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Challenges to Political Decision-making
Dealing with Information Overload, Ignorance and Contested Knowledge
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction and of what seems to constrain and enable actors in taking collectively binding political decisions. The book examines why, in some contexts, individuals consider something as evident and relevant for …
Varieties of Risk Analysis in Public Administrations
Problem-Solving and Polity Policies in Europe
Av Regine Paul
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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This book sets out a novel conceptual and analytical framework to explain why risk analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and similar analytical tools have gained sizeable currency in public administrations, in comparative perspective. Situated in critical interpretive policy analysis methodology, the …
Public Legitimacy of Minority Claims
A Central/Eastern European perspective
Häftad, 2019
505 kr
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Problems involving minorities still constitute a significant challenge for public policies in countries such as the ones on the territories of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Unassimilated, facing the cultural "non-transparency" of their lifeworlds, and usually without autonomy, their …
Public Administration in Central Europe
Ideas as Causes of Reforms
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book examines the extent to which recent transformations of administrative systems and public management mechanisms in Central European (CE) countries serve the purpose of providing effective and efficient public institutions, high quality of public services, respect for the rule of law, and …
Middle Class and Welfare State
Making Sense of an Ambivalent Relationship
Av Marlon Barbehön, Marilena Geugjes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book examines the relationship between the middle class and the welfare state. Taking an interpretive approach which understands the middle class as a socially constructed category, it combines discourse analysis, welfare state theory, and interpretive policy analysis in an innovative way to …
Frontline Delivery of Welfare-to-Work Policies in Europe
Activating the Unemployed
Av Rik van Berkel, Dorte Caswell m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
827 kr
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Welfare-to-work or activation policies refer to programmes aimed at promoting the employability, labour-market and social participation of benefit recipients of working age. Frontline workers delivering these policies are conceived of as policy implementers, as policy makers, and as actors …
Living in an Age of Mistrust
An Interdisciplinary Study of Declining Trust and How to Get it Back
Av Andrew I. Yeo, Matthew N. Green
Häftad, 2019
827 kr
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Trust is a concept familiar to most. Whether we are cognizant of it or not, we experience it on a daily basis. Yet trust is quickly eroding in civic and political life. Americans’ trust in their government has reached all-time lows. The political and social consequences of this decline in trust are …
Localism and the Design of Political Systems
Av Rick Harmes
Inbunden, 2020
2525 kr
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This book examines localism as a political idea and policy approach and explains what localism is about, why it is growing in importance and how it relates to other themes in politics.Illustrated with case studies from the United Kingdom, mainland Europe and the Indian sub-continent, the book …
Politics of Local Innovation
Conditions for the Development of Innovations
Av Hubert Heinelt, Björn Egner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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Some cities manage to mobilize innovation potentials and respond to challenges, such as demographic change and immigration as well as economic restructuring, while others do not. This book solves this problem by answering the following question: what are the conditions for the development of local …
Politics of Local Innovation
Conditions for the Development of Innovations
Av Hubert Heinelt, Björn Egner m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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Some cities manage to mobilize innovation potentials and respond to challenges, such as demographic change and immigration as well as economic restructuring, while others do not. This book solves this problem by answering the following question: what are the conditions for the development of local …
Hybrid Public Policy Innovations
Contemporary Policy Beyond Ideology
Av Mark Fabian, Robert Breunig
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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Political discourse in much of the world remains mired in simplistic ideological dichotomies of market fundamentalism for efficiency versus substantial socialism for equity. Contemporary public policy design is far more sophisticated. It blends market, government and community tools to …
Expertise, Policy-making and Democracy
Av Johan Christensen, Cathrine Holst m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
786 kr
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This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to debates about expertise, policy-making and democracy. It uniquely combines an overview of recent research on the policy role of experts with discussions in political philosophy and the philosophy of expertise. Starting with the fact that …
Expertise, Policy-making and Democracy
Av Johan Christensen, Cathrine Holst m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
329 kr
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This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to debates about expertise, policy-making and democracy. It uniquely combines an overview of recent research on the policy role of experts with discussions in political philosophy and the philosophy of expertise. Starting with the fact that …
Coping with Migrants and Refugees
Multilevel Governance across the EU
Av Tiziana Caponio, Irene Ponzo
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
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This book provides a comparative overview of asylum seekers’ reception throughout Europe by adopting a theoretical framework based on an analytical approach to the notion of multilevel governance (MLG). It challenges the tendency of the MLG literature to overlook political controversies and …
Coping with Migrants and Refugees
Multilevel Governance across the EU
