1st Edition

Making Policy Happen

Edited By Leslie Budd, Julie Charlesworth, Rob Paton Copyright 2006
302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

‘Policy work’ is increasingly conducted by public managers at different levels of seniority, and in a variety of settings. This significant collection of readings focuses on the discussion of how policy work happens, whether that involves bringing a policy-making process to fruition or the implementation of policy. The ideas included here draw on many different academic disciplines... Read more

 Acknowledgements  Introduction to Book  Part 1: Understanding Policy Processes  1. Explaining Policy Change  2. Implementation Studies: Time for a Revival?  3. Public Management and Policy Networks: Foundations of a Network Approach to Governance?  4. Village Life in Civil Service Society: Department-Treasury Bargaining  5. Inheritance Before Choice in Public Policy  Part 2: Governance Contexts  6. The Return of the Public Domain after the Triumph of Markets  7. Governance at Three Levels  8. The State and Innovations in Economic Governance  9. Globalization: What’s New? What’s Not? (And So What?)  10. Taking Embedded Liberalism Global: The Corporate Connection  11. Communitarianism, Deliberation, Direct Democracy and Governance  12. Service Users, Social Policy and the Future of Welfare  Part 3: Instruments and Discourses  13. Regulation Choices  14. Is the Emperor in his Underwear? An Analysis of the Impacts of Public Management Reform  15. The Post-Bureaucratic Organization and Public Service Values  16. Joined-Up Government: The Politics of Partnership  17. Public-Private Partnerships: An Introduction  18. Scrutiny Through Inspection and Audit: Policies, Structures and Processes  19. Measurement and its Pitfalls  Part 4: Leadership in Policy Work  20. Mobilising for Adaptive Work  21. Organizational Strategy in the Public Sector  22. Beyond Command and Control: Redesigning Services from the Bottom Up  23. Acting for a Divided, Uncertain Society

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Leslie Budd, Julie Charlesworth and Rob Paton