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Routledge Studies in Governance and Public Policy


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In recent years governance has become an increasingly significant source of debate within political theory. This series provides detailed analysis of the exercise of power in institutional contexts and within the public sector. Subjects covered include:
* legitimacy and ethics
* accountability
* decentralization
* political management and public affairs
* management of public resources

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Globally Competent Governance Strategies for Building Welcoming and Inclusive Communities

Globally Competent Governance: Strategies for Building Welcoming and Inclusive Communities

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Michael Guo-Brennan
August 01, 2024

Globally Competent Governance explores promising policies and practices developed by local governments and other community leaders across the United States and beyond in their efforts to build welcoming and inclusive communities and globally competent governments. Cities of the future, be they ...

Expertise, Policy-making and Democracy

Expertise, Policy-making and Democracy

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Johan Christensen, Cathrine Holst, Anders Molander
May 27, 2024

This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to debates about expertise, policy-making and democracy. It uniquely combines an overview of recent research on the policy role of experts with discussions in political philosophy and the philosophy of expertise. Starting with the fact that ...

The Culture of Accountability A Democratic Virtue

The Culture of Accountability: A Democratic Virtue

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Gianfranco Pasquino, Riccardo Pelizzo
May 27, 2024

This important book explores the cultural conditions that favour political accountability. It examines the channels through which accountability can be secured and the role that accountability plays in ensuring good governance. In addition to problematizing the notion of accountability, the book ...

The Global Politics of Census Taking Quantifying Populations, Institutional Autonomy, Innovation

The Global Politics of Census Taking: Quantifying Populations, Institutional Autonomy, Innovation

1st Edition

Edited By Walter Bartl, Christian Suter, Alberto Veira-Ramos
February 08, 2024

This book examines in detail the state of the art on census taking to spark a more vivid debate on what some may see as a rather technical – and hence uncontroversial – field of inquiry. Against the backdrop of controversy between instrumental and performative theoretical stances towards census ...

Coping with Migrants and Refugees Multilevel Governance across the EU

Coping with Migrants and Refugees: Multilevel Governance across the EU

1st Edition

Edited By Tiziana Caponio, Irene Ponzo
January 29, 2024

This book provides a comparative overview of asylum seekers’ reception throughout Europe by adopting a theoretical framework based on an analytical approach to the notion of multilevel governance (MLG). It challenges the tendency of the MLG literature to overlook political controversies ...

Municipal Territorial Reforms of the 21st Century in Europe

Municipal Territorial Reforms of the 21st Century in Europe

1st Edition

By Paweł Swianiewicz, Adam Gendźwiłł, Kurt Houlberg, Jan Erling Klausen
January 29, 2024

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of territorial change on the municipal level across all European countries. Taking a thematic and comparative perspective, the book builds on extensive quantitative data and a large survey of academic experts in 33 European countries. ...

The Politics of Local Innovation Conditions for the Development of Innovations

The Politics of Local Innovation: Conditions for the Development of Innovations

1st Edition

Edited By Hubert Heinelt, Björn Egner, Nikolaos-Komninos Hlepas
September 25, 2023

Some cities manage to mobilize innovation potentials and respond to challenges, such as demographic change and immigration as well as economic restructuring, while others do not. This book solves this problem by answering the following question: what are the conditions for the development of local ...

Localism and the Design of Political Systems

Localism and the Design of Political Systems

1st Edition

By Rick Harmes
May 31, 2023

This book examines localism as a political idea and policy approach and explains what localism is about, why it is growing in importance and how it relates to other themes in politics. Illustrated with case studies from the United Kingdom, mainland Europe and the Indian sub-continent, the book ...

The Structure of Policy Evolution Painting an Integrated Picture of Change in Policy and Institutional Systems

The Structure of Policy Evolution: Painting an Integrated Picture of Change in Policy and Institutional Systems

1st Edition

By Oldrich Bubak
February 17, 2023

This book advances novel tools for the study, analysis, and development of public policy, essential in a world of growing diversity, complexity, and accelerating change. Inspired by research in technology innovation, the book brings its forward applications into the studies of policy and ...

Policy Styles and Trust in the Age of Pandemics Global Threat, National Responses

Policy Styles and Trust in the Age of Pandemics: Global Threat, National Responses

1st Edition

Edited By Nikolaos Zahariadis, Evangelia Petridou, Theofanis Exadaktylos, Jörgen Sparf
April 08, 2022

This book explores the reasons behind the variation in national responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, it furthers the policy studies scholarship through an examination of the effects of policy styles on national responses to the pandemic. Despite governments being faced with the same ...

Varieties of Risk Analysis in Public Administrations Problem-Solving and Polity Policies in Europe

Varieties of Risk Analysis in Public Administrations: Problem-Solving and Polity Policies in Europe

1st Edition

By Regine Paul
May 12, 2021

This book sets out a novel conceptual and analytical framework to explain why risk analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and similar analytical tools have gained sizeable currency in public administrations, in comparative perspective. Situated in critical interpretive policy analysis methodology, the ...

Middle Class and Welfare State Making Sense of an Ambivalent Relationship

Middle Class and Welfare State: Making Sense of an Ambivalent Relationship

1st Edition

By Marlon Barbehön, Marilena Geugjes, Michael Haus
April 07, 2020

This book examines the relationship between the middle class and the welfare state. Taking an interpretive approach which understands the middle class as a socially constructed category, it combines discourse analysis, welfare state theory, and interpretive policy analysis in an innovative way to ...

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