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Public Policy
ForthcomiNg
Social democracy
A Comparative Account of the Left Wing
Party Family
Hans Keman, Vrije University, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands
This book focuses on social democracy as a party and a
broad movement as well as a unique political force in
the industrialised world. It provides a critical comparative
survey of when, where, how and why social democracy
developed within established capitalist democracies.
It explains the electoral successes and failures of social
democratic parties, the influence of the party system and
the nature of competition and co-operation between
parties. It also examines the ideological tensions within
social democratic parties between socialists and
reformists.
It features a broad range of case studies including
Australia, Austria Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France,
Greece, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New
Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
United Kingdom as well as comparisons with the United
States, Canada and Japan.
August 2011: 234 x 156: 208pp
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New
Cities, Politics & Power
Simon Parker, University of York, UK
Series: Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism
and the City
Cities, Politics and Power
combines a traditional concern
with how the cities in which we
live are organised and run with
a broader focus on cities and
urban regions as multiple sites
and agents of power.
Selected Contents:
Part 1: 1. Introduction
Part 2: The Political Life of
Cities 2. The Civic City: The
Emergence of Urban Societies
3. The Uncivil City: Violence,
Conflict and Resistance Part 3: urban Governance
4. Political Organisations and the Quest for Urban Power
5. The Government of Cities 6. The Confines of Power:
Cities, Regions and States in a Global Perspective
Part 4: Identity, Communication and Space 7. The
Politics of Urban Identity 8. Information, Communication
and the Networks of Urban Power 9. The Landscapes of
Urban Power Part 5: Conclusion 10. Power and Politics in
the City
November 2010: 234 x 156: 224pp
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Evidence-Based
Policymaking
Insights from Policy-Minded Researchers
and Research-Minded Policymakers
Karen Bogenschneider and Thomas J. Corbett,
both at University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
This book examines ways to
enhance evidence-based
policymaking, striking a balance
between theory and practice.
The attention to theory builds a
greater understanding of why
miscommunication and mistrust
occur. Until we better
appreciate the forces that divide
researchers and policymakers,
we cannot effectively construct
strategies for bringing them
together.
Selected Contents: 1. Exploring the Disconnect Between
Research and Policy 2. Do Policymakers Want Evidence?
Insights from Research-Minded Policymakers 3. When
Researchers Delivered Evidence to Policymakers 4. Who are
These Knowledge Producers and Knowledge Consumers
Anyway? 5. Why Research is Underutilized in Policymaking:
Community Dissonance Theory 6. Breaking Through
Stereotypes of Policymakers 7. What Knowledge Producers
Should Know About the Policymaking Process 8. Barriers to
and Rewards of Cross-Cultural Communication
9. Communicating With Policymakers: Insights from
Policy-Minded Researchers 10. Approaching Policymakers:
Moving Beyond ’What’ to ’How’ 11. Generating Evidence
on Disseminating Evidence to Policymakers 12. Where Do
We Go from Here? Appendix: Methodological Notes.
References
April 2010: 229 x 152: 368pp
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ForthcomiNg
digital Governance
New Technologies for Improving Public
Service
Michael Milakovich, University of Miami, Coral
Gables, Florida, USA
In this timely and thorough analysis, Michael Milakovich
examines the assumptions underlying the ‘e-government
revolution’ in light of the financial exigencies facing
many commercial enterprises, governments and other
organizations. Computer-driven information and
communications technologies are impacting all aspects
of public sector service delivery worldwide and many
governments are moving away from an agency-centric
toward a more citizen-centric approach to offering
online services.
This book explores the transition from electronic
government (e-gov) to digital or d-governance,
emphasizing the importance of citizen participation and
information technology to accomplish the change. The
chapters concentrate on strategies for public
administration organizational transformation and their
implications for improved and measurable government
performance.
August 2011: 229 x 152: 272pp
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The American Political
Economy
Institutional Evolution of Market and State
Marc Allen Eisner, Wesleyan University, USA
Policy debates are often
grounded within the conceptual
confines of a state-market
dichotomy, as though the two
existed in complete isolation. In
this innovative text, Marc Allen
Eisner portrays the state and
the market as inextricably
linked, exploring the variety of
institutions subsumed by the
market and the role that the
state plays in creating the
institutional foundations of
economic activity.
Through a historical approach, Eisner situates the study
of American political economy within a larger
evolutionary-institutional framework that integrates
perspectives in American political development and
economic sociology. This volume provides a rich
understanding of the complexity of U.S. economic policy,
explaining how public policies become embedded in
bureaucracy and reinforced by organized beneficiaries
and public expectations. This path dependent layering
process helps students better understand the underlying
historical dynamics, which provide a clearer sense of the
constraints faced by policymakers now and in the future.
Thorough coverage of the entitlement crisis,
globalization’s impact on the U.S. political economy, and
the recent financial crisis in the final chapters
demonstrate the importance of this historical
institutionalist framework.
Selected Contents: Part 1: Making Sense of the Political
Economy 1. Beyond the Market-State Dichotomy
2. Making Sense of Institutions and Institutional Change
Part 2: The Evolution of the American Political Economy
3. The Progressive Regime and the Regulatory State 4. The
Rise of the New Deal Regime 5. The Postwar Consolidation
of the New Deal Regime 6. The Rise and Pause of the
Keynesian Welfare State 7. The Neoliberal Regime and the
Return of the Market Part 3: Neoliberalism and Its
discontents 8. The Two Welfare States and the Coming
Entitlement Crisis 9. The Global Economy and the
Persistence of the State 10. The Financial Crisis and the
Great Recession 11. Continuity and Change in the American
Political Economy
August 2010: 229 x 152: 256pp
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