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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

The levying of charges for the use of public services or the carrying out of official duties is a fundamental feature of being state action. Parking fees in many ways, the everyday interactions between the state and its citizens. Make money publicly-legal work, which is the occasion individually attributable, public services imposed on the debtor side and fees are intended to cover, building on this achievement all or part of their costs. Fees are to some extent a matter of course in the political and social everyday life; neither justified nor its design, apart from rare cases of strong politicization, subject of major policy debates. Adapted from the source document.

A major new introduction to the theories and methods of public policy analysis and the changing nature of the policy process. Comprehensive, up-to-date and truly international in scope, it provides accessible yet sophisticated coverage of the field taking full account of global and multilevel dimensions

"Moralpolitiken sind Politiken, deren Ausgestaltung eng mit Entscheidungen über gesellschaftliche Werte verknüpft ist. Wie ist es in solchen Konstellationen um die politische Steuerungsfähigkeit des deutschen Regierungssystems bestellt?" (Autorenreferat)