Evangelia Petridou recently published an article in the Policy Studies Journal entitled, “Theories of the Policy Process: Contemporary Scholarship and Future Directions.” In this article Ms. Petridou reviews some of the most recent scholarship on public policy making, and she shows how several long-standing theories of policy making continue to generate interesting insights in terms of how policies are created, disseminated, and implemented across a wide variety of political and institutional contexts.

Ms. Petridou earned her MPA degree in 2008 and is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at Mid-Sweden University. Her research and teaching interests include theories of the policy process, political entrepreneurship, and urban governance.