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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

In recent years, International Organizations have undergone substantive reforms in terms of their administrative structures and management. This development has so far not been subject to systematic or comparative investigations. With Management Reforms in International Organizations Michael W. Bauer and Christoph Knill present a first attempt to open this black box. How can we explain the speed, acceptance and scope of management reforms in International Organizations? How important are Secretary Generals and member states? Do International Organizations, often considered as crucial diffusion agents for public management reforms, actually live up to the standards they are promoting? Do management reforms have unintended consequences with regard to the policy output? The book delivers a comprehensive analysis of management reforms in a broad range of different International Organizations. Leading scholars in the field analyze the respective reform processes inter alia in the European Commission, the Nordic Council of Ministers, the World Bank, the OECD, the European Central Bank, the European Parliament and the United Nations

Community legislation is unquestionably a factor to be reckoned with in member-state policy making. But the extent and mode of its impact on domestic policies and administrative structures will depend on the existing policy practices and the political and institutional structures of the country in question. In cases where there is a mismatch between an established policy of a member state and a clearly specified European policy mandate, there will be an expectation to adjust, which in turn constitutes a precondition for change. Assuming the existence of a need for change, the ability to adapt will depend on the policy preferences of key actors, and the capacity of institutions to implement reform, realize policy change, and administratively adjust to European requirements. The policy preferences of key actors are influenced by the distributional consequences of the policies to be adopted (Milner 1996); the capacity to change depends on the degree of integrated political leadership, caused by a lack of formal veto points (Tsebelis 1995), or a decisional tradition capable of surmounting formal and factual veto points by way of consensual tripartite decision making. Where there is a divergence of mismatch between European and national policies, and the policy preferences of political leaders are defined by a willingness to adapt, the absence of formal veto points and a cooperative decisional tradition will enhance the capacity to change and to adjust administrative structures in compliance with European policy mandates...

Part 1. Analytical Concepts and Paradigms in Environmental Policy Analysis -- Part 2. Determinants of Environmental Policy Performance -- Part 3. Environmental Policy Change -- Part 4. Transformation of Environmental Policies: Paradigmatic Challenges.

International public administrations (IPAs) have become an essential feature of global governance, contributing to what some have described as the 'bureaucratization of world politics'. While we do know that IPAs matter for international politics, we neither know exactly to what extent nor how exactly they matter for international organizations' policy making processes and subsequent outputs. This book provides an innovative perspective on IPAs and their agency in introducing the concept of administrative styles to the study of international organizations and global public policy. It argues that the administrative bodies of international organizations can develop informal working routines that allow them to exert influence beyond their formal autonomy and mandate. The theoretical argument is tested by an encompassing comparative assessment of administrative styles and their determinants across eight IPAs providing rich empirical insight gathered in more than 100 expert interviews.

International public administrations (IPAs) have become an essential feature of global governance, contributing to what some have described as the 'bureaucratization of world politics'. While we do know that IPAs matter for international politics, we neither know exactly to what extent nor how exactly they matter for international organizations' policy making processes and subsequent outputs. This book provides an innovative perspective on IPAs and their agency in introducing the concept of administrative styles to the study of international organizations and global public policy. It argues that the administrative bodies of international organizations can develop informal working routines that allow them to exert influence beyond their formal autonomy and mandate. The theoretical argument is tested by an encompassing comparative assessment of administrative styles and their determinants across eight IPAs providing rich empirical insight gathered in more than 100 expert interviews.