Books

Giest, Sarah and Ian Roberge. 2024. International Handbook of Public Administration and Digital Governance. Routledge. (forthcoming)

Giest, Sarah, Ingrams, Alex, Klievink, Bram, and Matt Young. 2025. Handbook on Governance and Data Science. Edward Elgar. (forthcoming)

Giest, Sarah. 2021. The Capacity to Innovate: Cluster Policy and Management in the Biotechnology Sector. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

Interview about the book | Summary of Policy Recommendations (LSE blog post)

Book Reviews:

• Regional Studies Journal by David A. Wolfe (2022): https://rsa.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00343404.2021.2011074#.YeGXOhPMJrp

• Review by Dan Munro (2022): https://www.danmunro.ca/blog/2022/1/13/2021-a-year-in-innovation-and-skills-reading

Special Issues

Thematic Issue in Information Polity 25(4), Algorithmic transparency in government, December 2020. Co-edited with Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen (Utrecht University).

• Editorial for the Special Issue: Giest, Sarah and Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen. 2020. Algorithmic transparency in government: Towards a multi-level perspective. Information Polity 25(4).

Thematic Issue (open access) in Politics and Governance 6(4), Big Data Applications in Governance and Policy, November 2018. Co-edited with Reuben Ng (NUS, Singapore).

• Editorial for the Special Issue: Giest, Sarah and Reuben Ng. 2018. Big Data Applications in Governance and Policy. Politics and Governance 6 (4).

Peer-reviewed journal articles 

van den Berg, Annelieke, Giest, Sarah, and Sandra Groeneveld. 2024. How young adults explain their intention to participate in online direct citizen participation. Public Administration, https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12974.

Nasri, Maedeh, Baratchi, Mitra, Tsou, Yung-Ting, Giest, Sarah, Koutamanis, Alexander, and Carolien Rieffe. 2023. A novel metric to measure spatio-temporal proximity: a case study analyzing children’s social network in schoolyards. Applied Network Science 8(50).

van den Berg, Annelieke, Giest, Sarah, and Wessel Kraaij. 2022. Assessing Inclusivity in Online Platforms Through Usability Evaluation with Google Analytics. Policy & Internet, DOI:10.1002/poi3.328.

Giest, Sarah and Annemarie Samuels. 2022. Administrative burden in digital public service delivery: The social infrastructure of library programs for e-inclusion. Review of Policy Research.

Nasri, Maedeh, Tsou, Yung-Ting, Koutamanis, Alexander, Baratchi, Mitra, Giest, Sarah, Reidsma, Dennis, and Carolien Rieffe. 2022. A novel data-driven approach to examine children’s movements and social behaviour in schoolyard environments. Children 9(8), DOI: 10.3390/children9081177.

Giest, Sarah and Bram Klievink. 2022. More than a digital system: How AI is changing the role of bureaucrats in different organizational contexts. Public Management Review, DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2022.2095001.

Giest, Sarah and Ishani Mukherjee. 2022. Evidence integration for coherent nexus policy design: A Mediterranean perspective on managing water-energy interactions. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, DOI: 10.1080/1523908X.2022.2049221.

Mauri, Andrea, Psyllidis, Achilleas, Bozzon, Alessandro, Lee, Ju-Sung, Pridmore, Jason, van Zoonen, Liesbet, and Sarah Giest. 2021. Complementing Studies on Vulnerable Youths with Reddit Data. ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), DOI: 10.1145/3464385.3464703.

Giest, Sarah, Miotto, Jose, and Wessel Kraaij. 2021. The value of data matching for public poverty initiatives: A local voucher program example. Data & Policy 3, e5.

Vydra, Simon, Poama, Andrei, Giest, Sarah, Alex Ingram and Bram Klievink. 2021. Big Data Ethics: a life cycle perspective. Erasmus Law Review, DOI: 10.5553/ELR.000190.

Howlett, Mike, Mukherjee, Ishani and Sarah Giest. 2020. The Future of Policy Tools: Promises and Pitfalls. Public Policy Review 1, 51-68.

Hughes, Sara, Giest, Sarah and Laura Tozer. 2020. Accountability and Data-Driven Urban Climate Governance. Nature Climate Change, DOI: 10.1038/s41558-020-00953-z.

Giest, Sarah. 2020. Do nudgers need budging? A comparative analysis of European smart meter implementation. Government Information Quarterly 37 (4).

