Reform in Europe

Contents: The myths of reform, Duco Bannink and Sandra Resodihardjo; The 1984 reform of the European Dairy Policy: financial crisis, French leadership, and the reappraisal of the EC's core values, Gerard Breeman; The rewards of policy legacy: why Dutch social housing did not follow the British path, Taco Brandsen and Jan-Kees Helderman; The introduction of national quality policies: a comparison of Denmark and the Netherlands, Mirjan Oude Vrielink-van Heffen, Wendy van der Kraan and Bente Bjornholt; Reforming Germany's constitutional right to asylum: a shifting paradigm, Fleur Alink; The Republic of Ireland's ban on smoking in the workplace: reframing the smoking issue, Melvyn Read; The reform of Dutch disability insurance: a crisis-induced shift of preferences and possibilities, Duco Bannink, Sanneke Kuipers and Tineke Lantink; Modernizing English local government: voice, loyality, and exit in the demise of the committee system, Francesca Gains; District development planning in Heidelberg: realizing change through political leadership and community involvement, Michael Haus; Safety policy reform in Rotterdam: changing priorities in big city governance, Julien van Ostaaijen and Frank Hendriks; Explaining reform in Europe: comparison, patterns and reflections, Liesbet Heyse, Berber Lettinga and Martijn Groenleer; Epilogue: friction, resistance, and breakthroughs, Frank Baumgartner; Index.