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"Administrative Styles and Policy Styles" published on by Oxford University Press.

First published in 1982, Policy Styles in Western Europe considers the growth of the modern state in the 1980s and examines the implications of this for the making and implementation of public policy decisions. It argues that the business of government was simply easier in the 1970s and that the growth of the modern state has meant an expansion of public policies, with the state widening in areas of societal activity. This book looks at the similarities and differences that exist among the countries of Western Europe. Whilst it is increasingly clear that most policy problems a

The article discusses central characteristics of the way in which western democracies formulate their public policy. This is done by presenting a preliminary typology of policy styles. An attempt is made to classify some European countries according to their dominant policy style as well as according to changes in this respect during the post‐industrial period. Overcrowding and unconventional participation are identified as two important factors behind this development. The essay, which is mainly based on British and Swedish data, concludes with a discussion of the question of whether societies are able to exercise any choice in determining their policy style.

First published in 1982, Policy Styles in Western Europe considers the growth of the modern state in the 1980s and examines the implications of this for the making and implementation of public policy decisions. It argues that the business of government was simply easier in the 1970s and that the growth of the modern state has meant an expansion of public policies, with the state widening in areas of societal activity. This book looks at the similarities and differences that exist among the countries of Western Europe. Whilst it is increasingly clear that most policy problems a.

Dieser Beitrag bietet einen Überblick über den Forschungsstand zum Politikstilkonzept und diskutiert dessen Potenzial für die Analyse der Wirkungen arbeitsmarktpolitischer Programme. Ausgangspunkt ist, dass die Heterogenität administrativer Organisationen stärker in den Blick genommen werden sollte - insbesondere, wenn solche Agenten/-innen des Wandels einem fundamentalen inneren Reformprozess unterliegen. Ihr Agieren sowie ihre Offenheit für Reformen kann so erschlossen und kategorisiert und Hypothesen zur ihrer Reform- und Lernfähigkeit generiert werden. Bisherige Politikstilanalysen fallen hingegen oftmals durch definitorische Beliebigkeit und mangelnde Operationalisierung auf. Ziel ist es deshalb, den Forschungsstand zu strukturieren und aufzuzeigen, wie das Konzept für eine auf Wirkungsfragen abzielende Evaluationsforschung fruchtbar gemacht werden kann. Da der Blick so u.a. auch auf komplexe Bereiche wie Informelles und die kulturelle Verankerung von (Organisations-)Politik gelegt wird, können selbst zunächst irrational wirkende Muster eines variablen Instrumenteneinsatzes systematisch erfasst werden. Insbesondere im Kontext von Analysen arbeitsmarktpolitischer Programme stellt dieses Konzept eine wichtige Ergänzung zu ökonomischen und soziologischen Ansätzen dar, wenn es um die Evaluation von Instrumentenwahl bzw. Instrumenteneinsatz und deren Wirkungen z.B. auf die individuellen Eingliederungschancen der Teilnehmenden geht. Eine Verbindung von Kontextwissen aus Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie mit ökonometrischer Analyseschärfe verspricht hier eine fruchtbare Symbiose.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Policy styles: a new approach -- Part I "Closed" bureaucratic-democratic regimes -- 2 Policy styles in the United Kingdom: a majoritarian UK vs. devolved consensus democracies? -- 3 Policy styles in Germany: still searching for the rationalist consensus? -- 4 The scholar-official policy nexus and Confucian policy styles in South Korea -- 5 Policy styles in Mexico: still muddling through centralized bureaucracy, not yet through the democratic transition -- Part II "Open" democratic-popular regimes -- 6 The co-evolutionary policy style of Brazil: structure and functioning -- 7 Over-promising and under-delivering: the Canadian policy style of punctuated gradualism -- 8 Policy style(s) in Switzerland: under stress -- 9 The American policy style(s): multiple institutions creating gridlock and opportunities -- Part III "Closed" one-party authoritarian regimes -- 10 Policy styles in China: how to control and motivate bureaucracy -- 11 Policy-making styles in Central Asia: the Soviet legacy and new institutions -- 12 Vietnam: the policy styles of a Lame Leviathan -- 13 The national policymaking style of the United Arab Emirates: fusing patron-client networks into modernity -- Part IV "Open" electorally competitive authoritarian regimes -- 14 The riven policy style of a post-empire state: the case of Russia -- 15 Singapore's policy style: gradations of developmentalism -- 16 Policy-making in an electoral autocracy: constitutional reform in Togo -- 17 Napoleonic tradition, majoritarianism, and Turkey's statist policy style -- Conclusion -- 18 Empirical insights on national policy styles and political regimes -- Index

ABSTRACTIt seems possible to formulate broad characterizations of the British and European policy processes in terms of the relationship between government and interest groups. There is a preferred type of machinery in Britain, reflecting normative values, which is to avoid electoral politics and public conflict in order to reach consensus or "accommodation" in the labyrinth of consultative machinery. This style is aptly labelled "bureaucratic accommodation" and is a system in which the dominant actors are groups and government departments. Departments readily recognize the "relevant" groups in a given policy area and seek to mobilize the community around agreed policies. The predilection for the avoidance of conflict seems equally apparent in other Western European nations.