Michael Mintrom
Biographic Data
| ID | 969680 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Mintrom |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Mintrom |
| SIGNATURE | MINTROM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7163-3997 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2156 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
How SDG localization interacts with existing governance contexts
Non-Technical Summary The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), endorsed by national governments, rely on local actors for effective implementation. While the nonbinding nature of the SDG agreement allows for adaptability, it also leads to varying localization across contexts, impacted by existing governance arrangements. This study provides a structured analysis of existing studies, discussions, and evidence that examines how SDG localization in…
Anticipatory policy design for robots in public spaces
Narrative framing and adoption of evidence-based policy: Indonesia’s response to Covid-19
Sustainability Change Agents and Their Implementation Work: Lessons From Water Change Agents in Australia
Sustainability transitions require extensive coordination work. Surprisingly, we know little about the actions of those driving them. Our research objective was to identify sustainability change agents and study their implementation work in the Australian water sector. Using key informant interviews, we sought to understand the efforts of change agents driving two sustainability transitions. Our key findings are that change agents: (1) Interpret …
Policy coordination and development in a Vuca world
A growing bandwagon of commentators declare our collective existence is subject to volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. Welcome to the ‘VUCA world’. Since populations typically turn to governments for support when crises strike, there is merit in policy scholars paying close attention to the ‘VUCA world’ narrative. This article assesses the implications of the VUCA narrative for policy professionals charged with conducting policy c…
Co-design in policymaking: From an emerging to an embedded practice
Over the past decade, a range of efforts have been made to incorporate practices drawn from industrial and participatory design into elements of the public policymaking process. Our interest lies in the field of co-design in policymaking. This emerging field has seen considerable emphasis placed on informing policy development with knowledge and insights from those living with specific problems and existing policy settings. Following the extant l…
Contingent autonomy: Robotic encounters in an uncertain world
In this article, we develop a framework for robotic autonomy as contingent. We do so with an account of a series of online research workshops that asked people to design and test robot behaviours for a public space scenario of their choice, as a means to surface and discuss their understandings of robots. We show how, as people manipulated robots in a simulator, they came to understand the capacities and limits of robots in distinctive ways. Thin…
Securing government assistance for temporary migrants during the Covid-19 crisis: Analysing the Role of Policy Narratives
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments implemented social distancing requirements, lockdowns and stay-at-home orders. These caused unprecedented disruptions, especially in industries that often rely heavily on the labour of temporary migrants. As a result, temporary migrants were particularly disadvantaged by measures to safeguard population health. We critically scrutinise government policies related to temporary migrants in Aust…
From Social Protection to Social Investment in Australia and New Zealand
Australia and New Zealand both have well-established and comprehensive welfare states. Prompted partly by the social and economic consequences of the Great Depression, large-scale and often complex administrative systems and structures were created to provide social protection efficiently and effectively. This chapter discusses the nature, origins, and evolution of these institutional arrangements, focusing on the state’s various roles as a funde…
Cross‐scale, cross‐level and multi‐actor governance of transformations toward the Sustainable Development Goals: A review of common challenges and solutions
The importance of governance for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is uncontested. However, the design of effective governance arrangements to initiate and deliver the necessary transformations is complex, multi‐scale, and multi‐actor and many knowledge gaps remain. For would‐be reformers, a fundamental challenge arises because all transformative efforts must proceed, at least initially, within existing governance arrangements wh…
Mapping the discourse on evidence-based policy, artificial intelligence, and the ethical practice of policy analysis
Scholarship on evidence-based policy, a subset of the policy analysis literature, largely assumes information is produced and consumed by humans. However, due to the expansion of artificial intelligence in the public sector, debates no longer capture the full range concerns. Here, we derive a typology of arguments on evidence-based policy that performs two functions: taken separately, the categories serve as directions in which debates may procee…
Policy education in Australia and New Zealand: Towards a decolonized pedagogy
