Government Institutions: Effects, Changes and Normative Foundations
Research on government institutions is one of the most exciting intellectual areas in political science and policy studies today. Increasingly it is recognized by scholars in these fields that effective and legitimate policies depend on the design and maintenance of complex institutional arrangement...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2000, 2000
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2000 |
| Series: | Library of Public Policy and Public Administration
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I Institutional Change
- Institutional crises and reforms in policy sectors
- Institutional change of welfare states Empirical reality, theoretical obstacles
- The interplay of institutional sectors Negotiating policy change in the Dutch welfare state
- II Testing Institutional Theory
- Dedicated followers of fashion Program emulation at Dutch universities
- Constitutional change in the European Union Parliament’s impact on the reform of the codecision procedure
- III Normative Foundations of Government Institutions
- Legitimate governance within the state
- The Procrustean Bed Of The Rational Organization The works of Taylor, Weber and Fayol revisited
- Oedipus in the Welfare Office Practice, discourse and identity in public administration
- IV Institutional Design
- Cultural bias and framing wicked problems A comparative analysis of structuring the car mobility problem by three institutes for parliamentarian technology assessment
- Institutional change and implementation A dynamic implementation-study of the Dutch General Administrative Law Act
- Organizing Accountability: From Best Practices to Dilemmas in Design
- Design in Context: Applying Institutional Analysis to Social Designing
- Biography