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Policy Consultancy in Comparative Perspective
Sheds new light on the use of external public policy consultants from an interdisciplinary and international comparative approach.
The Comparative Politics of Education
This book provides new evidence on teachers unions and their political activities across nations, and offers a foundation for a comparative politics of education.
The Comparative Politics of Immigration
Ellermann examines the development of immigration policies in four democracies from the postwar era to the present.
Convergence and Diversity in the Governance of Higher Education
This volume explores convergence and divergence in the governance of higher education systems from a global and comparative perspective.
Public Governance as Co-creation
We need new governance solutions to help us improve public policies and services, solve complex societal problems, strengthen social communities and reinvigorate democracy. By changing how government engages with citizens and stakeholders, co-creation provides an attractive and feasible approach to governance that goes beyond the triptych of public bureaucracy, private markets and self-organized communities. Inspired by the successful use of co-creation for product and service design, this book outlines a broad vision of co-creation as a strategy of public governance. Through the construction of platforms and arenas to facilitate co-creation, this strategy can empower local communities, enhance broad-based participation, mobilize societal resources and spur public innovation while building ownership for bold solutions to pressing problems and challenges. The book details how to use co-creation to achieve goals. This exciting and innovative study combines theoretical argument with illustrative empirical examples, visionary thinking and practical recommendations.
Policy Controversies and Political Blame Games
Analyses and compares political blame games in Western democracies to show how democratic political systems manage policy controversies.
Health Policy in Asia
Studies the design of health systems in Asia and assesses their efforts to achieve and sustain universal health care.
Governing from Below
Throughout the world more policy making and the politics that shape it take place in the urban regions where most people live. This book draws on eleven case studies of similar but disparate urban regions in France, Germany and the United States from the 1960s to the 1990s. It documents the growth of this urban governance and develops a pioneering analysis of its causes and consequences. It traces the origins to the expansion and devolution of policy making, to local business mobilization and institutional interests in high-tech and service activities, and the incorporation of local social movements. Nation-states shape the possibilities for this urban governance, but operate increasingly as infrastructures for local initiatives. Where urban governance has succeeded in combining environmental quality and social inclusion with local prosperity, local officials have built on supportive infrastructures from higher levels, the local economy, civil society, and favourable positions in the global economy.
Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences
This book systematically investigates the past accomplishments and future agendas of contemporary comparative-historical analysis. Its core essays explore three major issues: the accumulation of knowledge in the field over the past three decades, the analytic tools used to study temporal process and historical patterns, and the methodologies available for making inferences and for building theories. The introductory and concluding essays situate the field as a whole by comparing it to alternative approaches within the social sciences. Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences will serve as an invaluable resource for scholars in the field, and it will represent a challenge to many other social scientists - especially those who have raised skeptical concerns about comparative-historical analysis in the past.
Comparative Governance
Proposes a new, advanced theory of governance, emphasizing the interactions of the state with other actors.
