Understanding Governance asks:* What has changed in British government over the past
two decades, how and why?* Why do so many government policies fail?* What does the …

The fully revised and updated new edition of this textbook continues to provide the most
accessible overview of the main approaches in the study of public policy. It seeks to review …

Recruitment to legislative office is one of the core functions of political systems, yet we know
little about how the process varies from one country to another. Passages to Power provides …

This article has two aims. First, we develop a dialectical model of the role that policy
networks play in any explanation of policy outcomes. Our model is based upon a critique of …

Much of the British and European literature on the role of interest groups in the policy
process focuses on their participation in policy networks of various types. Possibly reflecting …

There has long been a disparity between the practice and the neo‐Diceyan doctrine of
accountability in British central government. This article shows that the New Public …

In the 1980s and 1990s the governance witnessed a shift from the Weberian model of
bureaucracy to the 'new managerialism'—a term used to describe the group of ideas …

Many recent studies show that firms profit from connections to influential politicians, but less
is known about how much politicians financially benefit from wielding political influence. We …

The Norwegian political scientist Stein Rokkan, writing about his country's system, said 'the
crucial decisions on economic policy are rarely taken in the parties or in Parliament'. He …

One of the main attributes of the nation state is the ability to make'authoritative allocations'
for society. Much of the criticism of the European Community (EC) during the Maastricht …