This Handbook provides a systematic overview of the study of policy styles provided by leading experts in the field.
The book unites theoretical bases and advancements in practice, ranging from the fundamentals of policy styles to its place in greater policy studies, and responds to new questions regarding policy style dynamics across a range of government levels and activities, including contemporary trends affecting styles such as the use of digital tools and big data in government. It is a comprehensive reference for students and scholars of public policy.
Author(s): Michael Howlett, Jale Tosun
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2020
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Contents
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1 Introduction: studying policy styles at the national level and beyond
Section 1 Institutional styles
Part 1 National policy styles: concepts and cases
2 National policy styles in theory and practice
3 Adversarial legalism and the American style of policymaking
4 Experimentalism as a policy style: the case of China
5 From the ‘rationalist consensus’ to ‘exclusive incrementalism’: the ‘new’ German policy style
6 Authoritarian policy styles: post-Soviet Central Asia
Part 2 Sectoral policy styles: concepts and cases
7 The concept of a sectoral policy style
8 Three worlds of social policy styles: lasting legacies or a thing of the past?
9 Policy styles in healthcare: understanding variations in health systems
10 Operationalising and explaining environmental policy styles
11 Finance and monetary policy styles
Part 3 Administrative and governance styles
12 The concept of administrative styles
13 The styles of civil service systems
14 Empirically assessing administrative styles as bureaucratic routines
15 Convergence in administrative implementation styles in the European Union?
16 Governance styles: re-thinking governance and public policy
Section 2 Process styles
Part 4 Agenda-setting styles
17 Media-driven agenda-setting styles
18 Interest groups and agenda-setting styles
19 The politics of parliamentary agenda-setting styles
Part 5 Formulation, advisory, and design styles
20 Policy formulation styles: policy design and non-design
21 Policy over- and underreaction as policy styles
22 Styles of policy advice: a typology for comparing the standard operating procedures for the provision of policy advice
Part 6 Executive and leadership decision-making styles
23 Executive policy styles
24 Leaders’ and managers’ decision-making styles
25 Varieties of executive styles
Part 7 Implementation styles
26 Instruments and implementation styles
27 Regulatory styles and their implications
28 Implementation style dynamics: changing patterns of instrument choice over time?
Part 8 Evaluation styles
29 When policy learning meets policy styles
30 Participatory vs expert evaluation styles
31 Policy evaluation styles
32 Institutional and process dimensions of policy styles: key insights
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