The Politics of Means and Ends: Policy Instruments in the European Union

ISBN-13: 9781138260962 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 226 str.

Holger Bahr

Opis

A systematic comparison of the techniques used to implement policy goals in European environmental policy and European social policy. Holger Bähr argues that decisions made by political institutions and the politicization of policy problems both constrain political actors and provide them with the opportunity to transfer their preferred policy instruments into policy outputs at the end of the decision-making process.

Recenzje

'Policy instruments are suddenly back in vogue again, not least in the European Union (EU) which is struggling hard to find new ways to govern complex problems without making the scale of "Brussels" greater. This book offers the first systematic comparative analysis of how and why new (and older) policy instruments are used in the two very different areas of social and environmental policy. For those who find the governance of the EU deeply puzzling, this book is a "must read".' Andrew Jordan, University of East Anglia, UK

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Explaining policy instruments; Comparing policy areas; European environmental policy; European social policy; Policy instruments in European environmental policy and European social policy; Conclusion; Annex; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Holger Bähr is a Research Assistant at the University of Konstanz, Germany