What are the key trends and challenges facing contemporary executive politics? How do systems of executive politics respond to different types of crisis? How can we define the contemporary setting of executive politics? .Executive Politics in Times of Crisis. explores these questions. It brings together leading international scholars and showcases key conceptual and substantive arguments, thereby contributing to our understanding of key debates involving the 'executive factor' in political life. The contributors to the volume consider key concepts and developments which challenge existing stereotypes about the way in which the executive and the execution of policies operate. This includes debates about politicization, internationalization, managerialism, policy instruments and blame with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe and the lesser developed world. The contributors consider how executive politics has responded to and is challenged by contemporary crises, setting the international agenda forthe study of executive politics. INDICE: Introduction: Executive Politics in Times of Crises; .M.Lodge. & .K.Wegrich.PARTI: DOCTRINES AND CONTEMPORARY TRENDS.The Internationalization ofNational Bureaucracy; .K.Yesilkagit.Politicization and Executive Politics; .D.E.Lewis.The Macro-Politics of Managerialism: Revisiting Weberian Perspectives; .P.Bezes.International Development Through the Lens of Executive Politics; .N.Gulrajani.Towards NPM-ization of the Post- Communist State? Attitudes of Public Officials Towards Models of Bureaucracy in Central and Eastern Europe; .J-H Meyer-Sahling., .W.Lowe. & .C.van Stolk.Executive Politics and Policy Instruments;. M.Lodge. & .K.Wegrich.Executive Politics and the Governance of Public Finance; .P.Krause.Attention and Reputation: Linking Regulators' Internal and External Worlds; .S.Gilad.PART II:CRISES AND EXECUTIVE POLITICS.Aligning Executive Action in Times of Austerity: The Politics of Crisis Co-ordination; .A.Boin. & .P.'t Hart.The Executive at Work During Times of Crisis; .S.Parrado.Governance, Governing, and the Capacity of Executives in Times of Crisis; .F.Matthews.Executive Politics, Risk and the Mega-Project Paradox; .W.Jennings.Sectoral Dynamics In Executive Politics: Co-ordinating Climate Policy in Germany; .J.Fleischer. & .T.Hustedt.Conclusion .Executive Politics in a Changing Climate; .M.Lodge. & .K.Wegrich.
- ISBN: 978-0-230-30486-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 312
- Fecha Publicación: 11/05/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido