Description
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.
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
Reviews
'Success and Failure in Public Governance fills a void . . . This valuable book should . . . prompt research that moves away from the present, somewhat static, institutional analysis toward studies that focus on political actors and their crafting of strategies that more or less successfully meet policy challenges that always contain a poisonous mixture of programmatic and political problems, given the prevailing political and institutional constraints.' -- Jorgen Gronnegaard Christensen, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
Book Information
ISBN 9781843762171
Author Mark Bovens
Format Paperback
Page Count 712
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