Av Tiziana Caponio, Irene Ponzo
Häftad, 2024
695 kr
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This book provides a comparative overview of asylum seekers’ reception throughout Europe by adopting a theoretical framework based on an analytical approach to the notion of multilevel governance (MLG). It challenges the tendency of the MLG literature to overlook political controversies and …
Semiotic Analysis and Public Policy
Connecting Theory and Practice
Häftad, 2020
724 kr
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Semiotic Analysis and Public Policy evaluates several key areas of public policy that are dependent on narrative, naming, sign, and branding to create meaning. Semiotic analysis, drawing on the work of Saussure, Peirce, and others, allows for creation of a case-oriented model of brand versus …
Policy Styles and Trust in the Age of Pandemics
Global Threat, National Responses
Av Nikolaos Zahariadis, Evangelia Petridou m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
655 kr
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This book explores the reasons behind the variation in national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, it furthers the policy studies scholarship through an examination of the effects of policy styles on national responses to the pandemic. Despite governments being faced with the same …
Policy Styles and Trust in the Age of Pandemics
Global Threat, National Responses
Av Nikolaos Zahariadis, Evangelia Petridou m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2600 kr
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This book explores the reasons behind the variation in national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, it furthers the policy studies scholarship through an examination of the effects of policy styles on national responses to the pandemic. Despite governments being faced with the same …
Localism and the Design of Political Systems
Av Rick Harmes
Häftad, 2023
695 kr
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This book examines localism as a political idea and policy approach and explains what localism is about, why it is growing in importance and how it relates to other themes in politics.Illustrated with case studies from the United Kingdom, mainland Europe and the Indian sub-continent, the book …
Challenges to Political Decision-making
Dealing with Information Overload, Ignorance and Contested Knowledge
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book analyses the ability of individuals to create meaning through communicative interaction and of what seems to constrain and enable actors in taking collectively binding political decisions. The book examines why, in some contexts, individuals consider something as evident and relevant for …
Varieties of Risk Analysis in Public Administrations
Problem-Solving and Polity Policies in Europe
Av Regine Paul
Häftad, 2021
636 kr
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This book sets out a novel conceptual and analytical framework to explain why risk analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and similar analytical tools have gained sizeable currency in public administrations, in comparative perspective. Situated in critical interpretive policy analysis methodology, the …
Decentring Urban Governance
Narratives, Resistance and Contestation
Av Mark Bevir, Kim McKee m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
695 kr
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Decentring Urban Governance seeks to rethink governance not as a particular state formation, but as the diverse policies emerging associated with the impact of modernist social science on policy making, considering the diverse meanings that inspire governing practices across time, space, and policy …
Decentring Health Policy
Learning from British Experiences in Healthcare Governance
Häftad, 2019
746 kr
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Taking a ‘decentred’ approach to the analysis of health policy means being attentive to the historical contingencies and circumstances within which reforms are located, the influence of dominant or elite narratives in the shaping of policy, the local traditions and customary practices through which …
Municipal Territorial Reforms of the 21st Century in Europe
Av Paweł Swianiewicz, Adam Gendźwiłł m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
2525 kr
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This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of territorial change on the municipal level across all European countries. Taking a thematic and comparative perspective, the book builds on extensive quantitative data and a large survey of academic experts in 33 European countries. …
Why Does Policy Change?
Lessons from British Transport Policy 1945-99
Av Geoffrey Dudley, Jeremy Richardson
Inbunden, 2001
2600 kr
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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 …
Public Sector Ethics
Finding and Implementing Values
Av Noel Preston, Charles Sampford
Inbunden, 1998
2525 kr
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This study, with contributions from both scholars and practitioners, examines the theory and practice of public sector ethics across a broad range of environments.
Ethics and Political Practice
Perspectives on Legislative Ethics
Av Noel Preston, Charles Sampford
Inbunden, 1998
3082 kr
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Scrutinizing the practice of legislators and politicians from an ethical perspective, this work looks closely at various methods to facilitate ethical conduct.
Local Partnership and Social Exclusion in the European Union
New Forms of Local Social Governance?
Av John Benington, Mike Geddes
Inbunden, 2001
2525 kr
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This book explores local partnership-based initiatives to tackle European-wide problems of poverty and social exclusion. A major comparative study of the fast developing theme of social exclusion, the contributors look at its causes, effects and at the ways it might be combatted. Based on in-depth, …
Local Governance in England and France
Inbunden, 2001
1530 kr
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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 …
Social Relations and Social Exclusion
Rethinking Political Economy
Inbunden, 2000
2525 kr
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Examining the rational individual, this book develops a new approach to the theory of social relations. It explores how far we make sense of society on the assumption that people act as independent and free individuals, exercising rational choice. Re-examining the family, community, workplace and …
