1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Policy Styles
This Handbook provides a systematic overview of the study of policy styles provided by leading experts in the field.
The book unites theoretical bases and advancements in practice, ranging from the fundamentals of policy styles to its place in greater policy studies, and responds to new questions regarding policy style dynamics across a range of government levels and activities, including contemporary trends affecting styles such as the use of digital tools and big data in government. It is a comprehensive reference for students and scholars of public policy.
Key features:
- consolidates and advances the contemporary body of knowledge on policy styles and defines its distinctiveness within broader policy studies;
- provides a detailed picture of national policy styles in a wide range of countries as well as insights concerning sectoral and other kinds of styles within countries, including executive styles and styles of policy advice;
- systematically explores questions dealing with how policy styles impact policy goals, and the realization of policies, including how styles affect instruments choices and impact;
- provides a guide to future comparative research pathways and cross-sectoral dialogue on the concept and practice of policy styles.
The Routledge Handbook Policy Styles is essential reading and an authoritative reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners of public policy, public administration, public management as well as for comparative politics and government, public organizations and individual policy areas such as health policy, welfare policy, industrial policy, environmental policy, among others.
1. Introduction: Studying Policy Styles at the National Level and Beyond
Michael Howlett and Jale Tosun
Section 1: Institutional Styles
Part 1: National Policy Styles: Concepts and Cases
2. National Policy Styles in Theory and Practice
Michael Howlett and Jale Tosun
3. Adversarial Legalism and the American Style of Policymaking
Jeb Barnes
4. Experimentalism as a Policy Style: The Case of China
Jiwei Qian
5. From the ‘Rationalist Consensus’ to ‘Exclusive Incrementalism’: The ‘New’ German Policy Style
Reimut Zohlnhöfer and Jale Tosun
6. Authoritarism as a Policy Style
Aziz Burkhanov
Part 2: Sectoral Policy Styles: Concepts and Cases
7. The Concept of a Sectoral Policy Style
Paul Cairney
8. Three Worlds of Social Policy Styles: Lasting Legacies or a Thing of the Past?
Alexander Horn and Jennifer Shore
9. Policy Styles in Healthcare: Understanding Variations in Health Systems
Azad Singh Bali and Adam Hannah
10. Operationalising and Explaining Environmental Policy Styles
Jale Tosun and Marc Debus
11. Finance and Monetary Policy Styles
Caner Bakir and M. Kerem Coban
Part 3: Administrative and Governance Styles
12. The Concept of Administrative Styles
Louisa Bayerlein, Christoph Knill and Dionys Zink
13. The Styles of Civil Service Systems
John Halligan
14. Empirically Assessing Administrative Styles as Bureaucratic Routines
Louisa Bayerlein, Christoph Knill, Yves Steinebach and Dionys Zink
15. Convergence in Administrative Implementation Styles in the European Union?
Mark Wiering and Tetty Havinga
16. Governance Styles: Re-thinking Governance and Public Policy
Michael Howlett, Giliberto Capano and M. Ramesh
Section 2: Process Styles
Part 4: Agenda-Setting Styles
17. Media-driven Agenda-setting Styles
Max Grömping
18. Interest Groups and Agenda Setting Styles
Darren R. Halpin and Bert Fraussen
19. The Politics of Parliamentary Agenda-Setting Styles
Shaun Bevan, Enrico Borghetto and Henrik Seeberg
Part 5: Formulation, Advisory and Design Styles
20. Policy Formulation Styles: Policy Design and Non-Design
Michael Howlett and Ishani Mukherjee
21. Policy Over- and Underreaction as Policy Style
Moshe Maor
22. Styles of Policy Advice: A Typology for Comparing the Standard Operating Procedures for the Provision of Policy Advice
David Aubin and Marleen Brans
Part 6: Executive and Leadership Decision-Making Styles
23. Executive Policy Styles
Christopher A. Cooper and Patrik Marier
24. Leaders’ and Managers’ Decision-making Styles
Maria Tullia Galanti
25. Varieties of Executive Styles
Kai Wegrich
Part 7: Implementation Styles
26. Instruments and Implementation Styles
Michael Howlett, Anthony Perl and M. Ramesh
27. Regulatory Styles and Their Implications
Christian Adam and Steffen Hurka
28. Implementation Style Dynamics: Changing Patterns of Instrument Choice over Time?
Michael Howlett
Part 8: Evaluation Styles
29. When Policy Learning meets Policy Styles
Claire A. Dunlop and Claudio M. Radaelli
30. Participatory vs Expert Evaluation Styles
Fritz Sager and Céline Mavrot
31. Policy Evaluation Styles
Fabrizio De Francesco and Valérie Pattyn
Conclusion
32. Institutional and Process Dimensions of Policy Styles: Key Insights
Michael Howlett and Jale Tosun
Biography
Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Jale Tosun is Professor at the Institute of Political Science, Heidelberg University, Germany.
"Howlett and Tosun have brought together a leading collection of internationally renowned scholars to produce the definitive compendium on comparative policy styles. The volume provides a rich series of case studies and contrasting approaches to the way governments around the world identify policy options, articulate policy pathways and enact public policy to address vexed and complex policy problems."
Darryl S.L. Jarvis, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
"The concept of policy styles is an important approach to understanding public policies, especially from a comparative perspective. The concept has been used primarily to understand differences among countries, but this book extends the use of the concept to policy domains and to the policy process. This Handbook makes a major contribution to understanding how and why policies differ across countries and across policy areas."
B. Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
