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

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Exploring the role of failure in socio-technical transitions research

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The anatomy of failed historical transitions: An approach to expand the study of socio-technical change

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Dynamics of short-term and long-term decision-making in English housing associations: A study of using systems thinking to inform policy design

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Making Sense of Hospital Project MisPerformance: Over Budget, Late, Time and Time Again—Why? And What Can Be Done About It?

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Wicked problems and creeping crises: A framework for analyzing governance challenges to addressing environmental land-use problems

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REDD+ policy design and policy learning: The emergence of an integrated landscape approach in Vietnam

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Meaning and power in the design and development of policy experiments

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Rewilding in practice: Projects and policy

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

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2025.103667openalex-snapshot

The intensity of China’s climate change policy from 1992 to 2023: Measurement, evolution and consequence

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2022.103528openalex-snapshot

Whose is this street? Actors and conflicts in the governance of pedestrianisation processes

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.rset.2024.100081openalex-snapshot

The failure of micro-hydro technology: A case study of the Banyubiru project in Central Java, Indonesia

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.shaw.2024.08.001openalex-snapshot

Multi-level Hierarchical Structure Analysis of Influencing Factors of Coal Mine Managers' Blame Avoidance Behavior

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115483openalex-snapshot

Building care amid navigating liability risks: The possibility of policy-driven care in China's drug-control arena

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123654openalex-snapshot

Risks of policy failure in direct R&D support

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105723openalex-snapshot

The right to fail? Problematizing failure discourse in international conservation

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781009127868openalex-snapshot

Disrupted Governance

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781009497015openalex-snapshot

Bad Public Policy

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108592437openalex-snapshot

Hyper-active Governance: How Governments Manage the Politics of Expertise

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108592437.001openalex-snapshot

The ‘Cult of the Expert’

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108592437.002openalex-snapshot

Managing the ‘Expert–Politics Nexus’

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Defence

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Empowerment

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Inclusion

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Defend, Empower and Include

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108592437.007openalex-snapshot

Frenetically Standing Still

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108592437.008openalex-snapshot

Experts, Politics and Co-Production

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108592437.009openalex-snapshot

Data Collection

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108592437.010openalex-snapshot

Hyper-active Governance and Social Acceleration

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108592437.011openalex-snapshot

Crosstabs of Media Coverage of Herceptin

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Notes

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Index

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Preface

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When Public Health Goes Wrong: Toward a New Concept of Public Health Error

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50722-8_4openalex-snapshot

Blame Avoidance

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1057/s41311-026-00814-0openalex-snapshot

Learning to talk, talking about learning: migration discourse in Euro-Mediterranean relations

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-05636-8openalex-snapshot

Hiding behind the curtain: performance information and public officials’ policy instrument preferences in visible and invisible domains

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1057/s42214-022-00141-0openalex-snapshot

The role of corporations in addressing non-market institutional voids during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of an emerging economy

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.25352.liopenalex-snapshot

Performing innocence and integrity

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1075/ps.21063.liuopenalex-snapshot

Blame-avoiding strategies for a digital scandal

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2023.2193066openalex-snapshot

Policy Mortality and UK Government Education Policy for Schools in England

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/00220620.2020.1719391openalex-snapshot

Exploring definitions of success in Northern Territory Indigenous higher education policy

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2025.2546370openalex-snapshot

Reinforcing the Path: The Paradox of Failed Reform in India’s Minority Policies (2004–2024)

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2018.1557134openalex-snapshot

Assessing policy success and failure: targets, aims and processes

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2018.1557622openalex-snapshot

Political demand and policy advice: a framework for analysis

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2021.1989395openalex-snapshot

Pathways to policy failure: evidence from Puerto Rico’s 2011 tax reform

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2019.1632911openalex-snapshot

Policy learning from crisis in financial regulation and supervision: comparative analysis of Estonia, Latvia and Sweden

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2017.1299177openalex-snapshot

Understanding Impact in Policy Advisory Systems: The Australian Case of the “Thinker in Residence”

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2019.1644519openalex-snapshot

The Politics of Discontinuity and Its Medium Term Policy Outcomes: Evidence from Ghana

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2021.1931315openalex-snapshot

Crisismanship under the Most Severe Sanctions: Lessons Learned from the Iranian Government’s Responses to the COVID-19

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2021.2001012openalex-snapshot

The Failure to Learn Lessons from Policy Failures in Developing Countries? The Case of Electricity Privatization in Ghana

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2022.2051327openalex-snapshot

Barriers to Converting Applied Social Psychology to Bettering the Human Condition

