Special Issue: Fiascos in public policy and foreign policy

The contents of this special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy are:

+ Studying fiascos: bringing public and foreign policy together
Kai Oppermann & Alexander Spencer

+ Revisiting the study of policy failures
Mark Bovens & Paul ‘t Hart

+ A public policy approach to understanding the nature and causes of foreign policy failure
Allan McConnell

+ Telling stories of failure: narrative constructions of foreign policy fiascos
Kai Oppermann & Alexander Spencer

+ ‘Fiasco prime ministers’: leaders’ beliefs and personality traits as possible causes for policy fiascos
Klaus Brummer

+ The fiasco of the 2013 Syria votes: decline and denial in British foreign policy
Jamie Gaskarth

+ Over- and under-reaction to transboundary threats: two sides of a misprinted coin?
Christoph O. Meyer

+ Resilient blunderers: credit rating fiascos and rating agencies’ institutionalized status as private authorities
Andreas Kruck

+ Dissonance and decision-making mistakes in the age of risk
Ryan Beasley