Contemporary policy work in subnational governments and NGOs: Comparing evidence from Australia, Canada and the Czech RepublicFootnote^*

* The work of Arnošt Veselý was supported by the Czech Science Foundation Grant (P404/12/0725). The authors would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions.

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