Policy Education in Australia and New Zealand has flourished in recent years. As governments in each country have sought to redress the legacies of colonization, more effort has been made to incorporate indigenous perspectives into policy development. However, considerably more work is required with respect to codifying good practice. Much more could also be done to give indigenous issues a central place in university-based policy teaching. Decol…
Covid-19 as a policy window: Policy entrepreneurs responding to violence against women
Policy windows emerge through alignment among specific policy problems, political forces, and proposed policy responses. During policy windows, it becomes possible for change to occur, driven by the agenda-setting of policy entrepreneurs. We consider how the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) created a significant policy window. As we do so, we seek to advance theorization of the conditions under which policy change occurs and when it sticks. We grou…
Leadership skills for regulators
Regulation plays a vital role in reducing harms and promoting public order. However, regulatory reform has been likened to painting the Sydney Harbour Bridge, it never ends. Coupling this reality with the increasing array of areas requiring regulation, there is an acute need for regulators to become more effective in how they work. We discuss the leadership skills needed to ensure regulators consistently contribute to the creation of public value…
Digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and bureaucratic transformation
The robotic production of spatiality: Predictability, partitioning, and connection
Robots are an increasing presence in our public spaces. Accordingly, in this paper, we make an argument for the importance of understanding how they produce spatiality by developing three robotic logics: predictability, partitioning, and connection. We show how the robotic bias towards orderly categories exists alongside processual accounts of spatiality, and how the forms of anticipatory knowability that robots require play out in the contingent…
Can AI transform public decision-making for sustainable development? An exploration of critical earth system governance questions
The inability of global governments to meaningfully progress sustainable development over the past three decades is deeply concerning. AI is increasingly framed as a solution for achieving such outcomes, sometimes uncritically. We argue that: 1) for AI to improve public decision-making, the conditions and factors influencing public decisions must be better understood and considered; 2) to mainstream AI-enabled insights, transformations of those c…
Where evidence‐based policy meets research impact
This paper explores the territory between the evidence‐based policymaking (EBPM) agenda and the research impact agenda. Although these two related agendas are typically considered in isolation, this paper provides an analysis dedicated to how they interact. It begins with a discussion outlining the origins of research impact and the use of evidence in policymaking. This is followed by an overview of the Australian policy context that shapes acade…
Imagining public space robots of the near-future
Policy narratives, localisation, and public justification: Responses to Covid-19
Globally, infection and death rates from COVID-19 vary dramatically. While states had broadly the same information about the virus at the start of the crisis, responses were very different. What caused such disparity in policy actions and outcomes? While various factors may account for divergent responses, we highlight the importance of narratives employed by key policy actors. First, we review the literature on policy narratives. We suggest it c…
A Research Agenda for the Study of Policy Entrepreneurs
The study of policy entrepreneurs as agents of change has developed greatly in recent years, supported by increasingly more sophisticated theoretical and empirical research. In this article, we first consider how the concept of the policy entrepreneur can be integrated into broader theories of the policy process, with particular focus on the compatibility of the concept with the narrative policy framework. We then propose that further empirical r…
The importance of policy narrative: Effective government responses to Covid-19
The spread of Covid-19 and the variety of government responses opens space for policy learning. Traditional policy analysis tools would lead us to explain policy variation using population size, ease of closing jurisdictional borders, governance arrangements, available resources, and system capacity. Following the approach of the Narrative Policy Framework, we suggest narrative has played a key role in the relative effectiveness of responses to C…
Policy entrepreneurship in Asia: The emerging research agenda
Policy entrepreneurs engage in collaborative action to promote broad societal changes. They distinguish themselves from other political actors through their willingness to promote policy innovations that are new within specific contexts. Research on policy entrepreneurs has burgeoned over the past three decades. In this special issue, we showcase new explorations of policy entrepreneurship in Asia. This overview essay reviews the concept of polic…
Royal commissions and policy influence
Royal commissions are established at the Commonwealth and state levels in Australia to investigate matters of significant public concern. These distinctive entities are highly respected both by government and the community. They are typically expected to produce reports that will have significant impact. Although a large number are created primarily to determine why specific events happened and where accountabilities lie, many are expected to gen…
So you want to be a policy entrepreneur?