Giest, Sarah and Annemarie Samuels. 2020. ‘For good measure’: Data gaps in a big data world. Policy Sciences 53, 559–569.

van den Berg, Annelieke, Giest, Sarah, Groeneveld, Sandra and Wessel Kraaij. 2020. Inclusivity in Online Platforms: Recruitment Strategies for Improving Participation of Diverse Sociodemographic Groups. Public Administration Review, DOI:10.1111/puar.13215.

Mukherjee, Ishani and Sarah Giest. 2020. Behavioral Insights Teams (BITs) and Policy Change: An Exploration of Impact, Location and Temporality of Policy Advice. Administration & Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/0095399720918315.

Giest, Sarah. 2019. Making energy personal: Policy coordination challenges in UK smart meter implementation. Journal of Public Policy (doi 10.1017/ S0143814X19000163).

Giest, Sarah and Ishani Mukherjee. 2018. Behavioral instruments in renewable energy and the role of big data: A policy perspective. Energy Policy 123, 360-366.

Giest, Sarah and Nadine Raaphorst. 2018. Unravelling the hindering factors of digital public service delivery at street-level: The case of Electronic Health Records. Policy Design and Practice 1 (2), 141-154.

Giest, Sarah. 2018. Entrepreneurial activities in wind power implementation: Sweden's national wind coordinators. Regional Environmental Change 18 (5), 1299–1308. 

Mukherjee, Ishani and Sarah Giest. 2017. Designing policies in uncertain contexts: Entrepreneurial capacity and the European Emission Trading Scheme. Public Policy & Administration 34 (3), 262-286.

Giest, Sarah. 2017. Big Data for Policymaking: Fad or Fast Track? Policy Sciences 50 (3), 367–382. 

Giest, Sarah. 2017. Trust Dynamics in Innovation Networks: The Chicago life science cluster. Administration & Society 51 (2), 325-343.

Giest, Sarah. 2017. Big Data Analytics for mitigating carbon emissions in smart cities: Opportunities and challenges. European Planning Studies 25 (6), 941-957.

Giest, Sarah. 2016. The challenges of enhancing collaboration in life science clusters: Lessons from Chicago, Copenhagen and Singapore. Science and Public Policy 44 (2), 163-173. 

Giest, Sarah. 2016. Overcoming the Failure of ‘Silicon Somewheres’: Collective Learning in Innovation Networks. Policy and Politics 45 (1), 39-54.

Giest, Sarah. 2015. Comparative analysis of Sweden’s wind energy policy: The evolution of ‘coordinated’ networks. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 17 (4), 393-407.

Giest, Sarah. 2015. Network capacity-building in high-tech sectors: Opening the black box of cluster facilitation policy. Public Administration 93 (2), 471–489.

Giest, Sarah. 2014. Place-based policy in climate change: Flexible and path-dependent elements. International Journal of Public Administration 37 (12), 824-834.

Giest, Sarah and Michael Howlett. 2013. Understanding the pre-conditions of commons governance: The role of network management. Environmental Science & Policy 36, 37-47.

Giest, Sarah and Michael Howlett. 2013. Comparative climate change governance: Lessons from European transnational municipal networks. Environmental Policy and Governance 23 (6), 341-353.

Giest, Sarah and Michael Howlett. 2012. Multi-level Governance and Place-Based PolicyMaking for Climate Change Adaptation: The European Experience and Lessons for British Columbia. BC Studies 176.

Book chapters

Giest Sarah, Ingrams, Alex, and Bram Klievink. 2024. The effect of algorithmic tools on public value considerations in participatory processes: the case of regulations.gov. In: Charalabidis, Yannis, Medaglia, Rony, and Colin van Noordt (Eds.), Research Handbook on Public Management and Artificial Intelligence. Edward Elgar.

Giest, Sarah, Mukherjee, Ishani, and Michael Howlett. 2022. The Future of Policy Tools. In: Howlett, Michael (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Policy Tools. Routledge: London.

Giest, Sarah. 2020. Overcoming the failure of ‘silicon somewheres’: learning in policy transfer processes. In: Dunlop, Claire (Ed.), Policy learning and policy failure. Policy Press: Bristol, UK, pp. 49-70.

Giest, Sarah. 2019. Decision-making with algorithms, On the digital state. In: Schinkelshoek, Jan and Aalt Willem Heringa (Eds.), Groot onderhoud of kruimelwerk. Montesquieu Institute, EAN 9789462906853.

Galanti, Tullia, and Sarah Giest. 2019. Design activation in multi-level settings. In: Capano, Giliberto, Howlett, Michael, Ramesh, M., and Altaf Virani (Eds.), Making Policies work, First- and Second-order Mechanisms in Policy Design. Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK, pp.96-114.

