Challenges to State Policy Capacity Global Trends and Comparative Perspectives

by Painter, Martin; Pierre, Jon

• ISBN13: 9781403935830
• ISBN10: 1403935831
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-16
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Challenges to State Policy Capacity offers the most timely and comprehensive coverage of contemporary state policy capacity. Drawing on the work by international leading scholars in political science and public administration, the book is indispensable to anyone interested in policy capacity, administrative reform and the state.

Author Biography

Martin Painter is Professor in the Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong.

Jon Pierre is Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

Table of Contents

Notes on the Contributors	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
1 Unpacking Policy Capacity: Issues and Themes	1	(18)
Martin Painter and Jon Pierre
2 Capacity Beyond the Boundary: New Regulatory State, Fragmentation and Relational Capacity	19	(19)
Kanishka Jayasuriya
3 Swings and Roundabouts? Multilevel Governance as a Source of and Constraint on Policy Capacity	38	(14)
B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre
4 The Europeanization of National Policy Capacities	52	(21)
Christoph Knill
5 Policy Instruments and Policy Capacity	73	(19)
B. Guy Peters
6 Machinery of Government and Policy Capacity: The Effects of Specialization and Coordination	92	(20)
Koen Verhoest and Geert Bouckaert
7 Ministries and Agencies: Steering, Meddling, Neglect and Dependency	112	(25)
Christopher Pollitt
8 Autonomization and Policy Capacity: The Dilemmas and Challenges Facing Political Executives	137	(27)
Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid
9 Policy-Making Reforms and Civil Service Systems: An Exploration of Agendas and Consequences	164	(21)
Marleen Brans and Diederik Vancoppenolle
10 Public Service Reform and Policy Capacity: Recruiting and Retaining the Best and the Brightest	185	(20)
Peter Aucoin and Herman Bakvis
11 Policy Capacity and Citizens' Attitudes: 'Developmentalism' in Nine Asian States	205	(20)
Ian Marsh
12 State Capacity in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan: coping with Legitimation, Integration and Performance	225	(30)
Anthony B.L. Cheung
13 Conclusions: Challenges to Policy Capacity	255	(8)
Martin Painter and Jon Pierre
Index	263