The Routledge Handbook of Policy Styles (Routledge International Handbooks)

This Handbookprovides a systematic overview of the study of policy styles provided by leading experts in the field. The book unites theoretical bases and advancements in practice, ranging from the fundamentals of policy styles to its place in greater policy studies, and responds to new questions regarding policy style dynamics across a range of government levels and activities, including contemporary trends affecting styles such as the use of digital tools and big data in government. It is a comprehensive reference for students and scholars of public policy. Key features: * consolidates and advances the contemporary body of knowledge on policy styles and defines its distinctiveness within broader policy studies; * provides a detailed picture of national policy styles in a wide range of countries as well as insights concerning sectoral and other kinds of styles within countries, including executive styles and styles of policy advice; * systematically explores questions dealing with how policy styles impact policy goals, and the realization of policies, including how styles affect instruments choices and impact; * provides a guide to future comparative research pathways and cross-sectoral dialogue on the concept and practice of policy styles. __The Routledge Handbook Policy Styles__ is essential reading and an authoritative reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners of public policy, public administration, public management as well as for comparative politics and government, public organizations and individual policy areas such as health policy, welfare policy, industrial policy, environmental policy, among others. Studying policy styles at the national level and beyond / Michael Howlett and Jale Tosun -- National policy styles in theory and practice / Michael Howlett and Jale Tosun -- Adversarial legalism and the American style of policymaking / Jeb Barnes -- Experimentalism as a policy style : the case of China / Jiwei Qian -- From the 'rationalist consensus' to 'exclusive incrementalism' : the 'new' German policy style / Reimut Zohlnhöfer and Jale Tosun -- Authoritarism as a policy style / Aziz Burkhanov -- The concept of a sectoral policy style / Paul Cairney -- Three worlds of social policy styles : lasting legacies or a thing of the past? / Alexander Horn and Jennifer Shore -- Policy styles in healthcare : understanding variations in health systems / Azad Singh Bali and Adam Hannah -- Operationalising and explaining environmental policy styles / Jale Tosun and Marc Debus -- Finance and monetary policy styles / Caner Bakir and M. Kerem Coban -- The concept of administrative styles / Louisa Bayerlein, Christoph Knill and Dionys Zink -- The styles of civil service systems / John Halligan -- Empirically assessing administrative styles as bureaucratic routines / Louisa Bayerlein, Christoph Knill, Yves Steinebach and Dionys Zink -- Convergence in administrative implementation styles in the European Union? / Mark Wiering and Tetty Havinga -- Governance styles : re-thinking governance and public policy / Michael Howlett, Giliberto Capano and M. Ramesh -- Media-driven agenda-setting styles / Max Grömping -- Interest groups and agenda setting styles / Darren R. Halpin and Bert Fraussen -- The politics of parliamentary agenda-setting styles / Shaun Bevan, Enrico Borghetto and Henrik Seeberg -- Policy formulation styles : policy design and non-design / Michael Howlett and Ishani Mukherjee -- Policy over- and underreaction as policy style / Moshe Maor -- Styles of policy advice : a typology for comparing the standard operating procedures for the provision of policy advice / David Aubin and Marleen Brans -- Executive policy styles / Christopher A. Cooper and Patrik Marier -- Leaders' and managers' decision-making styles / Maria Tullia Galanti -- Varieties of executive styles / Kai Wegrich -- Instruments and implementation styles / Michael Howlett, Anthony Perl and M. Ramesh -- Regulatory styles and their implications / Christian Adam and Steffen Hurka -- Implementation style dynamics : changing patterns of instrument choice over time? / Michael Howlett -- When policy learning meets policy styles / Claire A. Dunlop and Claudio M. Radaelli -- Participatory vs expert evaluation styles / Fritz Sager and Céline Mavrot -- Policy evaluation styles / Fabrizio De Francesco and Valérie Pattyn -- Institutional and process dimensions of policy styles : key insights / Michael Howlett and Jale Tosun Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of tables List of figures Notes on contributors 1 Introduction: studying policy styles at the national level and beyond Section 1 Institutional styles Part 1 National policy styles: concepts and cases 2 National policy styles in theory and practice 3 Adversarial legalism and the American style of policymaking 4 Experimentalism as a policy style: