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Why Does Policy Change

Release on 2004-08-02 | by Dr Geoffrey Dudley

In particular, there is the fascinating paradox of how, from conditions of apparent
long-term stability, radical policy change may suddenly erupt with great force. To
understand these processes involves a study of prevailing interests and ...

Author: Dr Geoffrey Dudley
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134701582
Category: Political Science
Page: 272
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Why Does Policy Change

The tension between policy stability and change is a key political phenomenon, but its dynamics have been little understood. Why Does Policy Change? examines and explains the dynamics of major policy change by looking at case studies from British Transport policy since 1945. The significant contrasts between road and rail policies in this period lend themselves perfectly to the authors' theories of what brings about policy turnabout.

Language: en
Pages: 272

Why Does Policy Change?

Authors: Dr Geoffrey Dudley, Director European Public Policy Institute and Professor of European Integration Jeremy Richardson, Jeremy Richardson

Categories: Political Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-08-02 - Publisher: Routledge

Language: en
Pages: 208

Elites, Ideas, and the Evolution of Public Policy

Authors: M. Smyrl, W. Genieys

Categories: Political Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-30 - Publisher: Springer

Seen from the outside, the world of politics and policy-making seems to be in constant flux. Combining theoretical analysis with primary research, this book brings new light to the neglected problem of why individuals with a vested interest in current policies nevertheless promote reform.

Language: en
Pages: 317

How and why Do Policies Change?

Authors: Isabelle de Lovinfosse

Categories: Political Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Peter Lang

How and why do policies change? The author addresses this question by examining the renewable electricity policies of five European countries (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and the UK) over the last thirty years. Employing a comparative approach that is qualitative yet consistent and rigorous, she describes how these countries'

Language: en
Pages: 336

Lobbying and Policy Change

Authors: Frank R. Baumgartner, Jeffrey M. Berry, Marie Hojnacki, Beth L. Leech, David C. Kimball

Categories: Political Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-01 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

During the 2008 election season, politicians from both sides of the aisle promised to rid government of lobbyists’ undue influence. For the authors of Lobbying and Policy Change, the most extensive study ever done on the topic, these promises ring hollow—not because politicians fail to keep them but because lobbies

Language: en
Pages: 534

Public Administration Research Methods

Authors: Warren S. Eller, Brian J. Gerber, Scott E. Robinson

Categories: Political Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-02-21 - Publisher: Routledge

The best decisions made by public managers are based not on instinct, but on an informed understanding of what’s happening on the ground. Policy may be directed by ideology, but it must also be founded on reality. The challenge of making the right decisions as a public manager is often,