Policy entrepreneurs are energetic actors who engage in collaborative efforts in and around government to promote policy innovations. Given the enormous challenges now facing humanity, the need is great for such actors to step forward and catalyze change processes. Academic research on policy entrepreneurs has flourished over recent years and, as a result, we know a lot about what makes for effective policy entrepreneurship. This article summariz…
Policy Entrepreneurs and the Diffusion of Innovation
Theory: In the literature on policy innovation diffusion, political scientists have paid little attention to how ideas for innovation gain prominence on government agendas. By considering the actions of policy entrepreneurs-political actors who promote policy ideas-we can gain important insights into the process of policy innovation and innovation diffusion. Hypotheses: Policy entrepreneurs constitute an identifiable class of political actors. Th…
Policy Entrepreneurship and Policy Change
This article reviews the concept of policy entrepreneurship and its use in explaining policy change. Although the activities of policy entrepreneurs have received close attention in several studies, the concept of policy entrepreneurship is yet to be broadly integrated within analyses of policy change. To facilitate more integration of the concept, we here show how policy entrepreneurship can be understood within more encompassing theorizations o…
Transnational Networks and Policy Diffusion: The Case of Gender Mainstreaming
How can we account for the global diffusion of remarkably similar policy innovations across widely differing nation-states? In an era characterized by heightened globalization and increasingly radical state restructuring, this question has become especially acute. Scholars of international relations offer a number of theoretical explanations for the cross-national convergence of ideas, institutions, and interests. We examine the proliferation of …
Policy Networks and Innovation Diffusion: The Case of State Education Reforms
Scholars in many fields have long recognized the role that social and professional networks play in the diffusion of innovations. However, among political scientists, an awkward separation has emerged between scholars investigating policy diffusion processes and those investigating policy networks and, more generally, the role of ideas in politics. In this article, we present a theoritical argument for integrating insights from policy networks st…
Advocacy Coalitions, Policy Entrepreneurs, and Policy Change
The advocacy coalition framework (AC) explains policy stability The policy entrepreneurship model (PE) explains dynamic policy change. Thus, augmenting the AC with insights from the PE provides a method of explaining a common empirical phenomenon: policy stability punctuated by dynamic policy change. This analytical strategy could be used to explore stability and change in many policy arenas. Here, we use it to interpret the background lo and dyn…
A Research Agenda for the Study of Policy Entrepreneurs
The study of policy entrepreneurs as agents of change has developed greatly in recent years, supported by increasingly more sophisticated theoretical and empirical research. In this article, we first consider how the concept of the policy entrepreneur can be integrated into broader theories of the policy process, with particular focus on the compatibility of the concept with the narrative policy framework. We then propose that further empirical r…
Institutional Arrangements and the Creation of Social Capital: The Effects of Public School Choice
While the possible decline in the level of social capital in the United States has received considerable attention by scholars such as Putnam and Fukuyama, less attention has been paid to the local activities of citizens that help define a nation's stock of social capital. Scholars have paid even less attention to how institutional arrangements affect levels of social capital. We argue that giving parents greater choice over the public schools th…
Establishing The Micro Foundations of a Macro Theory: Information, Movers, and the Competitive Local Market for Public Goods
The Tiebout model of competition in the local market for public goods is an important and controversial theory. The current debate revolves around the apparent disparity between macro empirical studies that show greater efficiency in the supply of public goods in polycentric regions compared to consolidated ones and micro evidence of widespread citizen-consumer ignorance, which has been used to argue that individual actions cannot plausibly lead …
Policy entrepreneurs and controversial science: Governing Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Policy entrepreneurs are political actors who seek policy changes that shift the status quo in given areas of public policy. This contribution examines the actions of policy entrepreneurs who have sought government funding and favourable regulation to advance human embryonic stem cell research. Those policy entrepreneurs have faced significant opposition owing to the morality issues at stake. Placing the actions of those policy entrepreneurs in a…
Policy entrepreneurs and promotion of Australian state knowledge economies
Policy entrepreneurs seek to shift the status quo in given areas of public policy. In doing so, they work closely with others, and their activities call for high levels of political skill. This article examines the actions of policy entrepreneurs who promoted the development of knowledge economies in two Australian states: Queensland and Victoria. During the past two decades, national and sub-national governments around the world have sought to n…
The Empirical Evidence for Citizen Information and a Local Market for Public Goods
