Policy Styles and Policy-Making: Exploring the Linkages (Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138085677 ISBN 13: 9781138085671

Publisher: Routledge, 2018

Synopsis

Richardson et al.’s respected and seminal Policy Styles in Western Europe (1982) shed valuable light on how countries tend to establish long-term and distinctive ways to make policies that transcend short-term imperatives and issues. This follow-up volume updates those arguments and significantly expands the coverage, consisting of 16 carefully selected country-level case studies from around the world. Furthermore, it includes different types of political regimes and developmental levels to test more widely the robustness of the patterns and variables highlighted in the original book.

The case studies – covering countries from the United States, Canada, Germany and the UK to Russia, Togo and Vietnam – follow a uniform structure, combining theoretical considerations and the presentation of empirical material to reveal how the distinct cultural and institutional features of modern states continue to have implications for the making and implementation of public policy decisions within them.

The book is essential reading for students and scholars of public policy, public administration, comparative politics and development studies.

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About the Author

Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Chair and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Jale Tosun is Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138085677
• ISBN 13: 9781138085671
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 420
• Editor: Howlett Michael, Tosun Jale