Governance Capacity: Explaining Divergence in National Forest Programs as Instances of "Next-Generation" Regulation in Canada and Europe

    Article • Governance, April 2006, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  151. The Art of Governance: Analyzing Management and Administration

    Article • Canadian Journal of Political Science, March 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Michael Howlett

  152. How Big Is a Policy Network? An Assessment Utilizing Data From Canadian Royal Commissions 1970-2000

    Article • Review of Policy Research, March 2006, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  153. Understanding the historical turn in the policy sciences: A critique of stochastic, narrative, path dependency and process-sequencing models of policy-making over time

    Article • Policy Sciences, March 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Howlett

  154. Deregulation and its Discontents

    Article • January 2006, Edward Elgar Publishing

    Michael Howlett

  155. Assessing Instrument Mixes through Program- and Agency-Level Data: Methodological Issues in Contemporary Implementation Research

    Article • Review of Policy Research, January 2006, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  156. Chapter 1. Modern Canadian Governance: Political-Administrative Styles and Executive Organization in Canada

    Article • January 2005, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  157. Chapter 13. Conclusion: Executive Institutional Development in Canada’s Provinces

    Article • January 2005, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  158. Executive Styles in Canada

    Article • January 2005, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  159. Ottawa and the provinces

    Article • January 2005, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  160. Policy Divergence as a Response to Weak International Regimes: The Formulation and Implementation of Natural Resource New Governance Arrangements in Europe and Canada

    Article • Policy and Society, January 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  161. (Not so) “Smart regulation”? Canadian shellfish aquaculture policy and the evolution of instrument choice for industrial development

    Article • Marine Policy, March 2004, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  162. Beyond Good and Evil in Policy Implementation: Instrument Mixes, Implementation Styles, and Second Generation Theories of Policy Instrument Choice

    Article • Policy and Society, January 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  163. Ottawa and the provinces

    Article • January 2003, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  164. Do Networks Matter? Linking Policy Network Structure to Policy Outcomes: Evidence from Four Canadian Policy Sectors 1990-2000

    Article • Canadian Journal of Political Science, June 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Michael Howlett

  165. Ottawa and the provinces

    Article • January 2002, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  166. Ottawa and the provinces

    Article • January 2002, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  167. Understanding National Administrative Styles and Their Impact Upon Administrative Reform: A Neo-Institutional Model and Analysis

    Article • Policy Organisation and Society, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  168. Privileging the sub-sector: critical sub-sectors and sectoral relationships in forest policy-making

    Article • Forest Policy and Economics, July 2001, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  169. Chapter 1. Introduction: Policy Regimes and Policy Change in the Canadian Forest Sector

    Article • January 2001, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  170. Canadian Forest Policy

    Article • January 2001, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  171. Chapter 2. The Business and Government Nexus: Principal Elements and Dynamics of the Canadian Forest Policy Regime

    Article • January 2001, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  172. Chapter 5. The Canadian Forest Industries: The Impacts of Globalization and Technological Change

    Article • January 2001, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  173. Chapter 13. The Federal Role in Canadian Forest Policy: From Territorial Landowner to International and Intergovernmental Coordinating Agent

    Article • January 2001, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  174. Beyond Legalism? Policy Ideas, Implementation Styles and Emulation-Based Convergence in Canadian and U.S. Environmental Policy

    Article • Journal of Public Policy, December 2000, Cambridge University Press

    Michael Howlett

  175. Managing the "hollow state": procedural policy instruments and modern governance

    Article • Canadian Public Administration, December 2000, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  176. A dialética da opinião pública: efeitos recíprocos da política pública e da opinião pública em sociedades democráticas contemporâneas

    Article • Opinião Pública, October 2000, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Michael Howlett

  177. Ottawa and the provinces

    Article • January 2000, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  178. Rejoinder to Stuart Soroka, “Policy Agenda-Setting Theory Revisited: A Critique of Howlett on Downs, Baumgartner and Jones, and Kingdon”

    Article • Canadian Journal of Political Science, December 1999, Cambridge University Press

    Michael Howlett

  179. Ottawa and the provinces

    Article • January 1999, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  180. Predictable and Unpredictable Policy Windows: Institutional and Exogenous Correlates of Canadian Federal Agenda-Setting

    Article • Canadian Journal of Political Science, September 1998, Cambridge University Press

    Michael Howlett

  181. Ottawa and the provinces

    Article • January 1998, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  182. Ottawa and the provinces

    Article • January 1998, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  183. Issue-Attention and Punctuated Equilibria Models Reconsidered: An Empirical Examination of the Dynamics of Agenda-Setting in Canada

    Article • Canadian Journal of Political Science, March 1997, Cambridge University Press

