Challenges to Political Decision-Making

Hubert Heinelt

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• This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction and of what seems to constrain and enable actors in ... Lees meer

Hybrid Public Policy Innovations

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• Political discourse in much of the world remains mired in simplistic ideological dichotomies of market fundamentalism for efficiency versus substantia... Lees meer

Expertise, Policy-making and Democracy

Johan Christensen, Cathrine Holst, Anders Molander

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• This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to debates about expertise, policy-making and democracy. It uniquely combines an overview of re... Lees meer

Governing Modern Societies

Hubert Heinelt

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• Is the 'golden age' of democracy really over due to the pressures of globalisation and the erosion of the nation state? Within this book, Heinelt seek... Lees meer

The Ideal of Public Service

Barry O'Toole

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• A close examination of the ethics of higher civil servants in Britain and how they have been undermined by recent developments in public administratio... Lees meer

Marriage and Values in Public Policy

Elizabeth Van Acker

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• Marriage is a site of political conflict. It is a controversial issue in the UK, Australia and the US where there is a clash of values between neolibe... Lees meer

Legitimacy and Urban Governance

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• A fresh examination of the relationship between two key issues in the on-going debate on urban governance - leadership and community involvement. It e... Lees meer

Childhood Citizenship, Governance and Policy

Sana Nakata

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• Debates about children's rights not only concern those things that children have a right to have and to do but also our broader social and political c... Lees meer

Policy Styles and Trust in the Age of Pandemics

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• This book explores the reasons behind the variation in national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, it furthers the policy studies schola... Lees meer

The Politicization of the Civil Service in Comparative Perspective

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• This book addresses an important issue and debate in public administration: the politicization of civil service systems and personnel. Using a compara... Lees meer

Varieties of Risk Analysis in Public Administrations

Regine Paul

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• This book sets out a novel conceptual and analytical framework to explain why risk analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and similar analytical tools have ... Lees meer

Changing Images of Civil Society

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy | nr. 11
• Civil society has become one of the key parts of the reference framework for governance, seeking to replace traditional public action in which represe... Lees meer

Frontline Delivery of Welfare-To-Work Policies in Europe

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• Welfare-to-work or activation policies refer to programmes aimed at promoting the employability, labour-market and social participation of benefit rec... Lees meer

Middle Class and Welfare State

Marlon Barbehön, Marilena Geugjes, Michael Haus

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• This book examines the relationship between the middle class and the welfare state. Taking an interpretive approach which understands the middle class... Lees meer

The Politics of Evidence

Justin Parkhurst

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• This book provides new insights into the nature of political bias with regard to evidence. It draws on both policy studies and cognitive psychology to... Lees meer

Rethinking Governance

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• This volume explores new directions of governance and public policy arising both from interpretive political science and those who engage with interpr... Lees meer

The Politicization of the Civil Service in Comparative Perspective

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
• This book addresses an important issue and debate in public administration: the politicization of civil service systems and personnel. Using a compara... Lees meer

Decentring Urban Governance

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• Decentring Urban Governance seeks to rethink governance not as a particular state formation, but as the diverse policies emerging associated with the ... Lees meer

Challenges to Political Decision-Making

Hubert Heinelt

• Paperback | Engels | Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
• This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction and of what seems to constrain and enable actors in ... Lees meer

Municipal Territorial Reforms of the 21st Century in Europe

Pawel Swianiewicz, Adam Gendźwill, Kurt Houlberg

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• This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of territorial change on the municipal level across all European countries. Taking a themati... Lees meer

Governmentality after Neoliberalism

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• Neoliberalism has had a major impact on public policy but it has also perhaps obscured the equally dramatic spread of other policy tools based on sign... Lees meer

Rethinking Governance

• Hardcover | Engels | Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
• This volume explores new directions of governance and public policy arising both from interpretive political science and those who engage with interpr... Lees meer

Decentring Health Policy

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• Taking a 'decentred' approach to the analysis of health policy means being attentive to the historical contingencies and circumstances within which re... Lees meer

Health Care Policy and Opinion in the United States and Canada

Richard Nadeau, Éric Bélanger, François Pétry

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• Heated debate surrounds the topic of health care in both the US and in Canada. In each country, these debates are based in some measure on perceptions... Lees meer