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Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems

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This book discusses the development of public policy levels, methods, and units in the post-modern era, as well as some of the aspects of policy formation and change that have changed over the years.
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This book surveys a wealth of British, American, and Canadian studies of public policy making, and proposes a model of the policy process which identifies relevant forces at work in the policy process and aids in the understanding of policy change and development.

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Overcoming the tragedy of super wicked problems: constraining our future selves to ameliorate global climate change

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What about the politics? Sustainable development, transition management, and long term energy transitions

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the contribution that transition management can make to such processes, emphasize the irreducibly political character of governance for sustainable development, and suggest that the long-term transformation of energy systems will prove to be a messy, conflictual, and highly disjointed process.
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Reconceptualising the 'policy mix' for innovation

TL;DR: The authors argue that the emergence of the "policy mix" concept into common use in the field of innovation policy studies provides a window of opportunity to reconsider some basic and often hidden assumptions in order to better deal with a messy and complex, multi-level, mult-actor reality.
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The New Corporate Social Responsibility

TL;DR: The last half decade has witnessed a remarkable resurgence of attention among practitioners and scholars to understand the ability of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to address environmental and social problems as mentioned in this paper.