    Michael Howlett

  184. Ottawa and the provinces

    Article • January 1997, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  185. DO ideas matter? Policy network configurations and resistance to policy change in the Canadian forest sector

    Article • Canadian Public Administration, September 1995, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  186. Policy Paradigms and Policy Change

    Article • Policy Studies Journal, December 1994, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  187. The Judicialization of Canadian Environmental Policy, 1980–1990: A Test of the Canada-United States Convergence Thesis

    Article • Canadian Journal of Political Science, March 1994, Cambridge University Press

    Michael Howlett

  188. Post-Keynesianism in Canada in the 1990s: An Emerging Paradigm or a Hopeless Muddle?

    Article • The American Review of Canadian Studies, December 1993, Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  189. The Limits of Post-Keynesianism: Lessons from the Canadian Experience

    Article • Political Science, December 1993, SAGE Publications

    Michael Howlett

  190. Policy-Instrumente, Policy-Lernen und Privatisierung: Theoretische Erklärungen für den Wandel in der Instrumentenwahl

    Article • January 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Howlett

  191. The lessons of learning: Reconciling theories of policy learning and policy change

    Article • Policy Sciences, August 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Michael Howlett

  192. Policy Instruments, Policy Styles, and Policy Implementation. National Approaches to Theories of Instrument Choice

    Article • Policy Studies Journal, March 1991, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  193. Ottawa and the provinces

    Article • January 1991, University of Toronto Press (UTPress)

    Michael Howlett

  194. Canadian Political Economy: An Economic Introduction

    Article • Labour / Le Travail, January 1991, JSTOR

    Michael Howlett

  195. The Politics of Constitutional Change in a Federal System: Negotiating Section 92A of the Canadian Constitution Act (1982)

    Article • Publius The Journal of Federalism, January 1991, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Michael Howlett

  196. The Politics of Constitutional Change in a Federal System: Negotiating Section 92A of the Canadian Constitution Act (1982)

    Article • January 1991, CrossRef Test Account

    Michael Howlett

  197. The 1987 National Forest Sector Strategy and the search for a federal role in Canadian forest policy

    Article • Canadian Public Administration, December 1989, Wiley

    Michael Howlett

  198. Acts of Commission and Acts of Omission: Legal-Historical Research and the Intentions of Government in a Federal State

    Article • Canadian Journal of Political Science, June 1986, Cambridge University Press

    Michael Howlett

  199. A Supplement

    Article • Indian Journal of Public Administration, July 1983, SAGE Publications

    Michael Howlett

  200. Conceptualizing Public Policy

    Article • Nature

    Michael Howlett

  201. Stages Model of Policy Making

    Article • SAGE Publications

    Michael Howlett

  202. Re-thinking Governance in Public Policy

    Article • Nature

    Michael Howlett

  203. Governing Health Care in an Imperfect World

    Article • Nature

    Michael Howlett

  204. The policy-making process

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Michael Howlett

  205. Preface: The Evolution of De/Reregulation

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Michael Howlett

  206. Conclusion: The De/Reregulatory Cycle: Learning and Spill-over Effects in Regulatory Policy-Making

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Michael Howlett

  207. Reflections on Our Understanding of Policy Paradigms and Policy Change

    Article • Nature

    Michael Howlett

  208. Paradigm Construction and the Politics of Policy Anomalies

    Article • Nature

    Michael Howlett

  209. Rethinking Governance Capacity As Organizational and Systemic Resources

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  210. Patching versus packaging in policy formulation: assessing policy portfolio design

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Michael Howlett

  211. The elements of effective program design: a two-level analysis

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Michael Howlett

  212. Policy formulation: where knowledge meets power in the policy process

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Michael Howlett

  213. Patching vs Packaging: Complementary Effects, Goodness of Fit, Degrees of Freedom and Intentionality in Policy Portfolio Design

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  214. Policy tools and their role in policy formulation: dealing with procedural and substantive instruments

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Michael Howlett

  215. The 'Lumpiness' Thesis Revisited: The Venues of Policy Work and the Distribution of Analytical Techniques in Canada

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  216. The Supply of Policy and Management Consultancies to Canadian Federal Departments: New Evidence on Contract Size, Type and Structure

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  217. Policy formulation, policy advice and policy appraisal: the distribution of analytical tools

    Article • Edward Elgar Publishing

    Michael Howlett

  218. Policy Consulting in the USA: New Evidence from the Federal Procurement Data System - Next Generation

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Elsevier

    Michael Howlett

  219. Policy analysis in Canada:

    Article • JSTOR

    Michael Howlett

  220. Editors’ introduction to the series

    Article • JSTOR

    Michael Howlett