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Frédéric Varone
Researcher at University of Geneva
Publications - 199
Citations - 4634
Frédéric Varone is an academic researcher from University of Geneva. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public policy & Public service motivation. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 193 publications receiving 4152 citations. Previous affiliations of Frédéric Varone include Université catholique de Louvain & Université de Montréal.
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The Public Policy Process
Michael Hill,Frédéric Varone +1 more
TL;DR: The Public Policy Process as discussed by the authors is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process by which public policy is made and explains clearly the importance of the relationship between theoretical and practical aspects of policy making, giving a thorough overview of the people and organisations involved in the process.
The shadow of hierarchy and new modes of governance: sectoral governance and democratic government
Adrienne Héritier,Dirk Lehmkuhl,Christian de Visscher,Olivier Maiscocq,Frédéric Varone,David Coen,Mark Thatcher,Burkard Eberlein,Leonor Moral Soriano,Sandra Eckert,Stijn Smismans +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, a special issue about sectoral governance in the shadow of hierarchy focuses on two sets of questions: do new modes of sectoral government in themselves contribute to the efficacy of policymaking or do they require the shadow-of-hierarchical decisions in order to deal effectively with the problems they are supposed to solve?
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A General Empirical Law of Public Budgets: A Comparative Analysis
Bryan D. Jones,Frank R. Baumgartner,Christian Breunig,Christopher Wlezien,Stuart Soroka,Martial Foucault,Abel François,Christoffer Green-Pedersen,Chris Koski,Peter John,Peter B. Mortensen,Frédéric Varone,Stefaan Walgrave +12 more
TL;DR: The distribution of budget changes in many western democracies follows a non-Gaussian distribution, the power function, which implies that budget changes are highly incremental yet occasionally are punctuated by large budget changes as discussed by the authors.
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Treating Policy Brokers Seriously: Evidence from the Climate Policy
Karin Ingold,Frédéric Varone +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, two theoretical hypotheses that complement the advocacy coalition framework (ACF) were proposed to explain policy brokers' influence on policy process and change in the Swiss climate policy (1990-2008).
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Institutional Resource Regimes: Towards sustainability through the combination of property-rights theory and policy analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, a combination of approaches from the political sciences and institutional economics is proposed to identify the most relevant regulatory dimensions which can explain the (un)sustainable uses of resources.