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2020.1849573openalex-snapshot

Policy failure or f***up: homelessness and welfare reform in England

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2021.1879999openalex-snapshot

Policy movement in housing research: a critical interpretative synthesis

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2025.2562273openalex-snapshot

Between public interest and the market: the rise and fall of the Home Plus program in Poland

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2022.2065616openalex-snapshot

Intelligence scandals: a comparative analytical model and lessons learned from the test case of North Macedonia

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2019.1621122openalex-snapshot

Going bust two ways? Epistemic communities and the study of urban policy failure

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2020.1864333openalex-snapshot

Successfully navigating the fiscal challenges of the age of the aged: municipal government in Japan

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2022.2039128openalex-snapshot

The temporal dependence of public policy evaluation: the case of local government amalgamation

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2019.1689635openalex-snapshot

Understanding issue salience, social inequality and the (non) appointment of UK public inquiries: a new research agenda

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2026.2671248openalex-snapshot

What is in the name? Distinguishing the role of financial, business and policy controllers

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2022.2092724openalex-snapshot

Mechanisms influencing mainstreaming of adaptation in spatial development: case studies in three Dutch municipalities

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2025.2605655openalex-snapshot

Participation rules and policy outcomes in China’s authoritarian-hybrid governance: evidence from rural environmental programs

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2020.1741769openalex-snapshot

The party politics of learning from failure: the German Greens and the lessons drawn from the 2013 general election

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/09654313.2026.2733504openalex-snapshot

Is the EU textile waste directive a policy failure? Learning from Swedish and German insights

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/10228195.2018.1493613openalex-snapshot

Dominant Language Constellations in Multilingual Repertoires: Implications for Language-in-Education Policy and Practices in South Africa

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2021.1879798openalex-snapshot

Failure seems to be the hardest word to say

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2021.1998343openalex-snapshot

The principle of subsidiarity and COVID-19: how a moral assessment of public policy success can contribute to learning

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/10999922.2016.1225481openalex-snapshot

Symbol and Substance in Local Government Workforce Development: First Source Hiring Programs

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2015.1127272openalex-snapshot

Telling stories of failure: narrative constructions of foreign policy fiascos

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2015.1127273openalex-snapshot

Revisiting the study of policy failures

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2015.1127274openalex-snapshot

Resilient blunderers: credit rating fiascos and rating agencies’ institutionalized status as private authorities

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2015.1127277openalex-snapshot

‘Fiasco prime ministers’: leaders’ beliefs and personality traits as possible causes for policy fiascos

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2015.1128228openalex-snapshot

Studying fiascos: bringing public and foreign policy together

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2017.1291709openalex-snapshot

Covert action failure and fiasco construction: William Hague’s 2011 Libyan venture

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2017.1325920openalex-snapshot

Failing forward in EU migration policy? EU integration after the 2015 asylum and migration crisis

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2020.1839536openalex-snapshot

Between rule-makers and rule-takers: policy change as the interaction of design, compliance and feedback

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2210186openalex-snapshot

The UK government’s Northern Ireland policy after Brexit: a retreat to unilateralism and muscular unionism

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2280678openalex-snapshot

Learning mode misfits in policy learning: typology, case study and lessons learnt

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/13608746.2018.1491103openalex-snapshot

The Political Economy of Central Banking in Turkey: The Macroprudential Policy Regime and Self-Undermining Feedback

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2016.1244947openalex-snapshot

Fiscal Policy Learning from Crisis: Comparative Analysis of the Baltic Countries

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2023.2248031openalex-snapshot

Special Issue: Policy Innovation in the Global South and South–North Policy Learning

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2017.1375249openalex-snapshot

Instrument constituencies and public policy-making: an introduction

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/14494035.2020.1783786openalex-snapshot

The Turkish state’s responses to existential COVID-19 crisis

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2024.2312412openalex-snapshot

Journalists’ Apprehension of Being Politically Correct: A Source of Racial Stereotyping of Street Harassment Perpetrators in the Press

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Grafted or crafted: federal endeavors in East Africa and East Asia

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2023.2281739openalex-snapshot

Critical juncture, learning and state capacity-in-motion: pathway cases in Asia

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/14683849.2019.1601563openalex-snapshot

What did the Turkish climate movement learn from a global policy failure? Frame shift after the Copenhagen Climate Summit

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2022.2038063openalex-snapshot

The policy coordinator role of national development banks in scaling climate finance: Evidence from the renewable energy sector

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2026.2685255openalex-snapshot

Negativity trumps source: exploring the perceptions of AI-advice among public officials

