Recently added articles from German Policy Studies:

Biotechnology policy convergence in continental Europe? Political institutions, problem framing and learning.

Dec 22, 2006; Bandelow, Nils C ... Biotechnology policy has been an issue of German and European policy studies since the early 1990s. Starting with a book that complained about "unpolitical" processes and regulations (Gill 1991), a lot of young researchers selected the area for their PhDtheses then. These students have ...

Explaining restrictive ART policies in Switzerland and Germany: similar processes - similar results?(assisted reproductive technology )

Dec 22, 2006; Rothmayr, Christine ... 1. Introduction (1) The issue of assisted reproductive technology (ART) made its way on the political agenda in Switzerland and Germany in the early 1980s. Since then, both countries have adopted several pieces of legislation, first addressing questions related to in vitro ...

Regulating biomedicine in Belgium and France: neighboring countries, diverging policies.

Dec 22, 2006; Schiffino, Nathalie ... 1. Introduction The invention of the technique of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) in the late 1970s and its routinization in the mid-1980s created the basis for new medical techniques, such as intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), pre-implantation diagnostics, genetic screening ...

Policy learning in policy domains with value conflicts: the Austrian cases of abortion and Assisted Reproductive Technologies (1).

Dec 22, 2006; GrieBler, Erich ... 1 Introduction This paper addresses the question of how we can account for learning in policy domains, in which according to Sabatier's Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF, Sabatier 1988, 1998, Sabatier & Jenkins-Smith 1993, 1999) learning is unlikely. For a better ...

Advocacy coalitions, policy-oriented learning and long-term change in genetic engineering policy: an interpretist view.

Dec 22, 2006; Bandelow, Nils C. ... 1. Introduction (1) In 1973, Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer introduced a technique to transfer genes from one organism to another artificially. Scientists, industry, farmers, medicine, and several social movements have associated different kinds of hopes and risks with the use ...