European Union: power and policy-making
In: European public policy
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In: European public policy
In: Revue française de science politique, Band 46, Heft 3, S. 409-430
ISSN: 0035-2950
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In: Politics, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 14-20
ISSN: 1467-9256
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of representative politics, Band 45, Heft 1, S. 92
ISSN: 0031-2290
In: Documentación administrativa, Heft 224-225
ISSN: 1989-8983
In: Public administration: an international journal, Band 70, Heft 2, S. 157-175
ISSN: 1467-9299
The privatization of the water industry was one of the most controversial and turbulent privatizations of the 1980s. The government undertook the project somewhat reluctantly, then the first plans had to be withdrawn, but eventually, the privatization of the industry was successfully completed in 1989. In this article, we first set out to provide a thorough account of the process of privatizing water, based on primary sources and exhaustive interviews. In doing so, we identity some major problems of established theories of British policy making: the process of water privatization clearly does not conform to any single model of policy making. Instead, individual 'episodes' of the policy process conform to different models. Arguing that existing theories of British policy making may have focused too narrowly on routine decision‐making processes, we propose that a theory of the transformation of policy communities is required to understand the dynamics of radical policy change in Britain.
In: Public administration: an international quarterly, Band 70, Heft 2, S. 157
ISSN: 0033-3298