Governance
Fatherhood in the Nordic Welfare States
Comparing Care Policies and Practice
In this topical book, expert scholars from the Nordic countries, the UK and the US demonstrate how modern fatherhood is supported in Nordic countries through family and social policies, and how these shape and influence the images, roles and practices of fathers in a diversity of family settings and variations of fatherhoods.
Understanding Street-Level Bureaucracy
Understanding street-level bureaucracy gathers internationally acclaimed scholars to provide a state of the art account of theory and research on modern street-level bureaucracy, filling an important gap in the literature on public policy delivery.
Social Movements and Referendums from Below
Direct Democracy in the Neoliberal Crisis
Social movements formed in response to austerity measures have played an increasingly important role in referendums. The book uses unique case studies to illustrate the ways the social movements have affected the referendums’ dynamic and results. It also addresses the way in which participation from below has had a transformative impact.
Directly Elected Mayors in Urban Governance
Impact and Practice
This book is about the practices, roles and impacts of directly elected mayors in the cities that they govern. The volume draws on recent, original research evidence, to locate the debates on directly elected mayors in context in Europe, the US, and Australasia.
Did the Millennium Development Goals Work?
Meeting Future Challenges with Past Lessons
Leading scholars and practitioners from a range of backgrounds and regions use area-specific case studies to critically assess the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) project and its impact.
Social Policy and Welfare Pluralism
Selected Writings of Robert Pinker
This book presents the first collection of Robert Pinker’s influential essays in one edited volume, discussing the key concepts underpinning the study of social policy and the ways in which welfare theories and ideologies together with public expectations have shaped the political processes of policy making.
Corporate Elites and the Reform of Public Education
Leading scholars combine theory and case studies to reveal how elite corporations are increasingly influencing how public education provision and services are delivered across the world.
Policy Analysis in Australia
Policy Analysis in Australia offers a distinctly Australian interpretation of policy scholarship, taking a broad view of policy analysis capacity, both within institutions at all levels of government, and beyond government in the media, political parties, business, and non-government associations.
Policy Analysis in the Netherlands
This book, part of the International Library of Policy Analysis, provides an overview of developments in policy analysis in both academia and practice at various levels of governance and offers an overview of the current state of affairs.
Policy Analysis in the Czech Republic
As the first comprehensive assessment of policy analysis in both the Czech Republic and the post-communist Central and Eastern European region, this important addition to the ILPA Series provides a unique insight which offers an indispensable guide for researchers, policy makers and students.
Policy Analysis in Belgium
Presents the first systematic overview of policy analysis activities in Belgium. Contributors from both sides of the Dutch-French language border use original empirical data to provide a comprehensive, comparative study of multi-level policy-making both within and outside government.