German Policy Studies articles from December 2006

German Policy Studies archives from December 2006

Biotechnology policy convergence in continental Europe? Political institutions, problem framing and learning.
December 22, 2006... 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...

Explaining restrictive ART policies in Switzerland and Germany: similar processes - similar results?(assisted reproductive technology )
December 22, 2006... 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...

Regulating biomedicine in Belgium and France: neighboring countries, diverging policies.
December 22, 2006... 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),...

Policy learning in policy domains with value conflicts: the Austrian cases of abortion and Assisted Reproductive Technologies (1).
December 22, 2006... 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...

Advocacy coalitions, policy-oriented learning and long-term change in genetic engineering policy: an interpretist view.
December 22, 2006... 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...