The Social Psychology of Organizations.

Managing Horizontal Government: The Politics of Co-Ordination

Beyond Good and Evil in Policy Implementation: Instrument Mixes, Implementation Styles, and Second Generation Theories of Policy Instrument Choice

Policy design is an area of study in the field of public policy with a curious intellectual history. It engendered a large literature in the 1980s and 1990s oriented to understanding design as both...

Tales From the Crypt: The Rise and Fall (and Rebirth?) of Policy Design

From government to governance in forest planning? Lessons from the case of the British Columbia Great Bear Rainforest initiative

In this chapter we focus on the management and the restructuring of networks, two themes that have recently attracted interest within the fields of public administration and policy analysis. Network approaches are in part a response to models in which policy making is seen as a more or less rational and sequential process from problem definition through policy intervention to evaluation and feedback. In network approaches, policy is seen as the result of interaction among corporate actors (Marin and Mayntz, 1991). These actors depend on each other for the realization of their aims and for this reason maintain ongoing relations with each other. This mutual dependency is often long-lived, leading to networks of relations that can be viewed as institutions. The policy networks evolve structures consisting of sets of values, norms, and rules. From a network perspective, institutional design can be viewed as efforts to alter these structures to achieve more desired outcomes

Johan A. de Bruijn

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Policy Networks and Governance