King Trends And the Future of Public Policy

by Compston, Hugh

• ISBN13: 9781403987709
• ISBN10: 140398770X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780230627437
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-11-14
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Where is public policy in EU countries heading? This study answers this question by building a synoptic picture of the future directions in which public policy is likely to move by using contemporary theories of policy-making to deduce the implications for public policy of 'king trends': those technological, economic, environmental and social trends that can be empirically verified, affect the lives of large numbers of people and are expected by relevant experts to continue for at least the next 20 years or so. Book jacket.

Author Biography

HUGH COMPSTON is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Cardiff University.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vi
List of Abbreviations	viii
Acknowledgements	x
Introduction: Policy Networks and Advocacy Coalitions in Action	1	(18)
Part I The March of New Technology	19	(80)
1 Information and Communications Technology	21	(25)
2 Biotechnology	46	(14)
3 Healthcare Technology	60	(16)
4 Military Technology	76	(23)
Part II Growing Affluence and Structural Change	99	(132)
5 Growth and Diversification of Production and Consumption	101	(14)
6 Greater Energy Use	115	(15)
7 Increasing Mobility	130	(16)
8 The Shift to Services	146	(13)
9 The Growth of Women's Employment	159	(9)
10 The Expansion of Trade	168	(14)
11 The Internationalization of Production	182	(22)
12 The Internationalization of Finance	204	(13)
13 The Expansion of Mass Media	217	(14)
Part III Climate Change	231	(14)
14 Climate Change	233	(12)
Part IV Ageing, Education and Social Liberalization	245	(58)
15 Population Ageing	247	(13)
16 Rising Levels of Education	260	(12)
17 Smaller Households	272	(8)
18 Secularization	280	(11)
19 Sexual Liberalization	291	(12)
Part V The Big Picture	303	(18)
20 The Shape of Things To Come	305	(16)
References	321	(27)
Index	348