Governance and Public Policy in the UK [Paperback]

This book analyzes the changing nature of public policy over the last thirty years, looking at the impact of governance and offering a theoretically and critically informed account of the changing nature of the state. The text will also draw on a wide range of interviews conducted with Conservative and Labour ministers, civil servants and pressure group representatives, providing solid primary empirical material with which to illuminate each of the chapters.

1. Introduction: Public Policy in a Changing World
2. Interpreting Governance
3. Interpreting the Modern State
4. From Modernity to Crisis
5. Internal challenges to the Modern State : The New Right
6. External challenges to the Modern State I: Globalization
7. External challenges to the Modern State II: Europeanization
8. Governance and Civil Society
9. Changing Relations between Ministers and Civil Servants
10. Governance and New Labour
11. Conclusion: Governance, Power and Public Policy