Product Description: Douglas E. Ashford joins a growing number of scholars who have questioned the behavioralist assumptions of much policy science. The essays in this volume show why policy analysis cannot be confined to prevailing methods of social science...read more

Product Description: Analyzes six areas of domestic policy-making in France: administrative reform, local and regional reform, economic policy, industrial relations, social security, and immigration. This book contains selected readings translated from official government documents and the writings of critics of official policy for each case...read more

Product Description: This volume in the series "Policy and Politics in Industrial States" examines British effectiveness in planning and implementing government programs. In the British system, parliamentary supremacy rests on the widely accepted elite consensus that took shape a century or more before the British democracy took over the broad responsibilities associated with the modern welfare state...read more