In their 1993 article in this Review , Paul Teske, Mark Schneider, Michael Mintrom, and Samuel Best sought to establish the microfoundations for a model of a competitive market for public services between local governments in polycentric regions. An important part of their model focused on subgroups of informed citizens, especially recent movers. Theoretical analysis was supplemented by an empirical study of the factors shaping accuracy of Long I…
The State-Local Nexus in Policy Innovation Diffusion: The Case of School Choice
Our knowledge of how policy innovations diffuse in federal systems could be enhanced by paying greater attention to the behavior of policy entrepreneurs. This study shows how policy entrepreneurs helped stimulate the diffusion of state school-choice plans by collecting and generating evidence of workability of this innovation. Importantly, these policy entrepreneurs have often used evidence from local experiments to promote state policy change. T…
Policy narratives, localisation, and public justification: Responses to Covid-19
Globally, infection and death rates from COVID-19 vary dramatically. While states had broadly the same information about the virus at the start of the crisis, responses were very different. What caused such disparity in policy actions and outcomes? While various factors may account for divergent responses, we highlight the importance of narratives employed by key policy actors. First, we review the literature on policy narratives. We suggest it c…
Policy entrepreneurs and problem framing: The case of climate change
Policy entrepreneurs are energetic actors who work with others in and around policymaking venues to promote significant policy change. After several decades of study, we know a lot about what policy entrepreneurs do, and how to assess their effectiveness in given policymaking contexts. Here, we review common practices of policy entrepreneurs, emphasising their problem framing activities and their role in catalysing large-scale behavioural change …
Digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and bureaucratic transformation
Imagining public space robots of the near-future
Creating Public Value: Tightening Connections Between Policy Design and Public Management
Policy design and public management should be tightly connected, so implemented public policies achieve intended outcomes. Yet policy designers often pursue their activities with limited awareness of how citizens and service managers experience current public programs. A focus on creating public value offers a way to tighten the connection between policy design and public management. Recent discussions of public value have emphasized three aspect…
Competitive Federalism and the Governance of Controversial Science
Tensions between the United States government and state governments increased during the Bush Administration, 2001–2008. Blame was typically placed on the Administration's conservative policy preferences. This article analyzes how the issue of stem cell research was managed during those years in Washington, DC and how the states responded. The case highlights contradictions in the Bush Administration's brand of conservatism, how this promoted int…
Design Thinking in Policymaking Processes: Opportunities and Challenges
Design thinking has the potential to improve problem definition and mechanism design in policymaking processes. By promoting greater understanding of how citizens experience government services, design thinking can support public managers who desire to enhance public value. In Australia, as elsewhere, design thinking currently remains separated from mainstream policymaking efforts. This article clarifies the essence of design thinking and its app…
Global university alliances and the creation of collaborative advantage
The past two decades have seen the development of many global university alliances. Some alliances have taken a bilateral form, others are multilateral. In a period of increasing competition among universities, such alliances represent a curious form of cooperation. They have become more common just as global competition for academic talent has been increasing, rankings of universities have become more sophisticated, and universities have sought …
Mapping the discourse on evidence-based policy, artificial intelligence, and the ethical practice of policy analysis
Scholarship on evidence-based policy, a subset of the policy analysis literature, largely assumes information is produced and consumed by humans. However, due to the expansion of artificial intelligence in the public sector, debates no longer capture the full range concerns. Here, we derive a typology of arguments on evidence-based policy that performs two functions: taken separately, the categories serve as directions in which debates may procee…
Covid-19 as a policy window: Policy entrepreneurs responding to violence against women
Policy windows emerge through alignment among specific policy problems, political forces, and proposed policy responses. During policy windows, it becomes possible for change to occur, driven by the agenda-setting of policy entrepreneurs. We consider how the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) created a significant policy window. As we do so, we seek to advance theorization of the conditions under which policy change occurs and when it sticks. We grou…
Market Organizations And Deliberative Democracy: Choice and Voice in Public Service Delivery
Two distinct approaches have been proposed for tackling bureaucratic inefficiency and insensitivity. One replaces political control and government supply with citizen/consumer sovereignty and market forces. The other supports greater citizen involvement in public decision making. But market forces and citizen participation can be mutually reinforcing. The author shows this by comparing the practices of charter schools and traditional public schoo…
Higher Education Policy Change in Europe: Academic Research Funding and the Impact Agenda
