How instrument constituencies promote solutions
In the current issue of Governance, Daniel Béland andMichael Howlett explore the process by which policy goals are matched with policy solutions. An important type of actor in this process is the “instrument constituency” — a group that is dedicated to the promotion of a particular kind of solution, regardless of problem context. Béland and Howlett use cross-sectoral and cross-national case studies to demonstrate the usefulness of this new concept in explaining the dynamics of the policy process. Read the article.