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A fresh analysis of policy convergences across nations, which identifies their key driving forces.To what extent and in which direction can we empirically observe a convergence of national policies? In which areas and for which patterns of policy is convergence more or less pronounced? This text addresses these central questions with clarity and rigour.With growing economic and institutional interlinkages between nation states, it is often assumed that there is an overall trend towards increasingly similar policies across countries. Comparative research on the domestic impact of globalization

Introduction : international public administrations in global public policy / Christoph Knill and Yves Steinebach -- No actorness without autonomy : researching IPAs' role in transnational policy-making / Michael W. Bauer and Jörn Ege -- Conditions of influence : policy effects of IPA autonomy in comparative perspective / Michael W. Bauer, Jörn Ege, and Nora Wagner -- Reputation and influence : a comparative assessment of stakeholder attitudes toward IPAs / Andrea Liese and Mirko Heinzel -- Towards digital authority of international public administrations in global climate and disability policymaking / Alexandra Goritz, Helge Jörgens, Nina Kolleck, and Johannes Schuster -- How administrative styles matter : international public administrations as agents in global public policy / Christoph Knill, Yves Steinebach, and Louisa Bayerlein -- Bureaucratic agency and policy performance in international organizations / Yves Steinebach, Christoph Knill, Constantin Kaplaner, and Louisa Bayerlein -- How administrative styles impact on organizational change and reforms of international public administrations / Stephan Grohs and Daniel Rasch -- Money and time : budgeting and resourcing in international public administrations / Klaus H. Goetz, Ronny Patz, and Svanhildur Thorvaldsdottir -- The politics of evaluation in international organizations / Steffen Eckhard and Vytautas Jankauskas -- Behind the scenes : how international treaty secretariats use social networks to exert influence in the global climate policy regime / Nina Kolleck, Helge Jörgens, Mareike Well, Barbara Saerbeck, Alexandra Goritz, and Johannes Schuster -- Only words? : coordination and power in multilevel administration beyond the state / Arthur Benz -- How and how much do international public administrations matter? : patterns and sources of their influence in global public policy / Christoph Knill and Yves Steinebach.

"This book examines the rise and agency of International Organizations (IOs) and their bureaucratic bodies - the International Public Administrations (IPAs) - as a reflection of an ongoing transfer of political authority and power from the domestic to the international level. It shows that IPAs represent actors per se, with autonomy and resources that allow them to exert an independent influence on global policy-making processes and outputs. Providing a combination of novel conceptual lenses and research design to capture IPAs as an empirical phenomenon, the book takes an open, theoretically and methodologically diverse approach to show that IPAs are far from being negligible actors in global public policy and must be taken seriously as actors in policy-making beyond the nation state. This book will be of key interest to students, scholars and practitioners in Public Policy and Public Administration, International Relations, International Political Economy, as well as Organizational Studies"--

Intro -- List of Boxes -- Foreword to the Second Edition -- 1: Introduction -- WHAT IS A PUBLIC POLICY? -- Polity, Politics and Policy -- Elements of a Public Policy -- Differences in Scope: Sectors, Targets and Instruments -- ANALYTICAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE POLICY-MAKING PROCESS -- Basic Theoretical Perspectives on Public Policies: Rational Process Design, Muddling Through or Just Chance? -- Stages of the Policy Process -- OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES FOR POLICY-MAKING -- STUDYING PUBLIC POLICY: THE APPROACH AND STRUCTURE OF THIS BOOK -- Basic Analytical Tools, Concepts and Theories -- Stages of the Policy Process -- Cross-Cutting Themes -- 2: The Nature of Public Policies -- INTRODUCTION -- TYPOLOGIES OF PUBLIC POLICIES -- Classification by Implications for Politics -- Lowi's Policy Typology -- Wilson's Policy Typology -- Classification by Governance Principles and Instruments -- Nodality -- Authority -- Treasure -- Organization -- Alternative Schemes -- POLICY DIMENSIONS -- Policy Dimensions in the Sequence of the Policy Cycle -- Policy Content Dimensions -- POLICY STYLES -- CONCLUSIONS -- Further reading -- 3: The Context for Policy-Making: Central Institutions and Actors -- INTRODUCTION -- NATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: DEFINING THE RULES OF THE POLITICAL GAME -- Constitutions and Constitutional Courts -- Division of Powers -- Electoral Institutions and Party Systems -- INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS: GLOBAL PUBLIC POLICY -- The United Nations System -- The World Trade Organization -- KEY ACTORS -- Public Actors -- The Executive -- The Legislature -- The Judiciary -- The Bureaucracy -- Political Parties -- Private Actors -- Interest Groups -- Experts -- CONCLUSIONS -- Further reading -- 4: Theoretical Approaches to Policy-Making -- INTRODUCTION -- STRUCTURE-BASED MODELS -- The Cleavage Approach -- Varieties of Capitalism -- INSTITUTION-BASED MODELS.

Wie Politik gemacht wird: Inhalte, Entstehung, Implementierung und Bewertung von Politiken sind das zentrale Thema der Policy-Forschung (auch als Politikfeld-Analyse bezeichnet). Wie kommt ein Thema auf die politische Agenda? Wie können Akteure und Institutionen Politikergebnisse beeinflussen? Wann ist Politik erfolgversprechend? Wie analysiert man Prozesse der Politikgestaltung? Dieser Band erläutert und hinterfragt grundlegende Theorien und Forschungsmethoden. Besonderes Augenmerk liegt dabei auf den internationalen Einflussgrößen, deren Bedeutung ständig wächst. Das Lehrbuch ist für alle Studiengänge im Bereich Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft geeignet. Für alle, die verstehen wollen, wie Politikgestaltung konkret funktioniert: Das Wichtigste aus Theorie und Forschung übersichtlich zusammengefasst.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the development, making and implementation of European Union environmental politics and identifies the central areas and instruments of EU environmental policy. It analyses the factors influencing not only the formulation but also the implementation of environmental measures in the complex multi-level setting of the EU. On this basis, it takes a critical look at the EU?s effectiveness and problem-solving capacity in the environmental field. Designed as a textbook at undergraduate and graduate level, the book employs a clear and insightful anal

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The societal and policy transformations associated with the coronavirus disease pandemic are currently subject of intense academic debate. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by adopting a systemic perspective on policy change, shedding light on the hidden and indirect crisis effects. Based on a comprehensive analysis of policy agenda developments in Germany, we find that the pandemic led to profound shifts in political attention across policy areas. We demonstrate that these agenda gains and losses per policy area vary by the extent to which the respective areas can be presented as relevant in managing the coronavirus disease crisis and its repercussions. Moreover, relying on the analysis of past four economic crises, we also find that there is limited potential for catching up dynamics after the crisis is over. Policy areas that lost agenda share during crisis are unlikely to make up for these losses by strong attention gains once the crisis is over. Crises have hence substantial, long-term and so far, neglected effects on policymaking in modern democracies.

AbstractWhile there is broad scholarly agreement on the pattern of ever‐growing policy stocks in modern democracies, research on the drivers of policy accumulation is still in its infancy. This holds in particular for the role of crises and external shocks. While the relationship between crisis events and the change of individual policies is fairly uncontested, we lack systematic knowledge on the extent to which crises trigger policy accumulation. To address this research gap, we analyze if and to what extent crises drive the accumulation of sectoral policies over time. Focusing on the development of German asylum policy, we show that crises constitute major "regulatory ratchets". While the policy stock remained rather constant in noncrisis times, crisis events led to the addition of multiple new policy elements, moving policy accumulation toward a new "plateau". Crises hence not only increase the likelihood of substantial policy change but also for policy accumulation.