Hughes, Sara, Tozer, Laura and Sarah Giest. 2019. The Politics of Data-Driven Urban Climate Change Mitigation. In: Jeroen van der Heijden, Harriet Bulkeley, and Chiara Certomà (Eds.), Urban Climate Politics: Agency and Empowerment. Cambridge University Press, 116-134.

Galanti, Tullia and Sarah Giest. 2019. Design activation in multi-level settings. In: Giliberto Capano, Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh and Altaf Virani (Eds.), Making Policies Work, First- and Second-order Mechanisms in Policy Design. Edward Elgar.

Giest, Sarah. 2018. Policy learning in times of big data analytics: The challenges of skill-based outsourcing. In: Dotti, Nicola (Ed.), Knowledge, Policymaking and Learning for European Cities and Regions. Edward Elgar. 

Mans, Uli, Giest, Sarah and Thomas Baar. 2018. Can Big Data Make a Difference for Urban Management? In: Elmqvist et al. (Eds.), The Urban Planet: Knowledge towards Sustainable Cities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.218-238. (open access)

Breeman, Gerard, Giest, Sarah and Dovile Rimkute. 2017. Food security governance and the sustainability of GMOs in the United States and the European Union. In: Barling, David (Ed.), Food Security & Sustainability, Vol 2, Elsevier, pp. 165-193.

Giest, Sarah, Howlett, Michael and Ishani Mukherjee. 2014. The relevance of the academic study of public policy. In Peters, Guy, Pierre, Jon and Gerry Stoker (Eds.), The Relevance of Political Science. Palgrave Macmillan.

Hira, Anil, Giest, Sarah and Michael Howlett. 2013. Explaining the Success of Clusters: A Framework for the Study of Global Wine Industry Dynamics. In A. Hira (Ed.) What makes clusters competitive? Cases from the global wine industry. Montreal: McGillQueen’s University Press, 3-57.

Howlett, Michael and Sarah Giest. 2012. The Policy-Making Process. In James D. Wright (Ed.) International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioural Sciences. London: Elsevier.

Howlett, Michael and Sarah Giest. 2012. The Policy-Making Process: Policy Cycles and Policy Styles. In Araral, Fritzen, Howlett, Michael, Ramesh, Wu (ed.). Routledge Handbook of Public Policy. New York: Routledge.

Reports

Giest, S. 2023. Policy capacity mechanisms for addressing complex, place-based sustainability challenges, Background paper for the OECD-EC High-Level Expert Workshop Series on “Place-Based Policies for the Future”, Workshop 5, 15 September 2023, https://www.oecd.org/regional/place-based-policies-for-the-future.htm.

Giest, S., Klievink, B. and B. Steunenberg. 2019. Epilogue: Policy challenges relating to data use. In: NL Digitaal, Essay Collection: Appropriate use of data in public space, From dialogue groups to new policy proposals. English Version | Dutch Version.

van Zoonen, L., Rijshouwer, E., Leclercq, E., Schokker, L., Hirzalla, F. and S. Giest. 2019. Your Neighbourhood, Your Data. Outcomes of a research game about the knowledge attitude and behaviour of citizens in the smart city. Working Paper #2. English Version | Dutch Version.

Stroetmann, K.A., Artmann, J., Stroetmann, V., Protti, D., Dumortier, J., Giest, S., Wallosek, U. and D. Whitehouse. 2011. European countries on their journey towards national eHealth infrastructures. Final European progress report. European Commission, Information Society.

This project included the publication of 33 individual country reports in collaboration with country experts, see http:// www.ehealth-strategies.eu/ for details.

Blog posts

Giest, Sarah. When it comes to innovation clusters, policymakers need a new narrative. LSE Global Investments and Local Development Blog, June 21st, 2021.

Giest, Sarah. Citizens ‘on mute’ in digital public service delivery - Part I & Part II. Data & Policy Blog, June 14th, 2021.

Rieffe, Carolien, Giest, Sarah and Pim Deul. Is school a place where autism meets equal opportunity? Leiden Psychology Blog, March 23rd, 2020.

Giest, Sarah and Ansgar Koene. Engaging with citizens online: civic apps must offer dynamic interactions in order to be truly effective. London School of Economics, Impact of Social Science Blog, January 25th, 2017. 

Giest, Sarah. The Key to Innovation. Socially Integrated Sciences Blog, March 29th, 2012. 

Giest, Sarah. Tell your Grandma about your research. Socially Integrated Sciences Blog, January 9th, 2012.