Comparing policy networks / edited by David Marsh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marsh, David, 1946-

Series:

Public policy and management

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Policy sciences.

Social sciences--Network analysis.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

x, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1998.

Summary:

Discussions of policy networks are becoming increasingly common in the analysis of public policy in, for instance, the UK, Europe and the USA. However, while there is general agreement that policy networks exist (operating as links between actors within a particular policy domain) there is much less agreement as to the explanatory of the concept or the broader significance of the growth of networks.

Contents:

1 The development of the policy network approach / David Marsh 3

Part 1 Theoretical developments

2 Policy networks: myth, metaphor and reality / Guy Peters 21

3 The tangled webs we weave: the discourse, strategy and practice of networking / Colin Hay 33

4 Explaining policy outcomes: integrating the policy network approach with macro-level and micro-level analysis / Carsten Daugbjerg, David Marsh 52

Part 2 Policy networks in comparative perspective

5 Similar problems, different policies: policy networks and environmental policy in Danish and Swedish agriculture / Carsten Daugbjerg 75

6 Offshore health and safety policy in the North Sea: policy networks and policy outcomes in Britain and Norway / Michael Cavanagh 90

7 Policing policy and policy networks in Britain and New Zealand / Elizabeth McLeay 110

8 Sociometric mapping techniques and the comparison of policy networks: economic decision making in Leeds and Lille / Peter John, Alistair Cole 132

Part 3 Policy networks at the European level

9 Transnational local authority networking within the European Union: passing fashion or new paradigm? / John Benington, Janet Harvey 149

10 Issue networks and the environment: explaining European Union environmental policy / Elizabeth Bomberg 167

11 The utility and future of policy network analysis / David Marsh 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [198]-215) and index.

ISBN:

0335196470

0335196462

OCLC:

38016540