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
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 ...
Middle Class and Welfare State: Making Sense of an Ambivalent Relationship
1st Edition
By Marlon Barbehön, Marilena Geugjes, Michael Haus
January 21, 2023
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 ...
Public Administration in Central Europe: Ideas as Causes of Reforms
1st Edition
Edited
By Stanisław Mazur
January 21, 2023
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 ...
Public Enterprise and Local Place: New Perspectives on Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By John Fenwick, Lorraine Johnston
January 21, 2023
This book presents the key interactions in local government and public enterprise, drawing together the challenges for local governance in the practice of public entrepreneurship and its response to collaboration, place and place making. Specifically, this book includes the impact of local ...
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 ...
Europeanisation, Good Governance and Corruption in the Public Sector: The Case of Turkey
1st Edition
By Digdem Soyaltin
September 30, 2021
When and to what extent external actors, especially the EU, contribute to induce legal and administrative changes and help domestic authorities address the disconnect between good governance standards and corrupt practices? Comparing external promotion of anti-corruption norms and provisions in ...
International Health Worker Migration and Recruitment: Global Governance, Politics and Policy
1st Edition
By Nicola Yeates, Jane Pillinger
September 30, 2021
This book is the first comprehensive study of international health worker-migration and -recruitment from the perspective of global governance, policy and politics.Covering 70 years of history of the development of this global policy field, this book presents new and previously unpublished data, ...
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 ...
Challenges to Political Decision-making: Dealing with Information Overload, Ignorance and Contested Knowledge
1st Edition
By Hubert Heinelt
December 18, 2020
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 ...
Semiotic Analysis and Public Policy: Connecting Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Christopher L. Atkinson
December 18, 2020
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 ...
Hybrid Public Policy Innovations: Contemporary Policy Beyond Ideology
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Fabian, Robert Breunig
August 14, 2020
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 ...
Decentring Health Policy: Learning from British Experiences in Healthcare Governance
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Bevir, Justin Waring
December 12, 2019
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...