Product Description: Policy Networks in Criminal Justice is a comprehensive and challenging collection of studies on the workings of pressure groups in criminal justice and the articulation of pressure group politics and criminal justice policymaking...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Interweaving recent institutional changes in central, local and European Union government, this study emphasizes the inability of the "Westminster model" to account for persistent policy failure. It also looks at the need to respod to the postmodern challenge, rethinking theoretical assumptions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work aims to offer a critical examination of the literature on "policy networks" and on "policy communities" and to show a model for understanding the relationship between industry and government. It then uses the model to demonstrate "issue network" and "producer network" effectiveness...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)