作者：Vyas, Lina
作者单位：Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK)
作者：Warner, Carolyn M.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
作者：Tawat, Mahama
作者单位：HSE University (National Research University Higher School of Economics); Malmo University
作者：Cain, Bruce E.
作者单位：Stanford University; Stanford University
作者：Beland, Daniel; Howlett, Michael
作者单位：Simon Fraser University
摘要：Public policies are composed of complex arrangements of policy goals and policy means matched through some decision-making process. Exactly how this process works and which comes firstproblem or solutionis an outstanding research question in the policy sciences. This article argues the emerging concept of an instrument constituencya subsystem component dedicated to the articulation and promotion of particular kinds of solutions regardless of problem contextcan help policy scholars answer this ...
作者：Tawat, Mahama
作者单位：HSE University (National Research University Higher School of Economics); Malmo University
作者：Foa, Roberto Stefan; Nemirovskaya, Anna
作者单位：Harvard University; HSE University (National Research University Higher School of Economics)
摘要：While there is a growing literature on state formation and the rise of state capacity over time, this literature typically deals with differences between countries, neglecting the fact that state formation also occurs differentially within a country over time. This article examines legacies of state formation spatially, by looking at variation within frontier statescountries that in recent centuries have extended rule over new territories adjacent to their core regions. Frontier zones are foun...
