Table of Contents

Table of contents

List of Contributors

List of Tables

List of Figures

Chapter 1: The policy analysis movement: The state of the art

Marleen Brans, Iris Geva May and Michael Howlett

Part I: The Styles and Methods of Public Policy Analysis

Chapter 2: The Policy Analysis Profession

Yukio Adachi

Chapter 3: The choice of Formal Policy Analysis Methods

Claudia Scott

Chapter 4: From Policy Analytical Styles to Policymaking Styles

Patrick Hassenteufel and Philippe Zittoun

Chapter 5: Policy Analysis and Bureaucratic Capacity

Jose-Luis Mendez and Mauricio I. Dussauge-Laguna

Chapter 6: Reflections on Thirty Years of Policy Advice

Beryl A. Radin

Part II: Policy Analysis by Governments

Chapter 7: Policy Analysis in the Central Government

Arnošt Veselý

Chapter 8: Policy Analysis in Sub-national Governments

Joshua Newman

Chapter 9: Policy Analysis at the Local Level

Martin Lundin and PerOla Öberg

Chapter 10. Evidence-Based Budgetary Policy: Speaking Truth to Power?

Frans K.M. van Nispen & Maarten de Jong

Part III: Committees, Public Inquiries, Research Institutes, Consultants, and Public Opinion

Chapter 11: Public Inquiries

Patrik Marier

Chapter 12: Expert Advisory Bodies in The Policy System

Kate Crowley & Brian Head

Chapter 13: Policy Analysis in the Legislative Branch

Wouter Wolfs & Lieven De Winter

Chapter 14: Management Consultancy and the Varieties of Capitalism

Denis Saint-Martin

Chapter 15: Public Opinion and Policy Analysis

Christine Rothmayr

Part IV: Parties and Interest Group-Based Policy Analysis

Chapter 16: Who Are The Political Parties’ Ideas Factories? On Policy Analysis By Political: Party Think Tanks

Valérie Pattyn, Gilles Pittoors & Steven Van Hecke

Chapter 17: Business Associations and the Public Policy Process: When do they do Policy Analysis?

Aidan R. Vining and Anthony E. Boardman

Chapter 18: Policy Analysis by the Labour Movement: A Comparative Analysis of Labour Market Policy in Germany, Denmark and The United States

Michaela Schulze and Wolfgang Schroeder

Chapter 19: Policy Analysis and the Voluntary Sector

Bryan Evans, Juniper Glass and Adam Wellstead

Part V: Academic and Advocacy-Based Policy Analysis

Chapter 20: Media and Policy Analysis

Yu-Ying Kuo and Ming Huei Cheng

Chapter 21: Policy Analysis and Think Tanks in Comparative Perspective

Diane Stone and Stella Ladi

Chapter 22: Academic Policy Analysis and Research Utilization in Policymaking

Sonja Blum and Marleen Brans

Chapter 23: Public Policy Studies in North America and Europe

Johanu Botha, Iris Geva-May, and Allan M. Maslove

About the Author

Marleen Brans is Professor at the KU Leuven Public Governance Institute and visiting Professor at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. She specialises in the study of the production and uptake of policy advice.

Iris Geva-May is Professor Emerita at Simon Fraser University and Visiting Professor, Baruch College School of Public Affairs, CUNY. She is Founding Editor-in-Chief of Routledge’s Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice and Founding President of the International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum.

Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Chair in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Canada and Yong Pung How Chair Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He specializes in public policy analysis, Canadian political economy, and Canadian resource and environmental policy.

Reviews

'Resources for scholars interested in comparative public policy have expanded greatly in recent years. The International Library of Policy Analysis edited by Geva-May and Howlett provides excellent country-level studies. Together with Brans, they provide in the new Routledge Handbook of Comparative Policy Analysis useful perspectives by distinguished scholars to guide comparison across national and subnational governments.' - David L. Weimer, Edwin E. Witte Professor of Political Economy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA'This is a landmark collection of essays on comparative policy analysis which brings insights from different levels of government and from a wide range of key players in the policy process - think tanks, interest groups, business actors, labour groups, media, political parties and non-profits.' - Eduardo Araral, Vice Dean (Research) and Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore