Public Policy Disasters in Europe

ISBN-13: 9780415170703 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 240 str.

Pat Gray; Paul Hart

Opis

This study presents case studies of recent and often spectacular failures of policy, including the BSE crisis, the Arms to Iraq affair, the Poll Tax fiasco, the German currency union and the EU's common fisheries policy. Using contrasting and theoretical frameworks, this work asks what is meant by policy disaster, and looks at the different forms that disasters take and why they have occurred. It concludes with a new model for classifying the success or failure of government policy.

Spis treści

Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 Policy Disasters in Europe, Pat Gray; Part 2 The Core Functions of the State; Chapter 2 The Disastrous Justice System in Belgium, Lode Van Outrive; Chapter 3 The Mass Media and Policy Disasters, Mark Bovens, Paul’t Hart, Sander Dekker, Gerdien Verheuvel, Eline de Vries; Part 3 The ‘Welfare‘ State; Chapter 4 The BSE Crisis, Rob Baggott; Chapter 5 Italian Public Policy and the Southern Question, Robert Sykes; Chapter 6 An Unavoidable Disaster? The German Currency Union of 1990, Wolfgang Seibel; Part 4 The State in its International Context; Chapter 7 ‘errors of an Administrative Nature’?, Pat Gray; Chapter 8 In Defence of the Swedish Crown, Eric Stern, Bengt Sundelius; Part 5 The European Union Level; Chapter 9 The Common Fisheries Policy, Ella Ritchie, Anthony Zito; Chapter 10 The Change of a Lifetime?, Joanne van Selm-Thorburn, Bertjan Verbeek; Part 6 Conclusions; Chapter 11 Explaining Policy Disasters in Europe, Mark Bovens, Paul’t Hart, B.Guy Peters;

O autorze

't Hart, Paul; Gray, Pat