Forty years ago, central government was seen as the key actor in the making of public policy. Today, it is often portrayed as a parochial council, impotent...
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Forty years ago, central government was seen as the key actor in the making of public policy. Today, it is often portrayed as a parochial council, impotent in the face of uncontrollable global forces. This textbook analyses the changing nature of public policy over the last three decades, looking at the impact of governance and offering a theoretically and critically informed account of the changing nature of the state. Taking the shift from government to governance as its theme, the book provides a critical assessment of recent theoretical debates on policy-making: the New Right reforms of the state; the impact of Europeanization, internationalization, and globalization; and most recently, the process of devolution under the Blair Labour government. In addition, a series of new and accessible case studies of policy-making are presented in box form, using the authors own wide-ranging interviews with over 200 ministers, civil servants, and interest groups-providing the reader with solid empirical material to illuminate the chapters.
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Introduction : public policy in a changing world
Interpreting governance
Interpreting the modern state
From modernity to crisis
Internal challenges to the modern state: the new right
External challenges to the modern state 1: globalization
External challenges to the modern state 2 : europeanization
Governance and civil society
Changing relations between ministers and civil servants
Dr David Richards is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Liverpool. Professor Martin J. Smith is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield.
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