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Policy Instrumentation

Theoretical Debates and Controversies

AvCharlotte Halpern,Pierre Lascoumes

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This timely book explores how instrumentation contributes to understanding forms of collective action, most importantly public policies, their political effects and their results. Scholars reflect upon the slow progress of mitigating long lasting issues and contemporary challenges in policy research, advancing conceptual, methodological and empirical debates. Critically engaging with diverse intellectual traditions that have shaped the literature on policy instrumentation, this book goes beyond narrow policy analysis to rethink current paradigms and spark debate. It proposes an original political sociology conception of instrumentation that is used to discuss policy design and conflicts arising from the choice and implementation of the instruments. Expert contributors develop and enhance the current dominant strategies through engaging with research across sociology, science and technology, economics and politics. They address the main contentions between functionalist and critical approaches, providing insight into how best to conceptualise public policy instruments in the modern world. This book is an essential resource for advanced scholars, early career researchers and students interested in policy studies, public administration and management and research methods in political science. Policymakers will also find this invaluable for better understanding the growing field of policy research.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-08-21
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Advances in Critical Policy Studies series
Förlag:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:9781035372492

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Edited by Charlotte Halpern, Senior researcher (with tenure), Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE), CNRS, Pierre Lascoumes, Emeritus CNRS Research Professor, Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) and Patrick Le Galès, FBA, MAE, CNRS Research Professor, Sciences Po, Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics (CEE) and Sciences Po Urban School, Paris, France

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‘This is the definitive statement on the political sociology of instrumentation. With rigour and authority, Halpern, Lascoumes and Le Galès demonstrate that instruments are never neutral; they structure power, organise conflict and shape the possibilities of collective action. With a stellar line-up of contributors from the fields of political sociology, science studies, and policy research, this volume sets the standard for the discipline.’

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ContentsIntroduction: Instrumentation of collective action, markets andpolicies Charlotte Halpern , Pierre Lascoumes and Patrick Le Galès1 Policy instrumentation: conflicts, institutions, knowledge 1Charlotte Halpern, Pierre Lascoumes and Patrick Le Galès2 Resisting policy instruments 26Pierre Lascoumes and Jean-Pierre Bourhis3 Governing at a distance: the power of making instruments 47Jan-Peter Voß4 Ideas, instruments or cognitive motives? 74Daniel Benamouzig5 The trouble with market device 91Liz McFall6 The metamorphosis of management approaches to instruments 113Franck Aggeri and Julie Labatut7 The socio-historical perspective of public policy instruments 133Pierre-Yves Baudot8 The un-politics of instrument selections 161Edward C. Page9 The changing nature of instruments. Why and howinstruments of participation change in the European Union? 174Sabine Saurugger10 Policy instrumentation and democratisation: a key variable inpublic policy restructuring 194Charlotte Halpern

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