Dismantling Public Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dismantling Public Policy write by Michael W. Bauer. This book was released on 2012-12-13. Dismantling Public Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Policy dismantling is a distinctive form of policy change, which involves the cutting, reduction, diminution or complete removal of existing policies. The perceived need to dismantle existing policies normally acquires particular poignancy during periods of acute economic austerity. Dismantling is thought to be especially productive of political conflict, pitting those who benefit from the status quo against those who, for whatever reason, seek change. However, scholars of public policy have been rather slow to offer a comprehensive account of the precise conditions under which particular aspects of policy are dismantled, grounded in systematic empirical analysis. Although our overall understanding of what causes policy to change has accelerated a lot in recent decades, there remains a bias towards the study of either policy expansion or policy stability. Dismantling does not even merit a mention in most public policy textbooks. Yet without an account of both expansion and dismantling, our understanding of policy change in general, and the politics surrounding the cutting of existing policies, will remain frustratingly incomplete. This book seeks to develop a more comparative approach to understanding policy dismantling, by looking in greater detail at the dynamics of cutting in two different policy fields: one (social policy) which has been subjected to study before and the other (environmental policy) which has not. On the basis of a systematic analysis of the existing literatures in these two fields, it develops a new analytical framework for measuring and explaining policy dismantling. Through an analysis of six, fresh empirical cases of dismantling written by leading experts, it reveals a more nuanced picture of change, focusing on what actually motivates actors to dismantle, the strategies they use to secure their objectives and the politically significant effects they ultimately generate. Dismantling Public Policy is essential reading for anyone wanting to better understand a hugely important facet of contemporary policy and politics. It will inform a range of student courses in comparative public policy, politics, social and environmental policy.
Dismantling Public Policy
Dismantling Public Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dismantling Public Policy write by Michael W. Bauer. This book was released on 2012-12-13. Dismantling Public Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dismantling does not even merit a mention in most public policy textbooks.
Dismantling the Welfare State?
Dismantling the Welfare State? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dismantling the Welfare State? write by Paul Pierson. This book was released on 1995-09-29. Dismantling the Welfare State? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a careful examination of the politics of social policy in an era of austerity and conservative governance. Focusing on the administrations of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, Pierson provides a compelling explanation for the welfare state's durability and for the few occasions where each government was able to achieve significant cutbacks. The programmes of the modern welfare state - the 'policy legacies' of previous governments - generally proved resistant to reform. Hemmed in by the political supports that have developed around mature social programmes, conservative opponents of the welfare state were successful only when they were able to divide the supporters of social programmes, compensate those negatively affected, or hide what they were doing from potential critics. The book will appeal to those interested in the politics of neo-conservatism as well as those concerned about the development of the modern welfare state. It will attract readers in the fields of comparative politics, public policy, and political economy.
Dismantling Solidarity
Dismantling Solidarity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dismantling Solidarity write by Michael A. McCarthy. This book was released on 2017-02-01. Dismantling Solidarity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why has old-age security become less solidaristic and increasingly tied to risky capitalist markets? Drawing on rich archival data that covers more than fifty years of American history, Michael A. McCarthy argues that the critical driver was policymakers' reactions to capitalist crises and their political imperative to promote capitalist growth.Pension development has followed three paths of marketization in America since the New Deal, each distinct but converging: occupational pension plans were adopted as an alternative to real increases in Social Security benefits after World War II, private pension assets were then financialized and invested into the stock market, and, since the 1970s, traditional pension plans have come to be replaced with riskier 401(k) retirement plans. Comparing each episode of change, Dismantling Solidarity mounts a forceful challenge to common understandings of America’s private pension system and offers an alternative political economy of the welfare state. McCarthy weaves together a theoretical framework that helps to explain pension marketization with structural mechanisms that push policymakers to intervene to promote capitalist growth and avoid capitalist crises and contingent historical factors that both drive them to intervene in the particular ways they do and shape how their interventions bear on welfare change. By emphasizing the capitalist context in which policymaking occurs, McCarthy turns our attention to the structural factors that drive policy change. Dismantling Solidarity is both theoretically and historically detailed and superbly argued, urging the reader to reconsider how capitalism itself constrains policymaking. It will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists, historians, and those curious about the relationship between capitalism and democracy.
Dismantling America
Dismantling America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dismantling America write by Thomas Sowell. This book was released on 2010-08-10. Dismantling America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sowell delivers a broad-based and withering critique of America's current trajectory, in this collection of essays.
