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Success and failure in public governance : a comparative analysis / edited by Mark Bovens, Paul 't Hart, B. Guy Peters ; section editors, Erik Albæk ... [and others].

Van Pelt Library JN94.A792 P53 2001
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Bovens, M. A. P.
Hart, Paul 't.
Peters, B. Guy.
Series:
New horizons in public policy
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Political planning--Europe, Western--Case studies.
Political planning.
Financial institutions--Government policy.
Financial institutions.
Medical policy.
Steel industry and trade--Government policy.
Steel industry and trade.
Politics and government.
Europe, Western--Politics and government--Case studies.
Europe, Western.
Steel industry and trade--Government policy--Europe, Western--Case studies.
Medical policy--Europe, Western--Case studies.
Financial institutions--Government policy--Europe, Western--Case studies.
Western Europe.
Genre:
Case studies.
Physical Description:
xix, 688 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Place of Publication:
Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2001]
Contents:
Part I Evaluating and Explaining Public Governance: General Introduction
1 The state of public governance / Mark Bovens, Paul 't Hart, B. Guy Peters 3
2 Analysing governance success and failure in six European states / Mark Bovens, Paul 't Hart, B. Guy Peters 12
Part II Managing Decline: Public Policy and the Steel Sector / Section Editors: Geoffrey Dudley and Jeremy Richardson
3 Managing decline: governing national steel production under economic adversity / Geoffrey Dudley, Jeremy Richardson 33
4 France and the restructuring of the steel industry: heroic policies and everyday successes / Luisa Perrotti 45
5 Success and failure in the Germany steel industry: crisis and consensus / Hannah Tooze 68
6 A 'Dutch miracle' in steel policy? Laissez-faire intervention, wage restraint and the evolution of Hoogovens / Hans Schenk 84
7 Steel restructuring in Spain, 1979-95: the attrition game / Gabriel Saro Jauregui, Mikel Navarro Arancegui 105
8 Restructuring the Swedish steel industry: learning through path dependency? / Jon Pierre 126
9 British Steel and the British government: problematic learning as a policy style / Geoffrey Dudley, Jeremy Richardson 141
Part III Managing Reform: Public Policy and the Health Sector / Section Editor: Michael Moran
10 Managing reform: controlling the medical profession in an era of austerity / Michael Moran 171
11 Paradoxes of health care reform in France: state autonomy and policy paralysis / David Wilsford 184
12 Medical reform in Germany: the 1993 health care legislation as an impromptu success / Viola Burau 199
13 Controlling medical specialists in the Netherlands: delegating the dirty work / Margo Trappenburg, Mariska de Groot 219
14 The Spanish state and the medical profession in primary health care: doctors, veto points and reform attempts / Ana Rico, Marc Balaguer, Pablo Gonzalez Alvarez 238
15 Making health policy in Sweden: the rise and fall of the 1994 family doctor scheme / Peter Garpenby 259
16 Reforming the medical profession in the United Kingdom, 1989-97: structural interests in health care / Stephen Harrison 277
Part IV Managing Innovation: Public Policy and the Financial Sector / Section Editor: Andreas Busch
17 Managing innovation: regulating the banking sector in a rapidly changing environment / Andreas Busch 311
18 Governing French banking: regulatory reform and the Credit Lyonnais fiasco / William D. Coleman 326
19 Banking supervision and deposit insurance in Germany, 1974-84: keeping the state at arm's length / Andreas Busch 343
20 Structural regulation of the banking industry in the Netherlands: a shift of power, 1980-95 / Leo A. van Eerden 363
21 The liberalization of finance in Spain: from interventionism to the market / Sofia A. Perez 383
22 The Swedish financial sector, 1985-92: policy-assisted boom, bust and rescue / Bent Sofus Tranoy 401
23 The transformation of financial regulation in the United Kingdom: the Barings case / Adam Tickell 419
Part V Managing Crisis: HIV and the Blood Supply / Section Editor: Erik Alboek
24 Managing crisis: HIV and the blood supply / Erik Alboek 453
25 Crisis governance in France: the end of sectoral corporatism? / Monika Steffen 470
26 The case of HIV and blood supply in Germany: programmatic failures and political successes / Patrick Kenis 489
27 The Dutch reaction to contaminated blood: an example of cooperative governance / Bert de Vroom 508
28 Coping with HIV transmission in Spain: the case of blood control failure / Jacint Jordana 532
29 Protecting the Swedish blood supply against HIV: crisis management without scandal / Erik Alboek 551
30 HIV and the blood supply in the United Kingdom: professionalization and pragmatism / Richard Freeman 567
Part VI Comparisons, Conclusions, Reflections
31 Patterns of governance: sectoral and national comparisons / Mark Bovens, Paul 't Hart, B. Guy Peters, Erik Alboek, Andreas Busch, Geoffrey Dudley, Michael Moran, Jeremy Richardson 593
32 The state of governance in six European states / Mark Bovens, Paul 't Hart, B. Guy Peters 641.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
184064088X
OCLC:
45320812

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