Making Policy Happen

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."

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