The tension between policy stability and change is a key political phenomenon, but its dynamics have been little understood. Why Does Policy Change? examines and explains the dynamics of major policy change by looking at case studies from British Transport policy since 1945. The significant contrasts between road and rail policies in this period lend themselves perfectly to the authors' theories of what brings about policy turnabout.
The tension between policy stability and change is a key political phenomenon, but its dynamics have been little understood. Why Does Policy Chang...
This study, with contributions from both scholars and practitioners, examines the theory and practice of public sector ethics across a broad range of environments.
This study, with contributions from both scholars and practitioners, examines the theory and practice of public sector ethics across a broad range ...
This book explores local partnership-based initiatives to tackle European-wide problems of poverty and social exclusion. In both the UK and the European Union, these are amongst the most pressing problems confronting politicians and policy makers today; and partnership is widely identified as an essential element in any solution.
This book explores local partnership-based initiatives to tackle European-wide problems of poverty and social exclusion. In both the UK and the Europe...
Local Governance in England and France addresses issues at the cutting edge of comparative politics and public policy. The book is based on extensive research and interviews, over 300 in total, with local decision makers in two pairs of cities in England and France: Lille and Leeds; Rennes and Southampton. No other Anglo-French comparative project has ever gone into such depth - based on actual case studies - making this book an invaluable resource for students and professionals alike. The book poses key questions about the changing role of the state, the difficulties of policy...
Local Governance in England and France addresses issues at the cutting edge of comparative politics and public policy. The book is based on e...
This work sets out a new approach to understanding society, based on rational choice theory. Starting from a few simple assumptions about the nature and context of human action, this text provides a reinterpretation of our major social institutions. Its central aim is to see how far social relations can be explained on the basis of human beings acting in their own interests rather than under the confines of wider social forces. The institutions examined in this book include households, communities, workplaces, social classes and the state. In each case, it is shown how the institution forms a...
This work sets out a new approach to understanding society, based on rational choice theory. Starting from a few simple assumptions about the nature a...
This new study examines the relationship between two key issues in the on-going debate on urban governance- leadership and community involvement. This book explores the nature of the interaction between community involvement and political leadership in modern local governance. Drawing on empirical data gathered from case-studies concerning cities in England, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, and Sweden, the analysis offers both a country specific and cross-cutting analysis of the contributions that communities and leaders can make to more effective...
This new study examines the relationship between two key issues in the on-going debate on urban governance- leadership and community involvement. ...
One of the persistent claims made about the public sector over the past several decades has been that the public service has become more politicized. Addressing this important area of debate within public administration, this book discusses conceptions and measurements of politicization, as well as some of its causes and consequences. Using a comparative framework, the authors collected here confront the issue of politicization, identifying the nature and extent of political involvement and assessing the real impact of any changes on the legitimacy and effectiveness of the political system....
One of the persistent claims made about the public sector over the past several decades has been that the public service has become more politicized. ...
This polemical new study explores the idea of public service and attempts to define an ideal. It both examines some of the key contributions to the development of ideas about public service in the context of British central administration and presents a discussion of the recent trends in administrative practice in the UK.
This polemical new study explores the idea of public service and attempts to define an ideal. It both examines some of the key contributions to the de...
Civil society has become one of the key parts of the reference framework for governance, seeking to replace traditional public action in which representative democracy is combined with bureaucratic implementation. The success of the civil society myth contrasts with and consequently manifests itself in the problems of political and social legitimacy and representation.
This book assesses the shift in the meaning and application of civil society, from citizen protests to its incorporation into public action. It examines the diversity of interpretations and uses of civil society in...
Civil society has become one of the key parts of the reference framework for governance, seeking to replace traditional public action in which repr...
After two decades of dominating the public sector reform agenda, privatization is on the wane as states gradually reassert themselves in many formerly privatized sectors. The change of direction is a response to the realization that privatization is not working as intended, especially in public service sectors.
This landmark volume brings together leading social scientists, including B. Guy Peters, Anthony Cheung and Jon Pierre, to systematically discuss the emerging patterns of the reassertion of the state in the delivery of essential public services. The state under these...
After two decades of dominating the public sector reform agenda, privatization is on the wane as states gradually reassert themselves in many forme...
