Spending your morning being suspiciously followed by a mountain goat thingie is quite confusing .

If this isn’t the perfect place for an academics writing/hiking retreat, then no other place is !

Check out the highlights of our special issue on policy learning and policy innovation free to read for a couple of months. Co-edited with Claudio M Radaelli Claire Dunlop Ellen Wayenberg

Goodbye #Switzerland, you’ve been wonderful as always!

Open Access Special Issue in Austral J Pub Admin on Experts and Policy Advice. Eds Craft Head & Howlett. Articles on new challenges, contestability, global nexuses, policy shops, policy modernization initiatives, Iran & Morocco 𝚖𝚒𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚎𝚕 𝚑𝚘𝚠𝚕𝚎𝚝𝚝 🉑 Jonathan Craft onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678500/2…

🔥Hot off the press How do financial cycles shape bureaucratic autonomy, economic growth & regulatory governance in emerging markets? Fulya Apaydin & I locate bureaucracy in growth models & study the political economic bases of bureaucratic autonomy👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.111…

A systematic review of the Narrative Policy Framework: a future research agenda doi.org/10.1332/030557…

The German sense of humour is woefully underrated

Check out our review of the Narrative Policy Framework's collective body of research. Thank you Bristol University Press and Policy and Politics for making it open access until Sept 16!

Teaching stats and R using our textbook for complete beginners, Data Analysis for Social Science (bit.ly/dss_book)? #rstats Here are some instructor RESOURCES for you:

Closing the #EGOV2024 Junior Faculty Day with a panel on e-gov trends in THE most spectacular location in Ghent: the Book Tower! ⁦J. Ramon Gil-Garcia⁩ ⁦Efthimios Tambouris⁩ ⁦Marijn Janssen⁩ @peterparycek ⁦Edimara Luciano⁩ Gov & PA Ghent University⁩

Five minutes after arriving in Greece: - Official airport taxi rate 55 - Driver charges 65 - Driver insists on giving a receipt for 87 euros and tells me “why do you want to save money for the university? Ask for 87 and use the money to get nice coffee” Ah, Mediterranean people

If you are around for #EGPA2024 International Institute of Administrative Sciences , you can stop by our panel on policy design and evaluation co-chaired with Sonja Blum Valerie Pattyn Ellen Fobé, & Caspar van den Berg. Attendees might or might not have the chance to win or lose a brand new Ferrari.Terms & conditions apply*

What does digital strategy actually mean in a public sector context & what does it look like in practice? Sounds like an easy question, but it is hard work to answer this well. ⁦Valerie Vervaenen⁩ just presented her ongoing PhD research at #EGOV2024 !

There are worse locations for presenting your research than a castle 🤩 ⁦Sarah VI⁩ presenting her PhD research on digital maturity of local governments at #EGOV2024

I presented the framework of my paper on the relevance of local advisory councils in the panel on #citizenparticipation, chaired by @VedranĐulabic & Elke Loeffler at #EGPA2024 in #Athens. Thanks for the valuable feedback from the participants!

Our Inez Catala Gov & PA Ghent University presenting her first PhD paper, a systematic literature review on public sector #consulting at #EGPA2024 International Institute of Administrative Sciences. Part of her PhD project supervised by Ben Suykens & myself. A great job & really helpful feedback from the chairs and attendance.

Well, that’s how you know you are in Greece “The only real wisdom is knowing you don’t know where to go on Google maps”

The #NPF workshops are back 🤩 Join us next Thursday for an exciting conversation with Michael D. Jones, Geoboo Song | 송거부, Aaron Smith-Walter, Mark McBeth, and Elizabeth Shanahan!

Happy to see our paper in Policy & Politics essential readings list, now open access until october!