Comparative Public Policy
1st Edition
Published on 21. August 2013
Book
Hardback
1496 pages
978-1-4462-6973-2 (ISBN)
Description
This collection brings together disparate but individually significant papers on the subject of public policy, ensuring that all the developing threads in this field of work are identified and contextualised by a newly-written introductory essay.
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Edition
Four-Volume Set
Language
English
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London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
2830 gr
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978-1-4462-6973-2 (9781446269732)
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Michael Hill is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Newcastle, UK. Before entering academic life at the University of Reading he was a street-level bureaucrat in a local social assistance office. He later worked on research at the Universities of Oxford and Bristol on the implementation of social policy. Since retiring from Newcastle he has held part-time visiting professorships in London University at Goldsmiths College and Queen Mary College and also in the London School of Economics and the University of Brighton. His long-standing text The Public Policy Process reached its eighth edition in 2021 in a joint version with Frederic Varone of the University of Geneva. In 2020 he published Exploring the World of Social Policy with Zoe Irving of the University of York.
Content
VOLUME ONE: GENERAL THEORIES AND METHODS
Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method - Arend Lijphart
Systematic Process Analysis - Peter Hall
When and How to Use It
Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Public Policy Analysis - Benoit Rihoux, Ilona Rezsoehazy and Damien Bol
An Extensive Review
PART ONE: PATTERNS OF DEMOCRACY
Democracies - Arend Lijphart
Forms, Performance and Constitutional Engineering
The Effects of Negotiation Democracy - Klaus Armingeon
A Comparative Analysis
Negotiation Democracy versus Consensus Democracy - Arend Lijphart
Parallel Conclusions and Recommendations
Lijphart Expanded - AdrianVatter
Three Dimensions of Democracy in Advanced OECD Countries
PART TWO: COMPARATIVE APPROACHES WITH MORE DETAILED INSTITUTIONAL FOCUSES
Institutions in Comparative Policy Research - Fritz Scharpf
The Concept of Policy Style - Jeremy Richardson, Gunnel Gustafsson and Grant Jordan
Not Odious but Onerous - Christopher Pollitt
Comparative Public Administration
Administrative Traditions in Comparative Perspective - Martin Painter and B. Guy Peters
Politico-Administrative Systems - Christopher Pollitt and Geert Bouckaert
The Key Features
Public Administration in East Asia - Anthony Cheung
Legacies, Trajectories and Lessons
PART THREE: GLOBALIZATION
The Causes of Globalization - Geoffrey Garrett
Tracing Connections between Comparative Politics and Globalization - Jeff Haynes
VOLUME TWO: POLICY SYSTEM TYPOLOGIES AND CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES
Welfare-State Regimes - Gosta Esping-Andersen
Work, Welfare and Gender Equality - Alan Siaroff
A New Typology
Rethinking the Western Construction of the Welfare State - Alan Walker and Chack-Kie Wong
Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism or More? - Wil Arts and John Gelisen
Welfare Regime Debate - Emanuele Ferragina and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser
Past, Present, Futures?
PART ONE: VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM
Extract from Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage - Peter Hall and David Soskice
Integrating Welfare and Production Typologies - Martin Schroeder
How Refinements of the Varieties of Capitalism Approach Call for a Combination of Welfare Typologies
Putting the Political back into Political Economy by Bringing the State back in yet again - VivienSchmidt
Varieties of Capitalism - Kathleen Thelen
Trajectories of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity
PART TWO: EUROPEAN UNION
Coping with Europe - Christoph Knill and Andrea Lenschow
The Impact of British and German Administrations on the Implementation of EU Environment Policy
The Implementation of EU Social Policy - Miriam Harlapp and Simone Leiber
The 'Southern Problem' Revisited
Does Europeanization Lead to Policy Convergence? The Role of the Single Market in Shaping National Tax Policies - Achim Kemmerling
PART THREE: COMPARATIVE PUBLIC POLICY OUTSIDE THE OECD 'CLUB'
Welfare States in Developing Countries - Nita Rudra
Unique or Universal?
