Policy styles and policy-making: exploring the linkages
In: Routledge Textbooks in Policy Studies
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Policy styles: a new approach -- Part I "Closed" bureaucratic-democratic regimes -- 2 Policy styles in the United Kingdom: a majoritarian UK vs. devolved consensus democracies? -- 3 Policy styles in Germany: still searching for the rationalist consensus? -- 4 The scholar-official policy nexus and Confucian policy styles in South Korea -- 5 Policy styles in Mexico: still muddling through centralized bureaucracy, not yet through the democratic transition -- Part II "Open" democratic-popular regimes -- 6 The co-evolutionary policy style of Brazil: structure and functioning -- 7 Over-promising and under-delivering: the Canadian policy style of punctuated gradualism -- 8 Policy style(s) in Switzerland: under stress -- 9 The American policy style(s): multiple institutions creating gridlock and opportunities -- Part III "Closed" one-party authoritarian regimes -- 10 Policy styles in China: how to control and motivate bureaucracy -- 11 Policy-making styles in Central Asia: the Soviet legacy and new institutions -- 12 Vietnam: the policy styles of a Lame Leviathan -- 13 The national policymaking style of the United Arab Emirates: fusing patron-client networks into modernity -- Part IV "Open" electorally competitive authoritarian regimes -- 14 The riven policy style of a post-empire state: the case of Russia -- 15 Singapore's policy style: gradations of developmentalism -- 16 Policy-making in an electoral autocracy: constitutional reform in Togo -- 17 Napoleonic tradition, majoritarianism, and Turkey's statist policy style -- Conclusion -- 18 Empirical insights on national policy styles and political regimes -- Index