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Comparative Public Policy and Citizen Participation: Energy, Education, Health, and Urban Issues in the U.S. and Germany focuses on the processes involved in policy formulation and the functions of citizens in such activity. Concerns include education, energy and environmental policies, decision making, and delivery of human services. The selection first analyzes the policy-making procedures in the United States, including participation of the poor in poverty programs, welfare reform, energy legislation, and federal aid to elementary and secondary education. The book then discusses the partici

Comparative Public Policy and Citizen Participation: Energy, Education, Health, and Urban Issues in the U.S. and Germany focuses on the processes involved in policy formulation and the functions of citizens in such activity. Concerns include education, energy and environmental policies, decision making, and delivery of human services. The selection first analyzes the policy-making procedures in the United States, including participation of the poor in poverty programs, welfare reform, energy legislation, and federal aid to elementary and secondary education. The book then discusses the partici.

Recruitment policies, administration, personnel management. Traditional civil service system, insulated from political change.

Im Mittelpunkt des Beitrags steht die Frage, "warum die industriepolitischen Eingriffe in den USA so zufälliger Natur sind und in welcher Weise diese ad hoc-Politik die Konkurrenzfähigkeit der amerikanischen Wirtschaft bedroht". Ausnahmen sind die Landwirtschaft, der Rüstungssektor und andere verteidigungsnahe Sektoren, in denen die staatliche Intervention mehr Kohärenz aufweist. Zwar gibt es vereinzelt Vorschläge für eine stärkere Koordinierung und Zentralisierung der Industriepolitik als Bestandteil einer nationalen Strategie zur Bewältigung der aktuellen strukturellen Krise, jedoch haben derartige Vorstellungen keine Durchsetzungschancen. (AuD-Br)