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Unlocking the transformative potential of design: reflections from practice on navigating barriers to designing for societal transformation

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What ‘Works’ in Environmental Policy-Design? Lessons from Experiments in the Australian and Dutch Building Sectors

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

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/15309576.2024.2386273openalex-snapshot

Where Do Citizens Place Blame for Service Delivery Failure? A Closer Look at Public-Private Partnerships

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/15309576.2026.2615943openalex-snapshot

Government-Imposed Reorganization and Public Service Turnaround: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Prison Sector in England and Wales

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2017.1405051openalex-snapshot

Analysing opposition–government blame games: argument models and strategic maneuvering

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/17516234.2018.1493768openalex-snapshot

Framework or metaphor? Analysing the status of policy learning in the policy sciences

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2023.2283994openalex-snapshot

Opposition “strategy mobility” – a dimension still missing in the critical policy mobility literature

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2021.1957495openalex-snapshot

Governing ‘levelling-up’ in the UK: challenges and prospects

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/21650020.2024.2429390openalex-snapshot

“Stakeholderism” in urban transport planning in Greater Accra Metropolitan Area: a reality or glorified mantra?

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/25741292.2020.1725366openalex-snapshot

Anti-money laundering: The world's least effective policy experiment? Together, we can fix it

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1080/25741292.2025.2529624openalex-snapshot

Beyond evidentiary uncertainty: mitigating political risks in policy designs

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1081/e-epap3-120053321openalex-snapshot

Ethics: Crisis Management

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orae036openalex-snapshot

Can Policy Succeed through Inactivity? A Case Study of UK Foreign Policy after the Gulf War

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197618066.003.0010openalex-snapshot

The Discursive Construction of Morality in Political Blame Games

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197788592.001.0001openalex-snapshot

Defending the Status Quo

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197788592.002.0004openalex-snapshot

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197788592.002.0005openalex-snapshot

Dedication

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197788592.003.0001openalex-snapshot

Introduction

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Resistance to Gender-Equitable Policy Change

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197788592.003.0003openalex-snapshot

Agenda Setting

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197788592.003.0004openalex-snapshot

Policy Formulation

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197788592.003.0005openalex-snapshot

Decision-Making

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197788592.003.0006openalex-snapshot

Implementation

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197788592.003.0007openalex-snapshot

The Permanent Quota and Variations in Resistance Across Parties

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197788592.003.0008openalex-snapshot

Conclusion

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List of Interviewees

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The State of the Field

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Caught in the Middle?

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198896388.003.0021openalex-snapshot

Attributions of Blame and Credit in Policy-Making

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198825098.013.21openalex-snapshot

The Leadership and Management of Public Services Reform in Scotland

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198843061.013.3openalex-snapshot

Foreign Policy Analysis and Public Policy

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puad029openalex-snapshot

Blame avoidance and credit-claiming dynamics in government policy communications: evidence from leadership tweets in four OECD countries during the 2020–2022 COVID-19 pandemic

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puae027openalex-snapshot

Understanding policy integration through an integrative capacity framework

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/polsoc/puaf002openalex-snapshot

Kicked cans and poison pills: third generation policy advisory system studies and the management of quality political advice

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/ppmgov/gvae001openalex-snapshot

Measuring Policy Learning: Challenges and Good Practices

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvaf033openalex-snapshot

Failures in impact evaluation

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxae029openalex-snapshot

The Struggle for Gender Equality: Policy Implementation in Argentina’s Security Forces

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1097/jxx.0000000000000785openalex-snapshot

Nurse practitioner practice under the COVID-19 public health emergency: Did policy change persist?

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1108/ijpl-05-2022-0028openalex-snapshot

Public sector leadership during the COVID-19 crisis in Ghana

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1108/jaoc-11-2020-0188openalex-snapshot

Stakeholder pressure as a driver of risk management practices in public administrations

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1108/jitlp-03-2017-0010openalex-snapshot

Finding beneficiaries: trade adjustment assistance system in South Korea

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1108/josm-04-2016-0092openalex-snapshot

When public services fail: a research agenda on public service failure

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1108/sc-07-2017-0028openalex-snapshot

The legitimacy of offender management programmes in a post-TR landscape

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1109/istafrica.2016.7530654openalex-snapshot

Analysing barriers in the implementation of national ICT policy: Case of Malawi

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12064openalex-snapshot

Streams and stages: Reconciling Kingdon and policy process theory

inferred← citeshttps://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12852openalex-snapshot

Re‐thinking policy and (multi‐level) governance failure: What went wrong and why in the reception of Ukrainian refugees in Italy?

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