Policy, Performance and Management in Governance and Intergovernmental Relations

Edited by Edoardo Ongaro, Professor of Public Management, The Open University, Andrew Massey, Professor of Government, King's College London, UK, Marc Holzer, Professor Emeritus and Founding Dean, School of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University; Distinguished Research Professor, Institute for Public Service, Suffolk University-Boston; Elected Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration, US and Ellen Wayenberg, University College Ghent and Ghent University, Belgium

’The trend towards multi-level and intergovernmental governance arrangements has created a need for a new analytic language and for new frameworks of analysis. It has changed the nature of decision-making. This timely book combines perspective from public policy, public management and public finance and provides new insights into who governs the multi-level and intergovernmental polity and how it is governed, making it an essential addition to the literature.’

• Contents:PrefacePART I: POLICY FORMULATION PROCESSES IN IGR SETTINGS: ANALYTICAL MODELS AND PERSPECTIVES1. Introduction. Policy Formulation Processes in IGR Settings: Analytical Models and PerspectivesMartin Laffin and Carol Weissert2. Pathways of Policy Making: The Political Dynamics of Intergovernmental Lawmaking and Reform in the United StatesTim Conlan and Paul Posner3. Who Will Govern US Megapolitans, and How? An Inter-governmental AnalysisJohn Stuart Hall4. Bureaucratie Sans Frontières: Legitimacy, Authority, Accountability in Geo-governance SystemsH. George Frederickson and Jack W. Meek5. The Institutional Analysis of Central-local Relations Applied to the Case of the Netherlands and GermanyTrui Steen and Theo Toonen6. Fiscal Decentralization: A Brief on Theory and EvidencePedro J. Camões PART II: POLICY IMPLEMENTATION ACROSS LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT: MODELS AND PERSPECTIVES OF ANALYSIS7. Introduction. Policy Implementation Across Levels of Government: Models and Perspectives of AnalysisMarc Holzer and Ellen Wayenberg 8. Dispersed Federalism: Regional Governance for Disaster PolicyPatrick S. Roberts 9. Strategies to Join Up Resources Across Levels and Sectors of Government: A 12 Country ComparisonLars Niklasson 10. Revisiting Pressman and Wildavsky: Implementation and the Thickness of HierarchyPeter L. Hupe 11. Institutional Decentralization Policies as Multi-level Governance Strategies – Evaluating the Impacts of Decentralization in Western EuropeFalk Ebinger, Stephan Grohs, Renate Reiter and Sabine Kuhlmann 12. The State of the Practice of Performance Measurement in Intergovernmental Arrangements in the United StatesMarc Holzer, Etienne Charbonneau and Alexander HendersonPART III: PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN IGR-MLG SETTINGS13.Introduction. Performance Measurement and Accountability in IGR-MLG SettingsMarc Holzer and Ellen Wayenberg 14. Distributing Benefits and Burdens: Assessing Performance of the US Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer SystemJeremy L. Hall 15. Managing Performance Across Levels of Government: Lessons Learned or Reproducing Disconnects?Geert Bouckaert and John Halligan 16. Performance Assessment at the ‘Edge of Influence’: A Case Study in Central Government Holding Local Authorities to Account for a ‘Thriving Third Sector’ in the UKTony Bovaird, Lys Coleman, Dawn Hands, Les Hems and Douglas Johnson 17. Fiscal Decentralization and Corruption in the European Union: The Italian Case of Community FraudsMaria Laura SeguitiPART IV: INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS AND WELFARE18. Introduction. Intergovernmental Relations and WelfareGiovanni Fattore and Norma M. Riccucci 19. Conditioning Subnational Responses to External Influences: The Role of Internal Moderators in Public Policy Adoption in the American StatesEdward Alan Miller 20. From Interpersonal to Interregional Redistribution: The Case of Social Policies in ItalyCaterina Ferrario and Alberto Zanardi 21. Do Italian Regions Effectively Use DRG Funding to Steer Provider Behaviour?Elena Cantù, Clara Carbone and Eugenio Anessi-Pessina Index