Paradigms in public policy theory and practice of paradigm shifts in the EU /

Policy action is driven, shaped and regulated by the ways in which cognitive frames and interests shape and define issues and analyses - and the involvement of particular authorities, experts, problem-definitions and solutions. To understand these processes is particularly important in the realm of...

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Burns, Tom R., Calvo, Dolores, Carson, Marcus
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • PART 1. Introduction
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Yves Surel : The Role of Cognitive and Normative Frames in Policymaking
  • PART 2. Selected Classsic Studies of Public Policy Paradigm Shifts
  • 3. Paradigms and Political Discourse : Protective Legislation in France and the United States before 1914 / Jane Jenson
  • 4. Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State. The Case of Economic Policymaking in Britain / Peter A. Hall
  • 5. Paradigm Shifts and Policy Networks : Cumulative Change in Agriculture / William D. Coleman, Grace D. Skogstad and Michael M. Atkinson
  • PART 3. EU Policy Paradigms, Thier Applications and Shifts
  • 6. EU Institutions and Policymaking : a Brief Overview
  • 7. Theoretical Framework and Methods for Conducting the EU Research on Paradigms and Paradigm Transformations
  • 8. Mad Cows, Pollutted Poultry and the Transfromation of EU Food Policy / Marcus Carson
  • 9. From Freely Traded to Product-non -grata : Banning Asbestos in the European Union / Marcus Carson
  • 10. The 'REACH' Saga : a revolution in Regulating Chemicals / Tom R. Burns, Dolores Calvo, Marcus Carson
  • 11. Emergence of an EU Energy Policy Paradigm / Svein S. Andersen
  • 12. Irony of the EU Climate Policy : a Crooked Path to a Paradigm Shift/ Tom R. Burns
  • 13. Toward a New Social Order? Mainstreaming Gender Equality in EU policymaking / Dolores Clvo, Tom R. Burns and Marcus Carson
  • 14. Paradigm Shift and Regime Change : Case Comparisons and Analysis
  • Part 4. 15. Elaborating Public Policy Paradigm Theory
  • 16. Conclusions.