the case of China 5 From the ‘rationalist consensus’ to ‘exclusive incrementalism’: the ‘new’ German policy style 6 Authoritarian policy styles: post-Soviet Central Asia Part 2 Sectoral policy styles: concepts and cases 7 The concept of a sectoral policy style 8 Three worlds of social policy styles: lasting legacies or a thing of the past? 9 Policy styles in healthcare: understanding variations in health systems 10 Operationalising and explaining environmental policy styles 11 Finance and monetary policy styles Part 3 Administrative and governance styles 12 The concept of administrative styles 13 The styles of civil service systems 14 Empirically assessing administrative styles as bureaucratic routines 15 Convergence in administrative implementation styles in the European Union? 16 Governance styles: re-thinking governance and public policy Section 2 Process styles Part 4 Agenda-setting styles 17 Media-driven agenda-setting styles 18 Interest groups and agenda-setting styles 19 The politics of parliamentary agenda-setting styles Part 5 Formulation, advisory, and design styles 20 Policy formulation styles: policy design and non-design 21 Policy over- and underreaction as policy styles 22 Styles of policy advice: a typology for comparing the standard operating procedures for the provision of policy advice Part 6 Executive and leadership decision-making styles 23 Executive policy styles 24 Leaders’ and managers’ decision-making styles 25 Varieties of executive styles Part 7 Implementation styles 26 Instruments and implementation styles 27 Regulatory styles and their implications 28 Implementation style dynamics: changing patterns of instrument choice over time? Part 8 Evaluation styles 29 When policy learning meets policy styles 30 Participatory vs expert evaluation styles 31 Policy evaluation styles 32 Institutional and process dimensions of policy styles: key insights Index "This handbook provides a systematic overview of the study of policy styles provided by leading experts in the field. The book unites theoretical bases and advancements in practice, ranging from the fundamentals of policy styles to its place in greater policy studies and responds to new questions regarding policy style dynamics across a range of government levels and activities, including contemporary trends affecting styles such as the use of digital tools and big data in government. It is a comprehensive reference for students and scholars of public policy. Key features: consolidates and advances the contemporary body of knowledge on policy styles and defines its distinctiveness within broader policy studies; provides a detailed picture of national policy styles in a wide range of countries as well as insights concerning sectoral and other kinds of styles within countries, including executive styles and styles of policy advice; systematically explores questions dealing with how policy styles impact policy goals, and the realization of policies, including how styles affect instruments choices and impact; provides a guide to future comparative research pathways and cross-sectoral dialogue on the concept and practice of policy styles. The Routledge Handbook Policy Styles is essential reading and an authoritative reference for scholars, students, researchers and practitioners of Public Policy, Public Administration, Public Management as well as for Comparative Politics and Government, Public Organizations and individual policy areas such as Health Policy, Welfare Policy, Industrial Policy, Environmental Policy, among others"-- Provided by publisher We examine the classic four dimensions of policy style through a new perspective: policy learning. The approach of 'modes of policy learning' sheds light on the dynamic dimensions of anticipation, reaction, consensus and imposition that characterise policy styles in terms of problem solving and relationships among actors. What is the learning mode that matches each of the four dimensions of style, and what are these modes good for? We find that for each of these dimensions there is a particular type or mode of policy learning. By this we mean a mode of learning that seems particularly suited to that dimension. However, other modes of learning can also be empirically found to operate within the four dimensions with their own effects in terms of problem solving. Further, a mode may not be functional to a dimension but can still be empirically present because it empowers a certain constellation of actors. However, particular modes of learning are not chosen by actors writing on blank sheet. They are selected within particular conditions defining the institutional, political and administrative context This handbookprovides a systematic overview of the study of policy styles provided by leading experts in the field. It unites theoretical bases and advancements in practice, ranging from the fundamentals of policy styles to its place in greater policy studies.