The field of policy learning is characterised by a proliferation of concepts and lack of systematic findings. However, the literature has struggled to move beyond the seminal contributions made more than three decades ago however. We argue that different strands in the literature have failed to...

This article provides advice on how to meet the practical challenges of experimental methods within public management research. We focus on lab, field, and survey experiments. For each of these types of experiments we outline the major challenges and limitations encountered when implementing...

Procedures for the ex ante assessment of public policies are currently in vogue across the OECD. Their design is typically informed by an instrumentally rational model of problem solving, which assumes that knowledge is collected, evaluated and then translated straightforwardly into 'better...