Degrees of Statehood - Christopher Clapham
Global Welfare Regimes - Miriam Abu Sharkh and Ian Gough
A Cluster Analysis
The Politics of Public Spending in Post-Communist Countries - Romana Careja and Patrick Emmenegger
Post-Communist Welfare Capitalisms - Alfio Cerami and Paul Stubbs
Bringing Institutions and Political Agency back in
VOLUME THREE: POLICY FIELDS: SOCIAL POLICY
PART ONE: SOCIAL PROTECTION
Social Assistance in OECD Countries - Ian Gough et al
Public and Private Policy Change - Daniel Beland and Toshimitsu Shinkawa
Pension Reform in Four Countries
Comparative Political Economy of Long-Term Care for Elderly People - Takeshi Hieda
Political Logic of Universalistic Social Care Policy Development
The Introduction of Long-Term Care Policy Schemes - Hildegard Theobold and Kristine Kern
Policy Development, Policy Transfer and Policy Change
Family Policies in OECD Countries - Olivier Thevenon
A Comparative Analysis
Types of Public Family Support - Monika Mischke
A Cluster Analysis of 15 European Countries
The Political Economy of Child Care in OECD Countries - Giuliano Bonoli and Frank Reber
Explaining Cross-National Variation in Spending and Coverage Rates
PART TWO: HEALTH CARE
Worlds of Welfare and the Health-Care Discrepancy - Clare Bambra
Comparing Health Policy - Viola Burau and Robert Blank
An Assessment of Typologies of Health Systems
Six Countries, Six Health Reform Models? Health Care Reform in Chile, Israel, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan and The Netherlands - Kieke Okma et al
PART THREE: EDUCATION
Review Article - Marius Busemeyer and Christine Tranpusch
Comparative Political Science and the Study of Education
The Welfare State and Education - Gunther Hega and Karl Hokenmaier
A Comparison of Social and Educational Policy in Advanced Industrial Societies
Partisan Politics, the Welfare State and Three Worlds of Human-Capital Formation - Torben Iversen and John Stephens
Higher-Education Policies and Welfare Regimes - Hans Pechar and Lesley Andres
International-Comparative Perspectives
Capitalist Systems, De-Industrialization and the Politics of Public Education - Carsten Jensen
VOLUME FOUR: POLICY FIELDS: ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENT AND OTHERS
PART ONE: ECONOMIC POLICY, LABOUR-MARKET POLICY AND TAXATION
Economic Performance and Institutions - Barbara Vis, Jaap Woldendorp and Hans Keman
Capturing the Dependent Variable
The Political Economy of Active Labor-Market Policy - Giuliano Bonoli
Europe and the Economic Crisis - Michel Lallement
Forms of Labour-Market Adjustment and Varieties of Capitalism
The Evolution of Policy Ideas - Sven Steinmo
Tax Policy in the 20th Century
Tax Policy in an Era of Internationalization - Duane Swank
Explaining the Spread of Neo-Liberalism
PART TWO: ENVIRONMENT POLICY
Explaining National Environmental Performance - Daniel Fiorino
Approaches, Evidence and Implications
Cross-National Differences in Policy Implementation - Sheila Jasanoff
Capitalism, State Economic Policy and Ecological Footprint - Igu OEzler and Brian OEbach
An International-Comparative Analysis
Trend-Setters in Environment Policy - Martin Janicke
The Character and Role of Pioneer Countries
Leaders and Laggards in Environmental Policy - Duncan Lieffernink
A Quantitative Analysis of Domestic Policy Outputs
The Comparative Politics of Climate Change - Kathryn Harrison and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom
PART THREE: OTHER POLICY AREAS
Comparative Analysis of Immigration Policies - Gary Freeman
A Retrospective
Varieties of Residential Capitalism in the International Political Economy - Herman Schwartz and Leonard Seabrooke
Old Welfare States and the New Politics of Housing
Housing Conditions, States, Markets and Households - Michelle Norris and Henryk Domanski
A Pan-European Analysis
Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method - Arend Lijphart
Systematic Process Analysis - Peter Hall
When and How to Use It
Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Public Policy Analysis - Benoit Rihoux, Ilona Rezsoehazy and Damien Bol
An Extensive Review
PART ONE: PATTERNS OF DEMOCRACY
Democracies - Arend Lijphart
Forms, Performance and Constitutional Engineering
The Effects of Negotiation Democracy - Klaus Armingeon
A Comparative Analysis
Negotiation Democracy versus Consensus Democracy - Arend Lijphart
Parallel Conclusions and Recommendations
Lijphart Expanded - AdrianVatter
Three Dimensions of Democracy in Advanced OECD Countries
PART TWO: COMPARATIVE APPROACHES WITH MORE DETAILED INSTITUTIONAL FOCUSES
Institutions in Comparative Policy Research - Fritz Scharpf
The Concept of Policy Style - Jeremy Richardson, Gunnel Gustafsson and Grant Jordan
Not Odious but Onerous - Christopher Pollitt
Comparative Public Administration
Administrative Traditions in Comparative Perspective - Martin Painter and B. Guy Peters
Politico-Administrative Systems - Christopher Pollitt and Geert Bouckaert
The Key Features
Public Administration in East Asia - Anthony Cheung
Legacies, Trajectories and Lessons
PART THREE: GLOBALIZATION
The Causes of Globalization - Geoffrey Garrett
Tracing Connections between Comparative Politics and Globalization - Jeff Haynes
VOLUME TWO: POLICY SYSTEM TYPOLOGIES AND CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES
Welfare-State Regimes - Gosta Esping-Andersen
Work, Welfare and Gender Equality - Alan Siaroff
A New Typology
Rethinking the Western Construction of the Welfare State - Alan Walker and Chack-Kie Wong
Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism or More? - Wil Arts and John Gelisen
Welfare Regime Debate - Emanuele Ferragina and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser
Past, Present, Futures?
