Policy Making in Multilevel Systems - Federalism, Decentralisation, and Performance in the OECD Countries (Paperback, New)

Does the territorial state organisation matter for effective policy making, and if so, in what way? So far, we know relatively little about its effects on policy making and policy outputs. Starting from the hypothesis that decentralised policy making has positive effects whereas federalism has a slightly negative impact on policy performance, this book systematically tests the independent and interdependent effects of different combinations of federal/unitary and decentralised/centralised structures of decision making and implementation. Based on a mixed methods design it first quantitatively tests the relationships for the OECD countries in cross-sectional as well as panel designs. In a second step, qualitative case studies are conducted for four countries: federal-centralised Austria, federal-decentralised Switzerland, unitary-decentralised Denmark, and unitary-centralised Ireland. The authors study two space-related policy areas, both with regard to the decision making and the implementation stage of the policy-making process: regional policy and transport policy.

General

Imprint:	ECPR Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2012
First published:	February 2013
Authors:	Andre Kaiser • Jan Biela • Annika Hennl
Dimensions:	234 x 157 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	242
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-907301-33-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > General
LSN:	1-907301-33-X
Barcode:	9781907301339

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