In the policy period following the Lisbon Strategy of 2000, European governments increasingly regard universities, and the research they produce, as key to enhancing economic performance. With this heightened respect for the value of university-based research, comes an impatience to see returns on the public investments made. We analyze how policy is being used to influence the academic research process through the evaluations and funding allocat…
Education Reform and Accountability Issues in an Intergovernmental Context
Since the early 1980s, widespread expressions of concern about public education in the United States have been accompanied by various proposals for improving public school performance. This article develops a conceptual framework for analyzing education reform and accountability issues in an intergovernmental context. The writers then identify and discuss common themes in five prominent education reform efforts in the United States: (1) the promu…
Federal Preemption and State Regulation of Transportation and Telecommunications
Transportation and telecommunications are two of the most important infrastructural industries in the American economy. As these industries are so vital and because they exhibit characteristics that have frequently rendered them quasi-monopolistic, their growth has been accompanied by state andfederal regulation. We document how the imposition ofregulation has led to continual conflicts over the extent to which federal regulation should take prec…
Why Efforts to Equalize School Funding Have Failed: Towards a Positive Theory
Why Efforts to Equalize School Funding Have Failed: Towards a Positive Theory
With the growth of the suburbs and the strengthening relationship between income and household location, large differences have emerged in the values of the local property tax bases that fund public schools. Since the 1970s, court rulings have led states to attempt to equalize school funding by increasing state support. But large funding differences remain. While these differences and the impact of equalization efforts have been analyzed at lengt…
Establishing The Micro Foundations of a Macro Theory: Information, Movers, and the Competitive Local Market for Public Goods
The Tiebout model of competition in the local market for public goods is an important and controversial theory. The current debate revolves around the apparent disparity between macro empirical studies that show greater efficiency in the supply of public goods in polycentric regions compared to consolidated ones and micro evidence of widespread citizen-consumer ignorance, which has been used to argue that individual actions cannot plausibly lead …
The economic theory of regulation and trucking deregulation: Shifting to the state level
Public Entrepreneurs: Agents for Change in American Government
Seizing opportunities, inventing new products, transforming markets--entrepreneurs are an important and well-documented part of the private sector landscape. Do they have counterparts in the public sphere? The authors argue that they do, and test their argument by focusing on agents of dynamic political change in suburbs across the United States, where much of the entrepreneurial activity in American politics occurs. The public entrepreneurs they…
The Empirical Evidence for Citizen Information and a Local Market for Public Goods
In their 1993 article in this Review , Paul Teske, Mark Schneider, Michael Mintrom, and Samuel Best sought to establish the microfoundations for a model of a competitive market for public services between local governments in polycentric regions. An important part of their model focused on subgroups of informed citizens, especially recent movers. Theoretical analysis was supplemented by an empirical study of the factors shaping accuracy of Long I…
Advocacy Coalitions, Policy Entrepreneurs, and Policy Change
The advocacy coalition framework (AC) explains policy stability The policy entrepreneurship model (PE) explains dynamic policy change. Thus, augmenting the AC with insights from the PE provides a method of explaining a common empirical phenomenon: policy stability punctuated by dynamic policy change. This analytical strategy could be used to explore stability and change in many policy arenas. Here, we use it to interpret the background lo and dyn…
The State-Local Nexus in Policy Innovation Diffusion: The Case of School Choice
Our knowledge of how policy innovations diffuse in federal systems could be enhanced by paying greater attention to the behavior of policy entrepreneurs. This study shows how policy entrepreneurs helped stimulate the diffusion of state school-choice plans by collecting and generating evidence of workability of this innovation. Importantly, these policy entrepreneurs have often used evidence from local experiments to promote state policy change. T…
Education Reform and Accountability Issues in an Intergovernmental Context
Since the early 1980s, widespread expressions of concern about public education in the United States have been accompanied by various proposals for improving public school performance. This article develops a conceptual framework for analyzing education reform and accountability issues in an intergovernmental context. The writers then identify and discuss common themes in five prominent education reform efforts in the United States: (1) the promu…
Policy Entrepreneurs and the Diffusion of Innovation
Theory: In the literature on policy innovation diffusion, political scientists have paid little attention to how ideas for innovation gain prominence on government agendas. By considering the actions of policy entrepreneurs-political actors who promote policy ideas-we can gain important insights into the process of policy innovation and innovation diffusion. Hypotheses: Policy entrepreneurs constitute an identifiable class of political actors. Th…