PART ONE: VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM
Extract from Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage - Peter Hall and David Soskice
Integrating Welfare and Production Typologies - Martin Schroeder
How Refinements of the Varieties of Capitalism Approach Call for a Combination of Welfare Typologies
Putting the Political back into Political Economy by Bringing the State back in yet again - VivienSchmidt
Varieties of Capitalism - Kathleen Thelen
Trajectories of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity
PART TWO: EUROPEAN UNION
Coping with Europe - Christoph Knill and Andrea Lenschow
The Impact of British and German Administrations on the Implementation of EU Environment Policy
The Implementation of EU Social Policy - Miriam Harlapp and Simone Leiber
The 'Southern Problem' Revisited
Does Europeanization Lead to Policy Convergence? The Role of the Single Market in Shaping National Tax Policies - Achim Kemmerling
PART THREE: COMPARATIVE PUBLIC POLICY OUTSIDE THE OECD 'CLUB'
Welfare States in Developing Countries - Nita Rudra
Unique or Universal?
Degrees of Statehood - Christopher Clapham
Global Welfare Regimes - Miriam Abu Sharkh and Ian Gough
A Cluster Analysis
The Politics of Public Spending in Post-Communist Countries - Romana Careja and Patrick Emmenegger
Post-Communist Welfare Capitalisms - Alfio Cerami and Paul Stubbs
Bringing Institutions and Political Agency back in
VOLUME THREE: POLICY FIELDS: SOCIAL POLICY
PART ONE: SOCIAL PROTECTION
Social Assistance in OECD Countries - Ian Gough et al
Public and Private Policy Change - Daniel Beland and Toshimitsu Shinkawa
Pension Reform in Four Countries
Comparative Political Economy of Long-Term Care for Elderly People - Takeshi Hieda
Political Logic of Universalistic Social Care Policy Development
The Introduction of Long-Term Care Policy Schemes - Hildegard Theobold and Kristine Kern
Policy Development, Policy Transfer and Policy Change
Family Policies in OECD Countries - Olivier Thevenon
A Comparative Analysis
Types of Public Family Support - Monika Mischke
A Cluster Analysis of 15 European Countries
The Political Economy of Child Care in OECD Countries - Giuliano Bonoli and Frank Reber
Explaining Cross-National Variation in Spending and Coverage Rates
PART TWO: HEALTH CARE
Worlds of Welfare and the Health-Care Discrepancy - Clare Bambra
Comparing Health Policy - Viola Burau and Robert Blank
An Assessment of Typologies of Health Systems
Six Countries, Six Health Reform Models? Health Care Reform in Chile, Israel, Singapore, Switzerland, Taiwan and The Netherlands - Kieke Okma et al
PART THREE: EDUCATION
Review Article - Marius Busemeyer and Christine Tranpusch
Comparative Political Science and the Study of Education
The Welfare State and Education - Gunther Hega and Karl Hokenmaier
A Comparison of Social and Educational Policy in Advanced Industrial Societies
Partisan Politics, the Welfare State and Three Worlds of Human-Capital Formation - Torben Iversen and John Stephens
Higher-Education Policies and Welfare Regimes - Hans Pechar and Lesley Andres
International-Comparative Perspectives
Capitalist Systems, De-Industrialization and the Politics of Public Education - Carsten Jensen
VOLUME FOUR: POLICY FIELDS: ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENT AND OTHERS
PART ONE: ECONOMIC POLICY, LABOUR-MARKET POLICY AND TAXATION
Economic Performance and Institutions - Barbara Vis, Jaap Woldendorp and Hans Keman
Capturing the Dependent Variable
The Political Economy of Active Labor-Market Policy - Giuliano Bonoli
Europe and the Economic Crisis - Michel Lallement
Forms of Labour-Market Adjustment and Varieties of Capitalism
The Evolution of Policy Ideas - Sven Steinmo
Tax Policy in the 20th Century
Tax Policy in an Era of Internationalization - Duane Swank
Explaining the Spread of Neo-Liberalism
PART TWO: ENVIRONMENT POLICY
Explaining National Environmental Performance - Daniel Fiorino
Approaches, Evidence and Implications
Cross-National Differences in Policy Implementation - Sheila Jasanoff
Capitalism, State Economic Policy and Ecological Footprint - Igu OEzler and Brian OEbach
An International-Comparative Analysis
Trend-Setters in Environment Policy - Martin Janicke
The Character and Role of Pioneer Countries
Leaders and Laggards in Environmental Policy - Duncan Lieffernink
A Quantitative Analysis of Domestic Policy Outputs
The Comparative Politics of Climate Change - Kathryn Harrison and Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom
PART THREE: OTHER POLICY AREAS
Comparative Analysis of Immigration Policies - Gary Freeman
A Retrospective
Varieties of Residential Capitalism in the International Political Economy - Herman Schwartz and Leonard Seabrooke
Old Welfare States and the New Politics of Housing
Housing Conditions, States, Markets and Households - Michelle Norris and Henryk Domanski
A Pan-European Analysis