Success and Failure in Public Governance: A Comparative Analysis (New Horizons in Public Policy series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184064088X ISBN 13: 9781840640885

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

Why do some policies succeed so well while others, in the same sector or country, fail dramatically? The aim of this book is to answer this question and provide systematic research on the nature, sources and consequences of policy failure.

The expert contributors analyse and evaluate the success and failure of four policy areas (Steel, Health Care, Finance, HIV and the Blood Supply) in six European countries, namely France, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, Spain and Sweden. The book is therefore able to compare success and failure across countries as well as policy areas, enabling a test of a variety of theoretical assumptions about policy making and government. The book also sheds more light on the legitimacy of governance in Western Europe and goes beyond understanding the concepts of success and failure to explaining their genesis empirically.

Success and Failure in Public Governance will be of interest to academics and researchers of political science, public policy and public administration as well as to practitioners of public policy.

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About the Author

Edited by Mark Bovens, Professor of Public Administration, Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University, the Netherlands, Paul ’t Hart, Member of the Scientific Council for Government Policy of the Netherlands, and Professor of Public Administration, Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University, the Netherlands and B. Guy Peters, Maurice Falk Professor of Government, University of Pittsburgh, US

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184064088X
• ISBN 13: 9781840640885
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 712
• Editor: Bovens Mark, ’t Hart Paul, Peters B. Guy