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. 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.

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
List of AbbreviationsList of TablesList of FiguresList of AppendicesForewordAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsDedication
1Introduction: The Family Tree of Policy LearningClaire A. Dunlop, Claudio M. Radaelli and Philipp Trein2Lessons Learned and Not Learned: Bibliometric Analysis of Policy LearningNihit Goyal and Michael Howlett3Learning in the European Commission's Climate and Renewable Energy Policy-MakingKatharina Rietig4Mechanisms of Policy Learning in the European Semester: Pension Reforms in BelgiumChristos Louvaris Fasois5Individual Learning Behaviour in Collaborative NetworksVidar Stevens6Learning from Practical Experience: Implementation Epistemic Communities in the European UnionDaniel Polman7The Rise and Demise of Epistemic Policy Learning: The Case of EU Biotechnology RegulationFalk Daviter8Public versus Non-Profit Housing in Canadian Provinces: Learning, History and Cost-Benefit AnalysisMaroine Bendaoud9Blocked Learning in Greece: The Case of Soft-GovernanceThenia Vagionaki10Structure, Agency and Policy Learning: Australia's Multinational Corporations' DilemmaTim Legrand11Median Problem Pressure and Policy Learning: An Exploratory Analysis of European CountriesPhilipp Trein12The Hard Case for Learning: Explaining the Diversity of Swiss Tobacco Advertisement BansJohanna Künzler13The Policy-Making of Investment Treaties in Brazil: Policy Learning in the Context of Late AdoptionHenrique Choer Moraes and Martino Maggetti14Interdependent Policy Learning: Contextual Diffusion of Active Labour Market PoliciesJan Helmdag and Kati Kuitto
Index