| Description | | - This is the first textbook to reflect on the changing environment in which policy is made by central government
- Explores the complex notion of governance in an accessible and readable manner
- Analyses contemporary reforms of central government, in particular, the present Blair Government's attempt at 'joined-up' government
- Explores the most recent theoretical debates on policy-making, providing a critical assessment of current debates
- Presents a series of new, accessible case studies of policy-making in box form, utilising the authors' own wide-ranging interviews with over 200 ministers, civil servants and interest group representatives in the last five years
| 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 examines the changes that have taken place in the way central government controls policy making.
Taking the shift from government to governance as its theme, the book
explores a series of key issues: 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.
The book includes a series of policy making case studies throughout, drawing on the authors' own wide-ranging interviews with ministers, civil servants and interest groups,
providing the reader with solid empirical material with which to illuminate the chapters.
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Readership: 2nd/3rd year undergraduate students, MA students taking a course in British public policy, the modern state or governance
| Contents |
1.
Introduction: Public Policy in a Changing World
2.
Interpreting Governance
3.
Interpreting the Modern State
4.
From Modernity to Crisis
5.
Internal challenges to the Modern State : The New Right
6.
External challenges to the Modern State I: Globalization
7.
External challenges to the Modern State II: Europeanization
8.
Governance and Civil Society
9.
Changing Relations between Ministers and Civil Servants
10.
Governance and New Labour
11.
Conclusion: Governance, Power and Public Policy
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
David Richards, Lecturer in Politics, University of Liverpool and
Martin J. Smith, Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield
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