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Richardson et al.'s respected and seminal Policy Styles in Western Europe (1982) shed valuable light on how countries tend to establish long-term and distinctive ways to make policies that transcend short-term imperatives and issues. This follow-up volume updates those arguments and significantly expands the coverage, consisting of 16 carefully selected country-level case studies from around the world. Furthermore, it includes different types of political regimes and developmental levels to test more widely the robustness of the patterns and variables highlighted in the original book.

The case studies - covering countries from the United States, Canada, Germany and the UK to Russia, Togo and Vietnam - follow a uniform structure, combining theoretical considerations and the presentation of empirical material to reveal how the distinct cultural and institutional features of modern states continue to have implications for the making and implementation of public policy decisions within them.

The book is essential reading for students and scholars of public policy, public administration, comparative politics and development studies.



Table of Contents
Introduction

1. Policy Styles: A New Approach [Michael Howlett and Jale Tosun]

Part I: ´Closed´ Bureaucratic-Democratic Regimes

2. Policy Styles in the United Kingdom: A Majoritarian UK vs. Devolved Consensus Democracies? [Paul Cairney]

3. Policy Styles in Germany: Still Searching for the Rationalist Consensus? [Reimut Zohlnhöfer and Jale Tosun]

4. The Scholar-Official Policy Nexus and Confucian Policy Styles in South Korea [M. Jae Moon and Chang-ho Hwang]

5. Policy Styles in Mexico: Still Muddling Through Centralized Bureaucracy, Not Yet Through the Democratic Transition [Raul Pacheco-Vega]

Part II: ´Open´ Democratic-Popular Regimes

6. The Co-Evolutionary Policy Style of Brazil: Structure and Functioning [Eduardo José Grin and Fernando Luiz Abrucio]

7. Over-Promising and Under-Delivering: The Canadian Policy Style of Punctuated Gradualism [Michael Howlett and Andrea Migone]

8. Policy Style(s) in Switzerland: Under Stress [Yannis Papadopoulos and Martino Maggetti]

9. The American Policy Style(s): Multiple Institutions Creating Gridlock and Opportunities [B. Guy Peters]

Part III: ´Closed´ One-Party Authoritarian Regimes

10. Policy Styles in China: How to Control and Motivate Bureaucracy [Jiwei Qian]

11. Policy-Making Styles in Central Asia: The Soviet Legacy and New Institutions [Aziz Burkhanov]

12. Vietnam: The Policy Styles of a Lame Leviathan [Aurel Croissant]

13. The National Policy-Making Style of the United Arab Emirates: Fusing Patron-Client Networks into Modernity [Ahmed Mustafa Elhussein Mansour]

Part IV: ´Open´ Electorally Competitive Authoritarian Regimes

14. The Riven Policy Style of a Post-Empire State: The Case of Russia [Dmitry Zatsyev]

15. Singapore's Policy Style: Gradations of Developmentalism [Jun Jie Woo]

16. Policy-Making in an Electoral Autocracy: Constitutional Reform in Togo [Anja Osei and Hervé Akinocho]

17. Napoleonic Traditions, Majoritarianism, and Turkey's Statist Policy Style [H. Tolga Bolukbasi and Ebru Ertugal]

Conclusion

18. Empirical Insights on National Policy Styles and Political Regimes [Michael Howlett and Jale Tosun]