Policy analysis in Germany.
This comprehensive study, part of the International Library of Policy Analysis, brings together for the first time a systemic overview of policy analysis activities in Germany, written by leading experts in the field.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2013.
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Colección: | International library of policy analysis.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Policy analysis in Germany; Contents; List of tables and figures; Tables; Figures; Notes on contributors; 1. Policy analysis in Germany: past, present and future of the discipline; The past: policy analysis as a discipline in Germany; The present: exemplary findings; The future: German policy analysis on its way towards further professionalisation; 2. Historical forerunners of policy analysis in Germany; Introduction; The discovery of policy and the heritage of Aristotle; 'Reason of state' and 'sovereignty' as new concepts in political theory.
- The special German development of a Polizei-Staat (police state)Conclusion; 3. The development of policy analysis in Germany: practical problems and theoretical concepts; Introduction; Policy: the missing concept; Planning and the organisation of government; Comparative policy analysis; Implementation and policy instruments; Policy fields and networks; Arguments and ideas; Institutions and governance; Conclusion; 4. Professionalisation of policy analysis in Germany: on the way or faraway?; Introduction; Academic and applied policy analysis.
- Professionalisation of academic and applied policy analysisConclusion; 5. Methods and study types in German policy analysis; Introduction; Analysis of single cases; Comparative case studies; Qualitative comparative analysis; Macro-quantitative comparisons; Policy network analysis; Conclusion and outlook; 6. Policy analysis in the German-speaking countries: common traditions, different cultures, in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; Introduction; Shared traditions; Policy analysis in Germany; Policy analysis in Austria; Policy analysis in Switzerland; Conclusion.
- 7. Federal government: permanent in-house capacities
- life within the 'apparatus'Introduction; Reform policy, planning and political administrative capacities: a short history since the mid-1960s; Institutional basis of federal policy-making; Strengths and weaknesses: policy-making in the information society; 8. Statist policy advice: policy analysis in the German Länder; Agenda-setting and policy analysis under institutional restrictions; Decision-making processes; Policy instruments; Policy innovation; Conclusion.
- 9. Local policy processes: economisation, professionalisation, democratisationLocal policy processes: a complex institutional framework1; Between consociational and competitive democracy; Trends and constraints; Summary and perspectives; 10. Federal government in Germany: temporary, issue-related policy advice; Introduction: increasing policy advice in Germany; Background: developments and debates on policy advice in Germany; Bündnis für Arbeit2 and think tanks as components of the Berliner Räterepublik.