Policy Analysis in Germany / / ed. by Sonja Blum, Klaus Schubert.

This comprehensive study, part of the International Library of Policy Analysis, brings together for the first time a systemic overview of policy analysis activities in Germany. Written by leading experts in the field – including informed practitioners – it outlines the development of the discipline,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:International Library of Policy Analysis
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 13 Black and White
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Notes on contributors
  • Policy analysis in Germany: past, present and future of the discipline
  • Historical forerunners of policy analysis in Germany
  • The development of policy analysis in Germany: practical problems and theoretical concepts
  • Professionalisation of policy analysis in Germany: on the way or faraway?
  • Methods and study types in German policy analysis
  • Policy analysis in the German-speaking countries: common traditions, different cultures, in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
  • Federal government: permanent in-house capacities – life within the ‘apparatus’
  • Statist policy advice: policy analysis in the German Länder
  • Local policy processes: economisation, professionalisation, democratisation
  • Federal government in Germany: temporary, issue-related policy advice
  • Parliamentary in-house research services and policy-making in Germany – Sancho Panza or David’s sling?
  • The German Bundestag and external expertise: policy orientation as counterweight to deparliamentarisation?
  • From hand to mouth: parties and policy-making in Germany
  • Policy analysis by trade unions and business associations in Germany
  • Public interest groups and policy analysis: a push for evidence-based policy-making?
  • Think tanks: bridging beltway and ivory tower?
  • Non-university research institutes: between basic research, knowledge transfer to the public and policy analysis
  • The role of policy analysis in teaching political science at German universities
  • Academics and policy analysis: tension between epistemic and practical concerns
  • Index