Challenges to State Policy Capacity: Global Trends and Comparative Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Martin Painter, Jon Pierre

Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 298
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Challenges to State Policy Capacity offers the most timely and comprehensive coverage of contemporary state policy capacity. Drawing on the work by international leading scholars in political science and public administration, the book is indispensable to anyone interested in policy capacity, administrative reform and the state.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Notes on the Contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
1 Unpacking Policy Capacity: Issues and Themes......Page 12
2 Capacity Beyond the Boundary: New Regulatory State, Fragmentation and Relational Capacity......Page 30
3 Swings and Roundabouts? Multilevel Governance as a Source of and Constraint on Policy Capacity......Page 49
4 The Europeanization of National Policy Capacities......Page 63
5 Policy Instruments and Policy Capacity......Page 84
6 Machinery of Government and Policy Capacity: The Effects of Specialization and Coordination......Page 103
7 Ministries and Agencies: Steering, Meddling, Neglect and Dependency......Page 123
8 Autonomization and Policy Capacity: The Dilemmas and Challenges Facing Political Executives......Page 148
9 Policy-Making Reforms and Civil Service Systems: An Exploration of Agendas and Consequences......Page 175
10 Public Service Reform and Policy Capacity: Recruiting and Retaining the Best and the Brightest......Page 196
11 Policy Capacity and Citizens' Attitudes: 'Developmentalism' in Nine Asian States......Page 216
12 State Capacity in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan: Coping with Legitimation, Integration and Performance......Page 236
13 Conclusions: Challenges to Policy Capacity......Page 266
A......Page 274
C......Page 275
D......Page 278
E......Page 279
F......Page 280
G......Page 281
H......Page 282
I......Page 283
L......Page 284
M......Page 285
N......Page 286
O......Page 287
P......Page 288
R......Page 292
S......Page 293
T......Page 295
U......Page 296
W......Page 297
Z......Page 298

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