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Cover Teaching Federalism
Teaching Federalism
Multidimensional Approaches
Edited by
John Kincaid
and
J. Leckrone

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Teaching Federalism presents innovative ideas for teaching a wide variety of key concepts of federalism and federal-country cases. Each chapter introduces a topic, explains its place in federalism research, and provides learning objectives, pedagogical tools, and questions for class discussions, student essays, and examinations. Evaluation and reading suggestions are included as well.

Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
03 Jan 2023
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800885325
Collection:
Political Science and Public Policy 2023
Cover Engaging Citizens in Policy Making
Engaging Citizens in Policy Making
e-Participation Practices in Europe
This is an open access title available under the terms of a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Exploring academic and policy thinking on e-participation, this book opens up the organizational and institutional 'black box' and provides new insights into how public administrations in 15 European states have facilitated its implementation.
Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
15 Feb 2022
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800374362
Collection:
Political Science and Public Policy 2022
Cover The Governance of Labour Administration
The Governance of Labour Administration
Reforms, Innovations and Challenges
Edited by
Jason Heyes
and
Ludek Rychly
Focusing on public administration activities in the field of national labour policy, this timely book provides detailed analyses of labour administration reforms, innovations and challenges in different countries, including detailed case studies from Brazil, Germany, India, Japan, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the US.
Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
23 Nov 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802203158
Collection:
Economics 2021
Cover Policy Change and Innovation in Multilevel Governance
Policy Change and Innovation in Multilevel Governance
Multilevel governance divides powers, includes many veto players and requires extensive policy coordination among different jurisdictions. Under these conditions, innovative policies or institutional reforms seem difficult to achieve. However, while multilevel systems establish obstructive barriers to change, they also provide spaces for creative and experimental policies, incentives for learning, and ways to circumvent resistance against change. As the book explains, appropriate patterns of multilevel governance linking diverse policy arenas to a loosely coupled structure are conducive to policy innovation.
Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
19 Nov 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788119177
Collection:
Political Science and Public Policy 2021
Cover Collaboration in Public Service Delivery
Collaboration in Public Service Delivery
Promise and Pitfalls
Edited by
Anka Kekez
,
Michael Howlett
, and
M Ramesh
The growing intensity and complexity of public service has spurred policy reform efforts across the globe, many featuring attempts to promote more collaborative government. Collaboration in Public Service Delivery sheds light on these efforts, analysing and reconceptualising the major types of collaboration in public service delivery through a governance lens.
Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
27 Sep 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788978583
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Public Management as a Design-Oriented Professional Discipline
Public Management as a Design-Oriented Professional Discipline
While public management has become widely spoken of, its identity and character is not well-defined. Such disparity is an underlying problem in developing public management within academia, and in the eyes of practitioners. In this book, Michael Barzelay tackles the challenge of making public management into a true professional discipline. Barzelay argues that public management needs to integrate contrasting conceptions of professional practice. By pressing forward an expansive idea of design in public management, Barzelay formulates a fresh vision of public management in practice and outlines its implications for research, curriculum development and disciplinary identity.
Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
27 Sep 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788119108
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Making Policies Work
Making Policies Work
First- and Second-order Mechanisms in Policy Design
Policy design efforts are hampered by inadequate understanding of how policy tools and actions promote effective policies. The objective of this book is to address this gap in understanding by proposing a causal theory of the linkages between policy actions and policy effects. Adopting a mechanistic perspective, the book identifies the causal processes that activate effects and help achieve goals. It thus offers a powerful analytical tool to both scholars and practitioners of public policy seeking to design effective policies.
Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
23 Mar 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788118194
Collection:
Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Europe's Disappearing Middle Class?
Europe's Disappearing Middle Class?
Evidence from the World of Work

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. While recent studies have highlighted the phenomenon and risks of increased inequalities between the top and the bottom of society, little research has so far been carried out on trends relating to the median income range that generally represents the middle class. This volume examines the following questions: what are the main transformations in the world of work over the last 20 years in terms of the labour market, social dialogue, and conditions of work, wages and incomes that may have affected the middle class? How has the middle class been altered by the financial and economic crisis? What are the long-term trends for the middle class in Europe?

Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
28 Oct 2016
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786430601
Cover The Tools of Policy Formulation
The Tools of Policy Formulation
Actors, Capacities, Venues and Effects
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the Elgaronline platform - www.elgaronline.com/view/9781783477036.xml Policy analysts are accustomed to thinking in terms of tools and instruments. Yet an authoritative examination of the tools which have been developed to formulate new policies is missing. This book is the first of its kind to distinguish the defining characteristics of the main policy formulation tools, and offer a fresh way of understanding how, why and by whom they are selected, as well as the effects they produce in practice.
Open access
Monograph Book
Published:
24 Apr 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783477043
Collection:
Social And Political Science 2015