Institutional Arrangements and the Creation of Social Capital: The Effects of Public School Choice
While the possible decline in the level of social capital in the United States has received considerable attention by scholars such as Putnam and Fukuyama, less attention has been paid to the local activities of citizens that help define a nation's stock of social capital. Scholars have paid even less attention to how institutional arrangements affect levels of social capital. We argue that giving parents greater choice over the public schools th…
Policy Networks and Innovation Diffusion: The Case of State Education Reforms
Scholars in many fields have long recognized the role that social and professional networks play in the diffusion of innovations. However, among political scientists, an awkward separation has emerged between scholars investigating policy diffusion processes and those investigating policy networks and, more generally, the role of ideas in politics. In this article, we present a theoritical argument for integrating insights from policy networks st…
Strategic Actors, Institutions, and Interpretations of the Policy Process
Policy Design for Local Innovation: The Effects of Competition in Public Schooling
State governments have recently adopted many policies creating competition in service provision. These policies typically are expected to reduce costs and improve quality through organizational innovation. I present an analysis of one such initiative—the creation of charter schools. Using evidence from a survey-based study comparing charter schools and traditional public schools, I explore the relationship between competition and organizational i…
The Grassroots of Democracy: A Comparative Study of Competition and Its Impact in American Cities in the 1990s . Norman R. Luttbeg
Transnational Networks and Policy Diffusion: The Case of Gender Mainstreaming
How can we account for the global diffusion of remarkably similar policy innovations across widely differing nation-states? In an era characterized by heightened globalization and increasingly radical state restructuring, this question has become especially acute. Scholars of international relations offer a number of theoretical explanations for the cross-national convergence of ideas, institutions, and interests. We examine the proliferation of …
Market Organizations And Deliberative Democracy: Choice and Voice in Public Service Delivery
Two distinct approaches have been proposed for tackling bureaucratic inefficiency and insensitivity. One replaces political control and government supply with citizen/consumer sovereignty and market forces. The other supports greater citizen involvement in public decision making. But market forces and citizen participation can be mutually reinforcing. The author shows this by comparing the practices of charter schools and traditional public schoo…
Making a Market in Education
Regulation in the States
Regulation in the States. By Paul Teske. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2004. 272p. $52.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. Government regulation of economic activity is endemic to modern society; a vast array of everyday transactions are affected—and shaped—by rules and requirements imposed by governments. The intentions behind such regulations are typically assumed to be benign. Through regulation, governments can rectify problems caused by d…
Innovative state strategies in the Antipodes: Enhancing the ability of governments to govern in the global context
Australia and New Zealand began engaging with the globalised economic environment from the 1960s through a gradual process of adaptation. Both countries began dismantling the 'protective state', spawning new governance practices and some new institutions. While the core political institutions of Westminster governance remained largely unchanged, they have proved particularly resilient and adaptive to change. The most pronounced impact of globalis…
Public Policy: The Competitive Framework ‐ by Ewen J. Michael
Ewen Michael has produced a valuable overview of the rationales for public policy and the factors shaping policy design within advanced industrial democracies. The book draws on standard microeconomics for developing an interpretation of economic and social organisation
Managing the research function of the university: Pressures and Dilemmas
How should universities manage their research function? Today, research‐based knowledge is viewed widely as fundamental to economic advancement. As a result, universities everywhere are facing pressure to rethink their research activities. A general model of the research process is presented here. Linkages are drawn between that process, other university activities, and factors that shape the broader operating context of the university. The model…
Public policy and genomic science: Managing dynamic change
Developments in genomic science and its applications raise significant public policy issues. Restrictive governance regimes can inhibit progress that has the potential to significantly enhance social and economic outcomes. But permissive regimes run the risk of mistakes, inappropriate management practices, and accidents having costly effects on human populations, various agricultural activities, and ecosystems. This article provides an overview o…
Governing controversial science: Lessons from stem cell research
Developments in genomic science and biotechnology are creating new governance challenges concerning funding, oversight, and regulation of the underlying science and its applications. Among forms of genomics and biotechnology, human stem cell research has been one of the most controversial. It holds great promise for the development of medical therapies, but the link between human reproduction and research on embryonic stem cells has fuelled serio…
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