Edited by Claudio M. Radaelli, Professor of Comparative Public Policy, Florence School of Transnational Governance (EUI), Italy and Bishoy L. Zaki, Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Department of Public Governance and Management, Ghent University, Belgium

‘(How) do policy actors learn? This question has always been important, but more so in the current climate of democratic backsliding that threatens the integrity of public policies. This volume provides a comprehensive account of policy learning both as a theoretical concept and in practice in policy domains, a must-read for all scholars of public policy.’

• Contents1 Learning in public policy: mapping the field 1Claudio M. Radaelli and Bishoy L. ZakiPART I GOVERNANCE2 Pragmatism, learning, and democracy 15Christopher Ansell3 Experimentalist governance 25Bernardo Rangoni4 Abductive reasoning 37M. Ramesh and Michael HowlettPART II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS5 Advocacy Coalition Framework’s theory of policy-oriented learning 50Christopher M. Weible, Raya K. Castronovo, Anna M. Crawford,Adam D. Henry, Katherine E. Imhoff, Karin Ingold and Daniel Nohrstedt6 Policy learning and the Multiple Streams Framework 61Malte Möck and Peter H. Feindt7 Recursive narrative learning 72Aaron Smith-Walter, Rachel McGovern and Michael D. JonesPART III POLICY CYCLE8 Policy design 91Saba Siddiki and Tomás Olivier9 Policy implementation and learning 101Giliberto Capano10 Policy learning from policy evaluations? 113Niklas A. Andersen and Valérie PattynPART IV RESOURCES AND CONSTRAINTS11 Knowledge and policy learning 126Giuseppe Cannata12 Emotions and learning in public policy 138Zsolt Boda13 Learning in crises and disasters 149Thomas A. Birkland, Rob A. DeLeo and Kristin Taylor14 Uncertainty and advisory groups 160Sreeja NairPART V CAUSALITY AND MECHANISMS15 Peeling back the layers of policy learning: connections between individualand collective learning 173Tanya Heikkila, Andrea K. Gerlak and Adrienne Brown16 Beliefs updating through information processing 188Matthew C. Nowlin17 Transfer and learning: two complementary policy phenomena 200David P. Dolowitz and Lawan A. Babamaragana18 Policy learning and policy change 211Laura Mastroianni and Daniel Béland19 Parallel and sequential loops 225Thenia Vagionaki and Philipp Trein20 Measurement 236Jonathan C. KamkhajiPART VI INSTITUTIONS AND STRUCTURES OF LEARNING21 Institutional theory and policy learning 248B. Guy Peters22 Policy learning in authoritarian contexts 258Caroline Schlaufer, Annemieke van den Dool and Vera Axyonova23 Informality 270Alexander Mesarovich24 Learning and assimilation in regulatory agencies 284Osmany Porto de Oliveira and Bruno Queiroz Cunha25 Epistemic communities 294Peter M. Haas26 Local government 304Kristin Taylor, Elizabeth A. Albright and Deserai AndersonPART VII POLICY DOMAINS27 Climate policy 314Katharina Rietig28 Migration policy 326Peter Scholten29 Transnational education 337Marina Cino Pagliarello30 LGBTQ+ politics and policies 350Claire A. Dunlop