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
Decentring Urban Governance: Narratives, Resistance and Contestation
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Bevir, Kim McKee, Peter Matthews
December 12, 2019
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...
Living in an Age of Mistrust: An Interdisciplinary Study of Declining Trust and How to Get it Back
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew I. Yeo, Matthew N. Green
July 29, 2019
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...
Frontline Delivery of Welfare-to-Work Policies in Europe: Activating the Unemployed
1st Edition
Edited
By Rik van Berkel, Dorte Caswell, Peter Kupka, Flemming Larsen
July 12, 2019
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 ...
The Public Legitimacy of Minority Claims: A Central/Eastern European perspective
1st Edition
By Plamen Makariev
January 17, 2019
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 ...
Inclusive Growth, Development and Welfare Policy: A Critical Assessment
1st Edition
Edited
By Reza Hasmath
September 10, 2018
The recent global financial crisis has increased the scope of poverty and inequality. The gap between the richest and poorest nations has become wider. National income inequality has also been on the rise. The prospect of a shift in designing and implementing development and welfare policies is ...
Local Governance in England and France
1st Edition
By Alistair Cole, Peter John
August 14, 2018
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 ...
Marriage and Values in Public Policy: Conflicts in the UK, the US and Australia
1st Edition
By Elizabeth van Acker
August 14, 2018
Marriage is a site of political conflict. It is a controversial issue in the UK, Australia and the US where there is a clash of values between neoliberal governments and diverse groups either strongly opposing or supporting marriage. In the meantime, fewer couples are marrying, while other family ...
Transformational Public Policy: A new strategy for coping with uncertainty and risk
1st Edition
By Mark Matthews
June 28, 2018
Transformational Public Policy examines how governments can more effectively handle uncertainty and risk in an uncertain and changing world. Unpredictable and changing circumstances often bring nasty surprises that can increase waste in governance and public debt. This book illustrates how new ...
Interpreting Governance, High Politics, and Public Policy: Essays commemorating Interpreting British Governance
1st Edition
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By Nick Turnbull
March 07, 2018
Interpreting Governance, High Politics, and Public Policy offers the latest perspectives on the interpretive approach to governance and public policy research. This book commemorates more than a decade of governance research by Mark Bevir and R.A.W. Rhodes, the leading exponents of ...
Governmentality after Neoliberalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Mark Bevir
February 05, 2018
Neoliberalism has had a major impact on public policy but it has also perhaps obscured the equally dramatic spread of other policy tools based on significantly different forms of social science. This book therefore explores the mixture of social technologies that have arisen since neoliberalism, ...
Rethinking Governance: Ruling, rationalities and resistance
1st Edition
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By Mark Bevir, R. A. W. Rhodes
February 05, 2018
This volume explores new directions of governance and public policy arising both from interpretive political science and those who engage with interpretive ideas. It conceives governance as the various policies and outcomes emerging from the increasing salience of neoclassical and institutional ...
Political Engagement of the Young in Europe: Youth in the crucible
1st Edition
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By Peter Thijssen, Jessy Siongers, Jeroen Van Laer, Jacques Haers, Sara Mels
October 23, 2017
Although many scholars are convinced of the apparent civic disengagement of youth, others suggest that civic participation of young people is stable and increasingly expressed through non-institutionalized forms of practicing politics. This book makes a key contribution to this discussion by ...