Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy
About the Book Series
In recent years governance has become an increasingly significant source of debate within political theory. This series provides detailed analysis of the exercise of power in institutional contexts and within the public sector. Subjects covered include:
* legitimacy and ethics
* accountability
* decentralization
* political management and public affairs
* management of public resources
Radicalized Real Estate Agents and the Rise and Resilience of the Australian Policy for Real Estate Carry
1st Edition
By John S. F. Wright
August 21, 2025
This is a book about policy change that focusses on a single case study: the rise and resilience of the Australian policy for Real Estate Carry. The text tracks investments of meaning and identity in the Australian policies for Negative Gearing (1987) and the Capital Gains Tax Discount (1999), ...
The Global Politics of Census Taking: Quantifying Populations, Institutional Autonomy, Innovation
1st Edition
Edited
By Walter Bartl, Christian Suter, Alberto Veira-Ramos
June 27, 2025
This book examines in detail the state of the art on census taking to spark a more vivid debate on what some may see as a rather technical – and hence uncontroversial – field of inquiry. Against the backdrop of controversy between instrumental and performative theoretical stances towards census ...
The Structure of Policy Evolution: Painting an Integrated Picture of Change in Policy and Institutional Systems
1st Edition
By Oldrich Bubak
October 08, 2024
This book advances novel tools for the study, analysis, and development of public policy, essential in a world of growing diversity, complexity, and accelerating change. Inspired by research in technology innovation, the book brings its forward applications into the studies of policy and ...
Globally Competent Governance: Strategies for Building Welcoming and Inclusive Communities
1st Edition
By Michael Guo-Brennan
August 01, 2024
Globally Competent Governance explores promising policies and practices developed by local governments and other community leaders across the United States and beyond in their efforts to build welcoming and inclusive communities and globally competent governments. Cities of the future, be they ...
Expertise, Policy-making and Democracy
1st Edition
By Johan Christensen, Cathrine Holst, Anders Molander
May 27, 2024
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 ...
The Culture of Accountability: A Democratic Virtue
1st Edition
By Gianfranco Pasquino, Riccardo Pelizzo
May 27, 2024
This important book explores the cultural conditions that favour political accountability. It examines the channels through which accountability can be secured and the role that accountability plays in ensuring good governance. In addition to problematizing the notion of accountability, the book ...
Coping with Migrants and Refugees: Multilevel Governance across the EU
1st Edition
Edited
By Tiziana Caponio, Irene Ponzo
January 29, 2024
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 ...
Municipal Territorial Reforms of the 21st Century in Europe
1st Edition
By Paweł Swianiewicz, Adam Gendźwiłł, Kurt Houlberg, Jan Erling Klausen
January 29, 2024
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. ...
The Politics of Local Innovation: Conditions for the Development of Innovations
1st Edition
Edited
By Hubert Heinelt, Björn Egner, Nikolaos-Komninos Hlepas
September 25, 2023
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 ...
Localism and the Design of Political Systems
1st Edition
By Rick Harmes
May 31, 2023
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 ...
Policy Styles and Trust in the Age of Pandemics: Global Threat, National Responses
1st Edition
Edited
By Nikolaos Zahariadis, Evangelia Petridou, Theofanis Exadaktylos, Jörgen Sparf
April 08, 2022
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 ...
Varieties of Risk Analysis in Public Administrations: Problem-Solving and Polity Policies in Europe
1st Edition
By Regine Paul
May 12, 2021
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 ...