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9780415170703

Public Policy Disasters in Europe

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415170703

  • ISBN10:

    0415170702

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-06-26
  • Publisher: Routledge

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This book presents case studies of recent and often spectacular failures of policy including the BSE crisis, the 'Arms to Iraq' affair, the German currency union, and asks what is meant by policy 'disaster'. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information . Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk .

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
ix(1)
List of contributors x(3)
Series editor's preface xiii(2)
Acknowledgements xv
PART I Introduction 1(20)
1 Policy disasters in Europe: an introduction
3(18)
PAT GRAY
PART II The core functions of the state 21(38)
2 The disastrous justice system in Belgium: a crisis of democracy?
23(16)
LODE VAN OUTRIVE
3 The mass media and policy disasters: the IRT disaster and the crisis, in crime-fighting in the Netherlands
39(20)
MARK BOVENS
PAUL 'T HART
SANDER DEKKER
GERDIEN VERHEUVEL
ELINE DE VRIES
PART III The `welfare' state 59(54)
4 The BSE crisis: public health and the `risk society'
61(18)
ROB BAGGOTT
5 Italian public policy and the Southern Question: policy disaster or political disaster?
79(17)
ROBERT SYKES
6 An unavoidable disaster? The German currency union of 1990
96(17)
WOLFGANG SEIBEL
PART IV The state in its international context 113(40)
7 `Errors of an administrative nature'? Explaining the `Arms to Iraq' affair
115(20)
PAT GRAY
8 In defence of the Swedish crown: from triumph to tragedy and back?
135(18)
ERIC STERN
BENGT SUNDELIUS
PART V The European Union level 153(40)
9 The Common Fisheries Policy: a European disaster?
155(20)
ELLA RITCHIE
ANTHONY ZITO
10 The chance of a lifetime? The European Community's foreign and refugee policies towards the conflict in Yugoslavia, 1991-95
175(18)
JOANNE VAN SELM-THORBURN
BERTJAN VERBEEK
PART VI Conclusions 193(22)
11 Explaining policy disasters in Europe: comparisons and reflections
195(20)
MARK BOVENS
PAUL 'T HART
B. GUY PETERS
Index 215

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