Challenges to State Policy Capacity: Global Trends and Comparative Perspectives

Globalization and New Public Management pose major challenges to the policy capacity of the state. Challenges to State Policy Capacity offers the most timely and comprehensive coverage of contemporary state policy capacity. Drawing on the work by international leading scholars in political science and public administration, the book is indispensable to anyone interested in policy capacity, administrative reform and the state.

Author: M. Painter
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/17/2004
Pages: 287
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781403935830

About the Author
PETER AUCOIN Dalhousie University, Canada HERMAN BAKVIS Dalhousie University, Canada GEERT BOUCKAERT Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium MARLEEN BRANS Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium ANTHONY B. L. CHEUNG City University of Hong Kong TOM CHRISTENSEN University of Oslo, Norway KANISHKA JAYASURIYA City University of Hong Kong CHRISTOPH KNILL University of Jena, Germany PER LAEGRID University of Bergen, Norway IAN MARSH Australian National University, Australia B. GUY PETERS University of Pittsburgh, USA CHRISTOPHER POLLITT Erasmus University, The Netherlands DIEDERIK VANCOPPENOLLE Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium KOEN VERHOEST Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium