Andrea Migone is Senior Research Fellow at Simon Fraser University; his research agenda centers on the nature and effects of policy advice on the intersection of public administration and politics. The practical areas of research and publications he focuses on are policy capacity, Policy Advisory Systems, the role and activities of both internal and external sources of advice, including public administrators, consultants and academics, the approach to management by top public administrators, and policy styles. Recently, he has also published on the theory of ideational robustness, policy persistence and the role of quality in Policy Advisory Systems. Andrea also works on military procurement (including the role of alignment of policy framing and implementation capacity) and the role of consultant in providing advice to governments.