ABSTRACT
Richardson et al.’s respected and seminal Policy Styles in Western Europe (1982) shed valuable light on how countries tend to establish long-term and distinctive ways to make policies that transcend short-term imperatives and issues. This follow-up volume updates those arguments and significantly expands the coverage, consisting of 16 carefully selected country-level case studies from around the world. Furthermore, it includes different types of political regimes and developmental levels to test more widely the robustness of the patterns and variables highlighted in the original book.
The case studies – covering countries from the United States, Canada, Germany and the UK to Russia, Togo and Vietnam – follow a uniform structure, combining theoretical considerations and the presentation of empirical material to reveal how the distinct cultural and institutional features of modern states continue to have implications for the making and implementation of public policy decisions within them.
The book is essential reading for students and scholars of public policy, public administration, comparative politics and development studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |21 pages
Introduction
part I|90 pages
“Closed” bureaucratic-democratic regimes
chapter 2|20 pages
Policy styles in the United Kingdom
chapter 5|24 pages
Policy styles in Mexico
part II|86 pages
“Open” democratic-popular regimes
chapter 7|20 pages
Over-promising and under-delivering
chapter 9|19 pages
The American policy style(s)
part III|88 pages
“Closed” one-party authoritarian regimes
chapter 13|24 pages
The national policymaking style of the United Arab Emirates
part IV|88 pages
“Open” electorally competitive authoritarian regimes
part |22 pages
Conclusion