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advocacy
Advocacy Coalition Framework
Author_Holger Bahr
Baia Mare
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coalition
Coercive Policy Instruments
comparative public policy
Control Instruments
Control Legislation
EC Treaty
EEC Treaty
environmental
Environmental Policy Problems
environmental regulation Europe
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EU Policy Make
european
European Environmental Bureau
European Environmental Policy
European Social Policy
framework
Governance Instruments
governance mechanisms
institutional constraints
instruments
Member States
National Regulatory Approaches
policy
policy decision-making processes
policy instrument selection EU
Policy Issue
political
Political Steering
Preferred Policy Instrument
Qualified Majority Voting
Seveso Ii Directive
social
social policy analysis
Social Policy Problems
Soft Law
suasive
Suasive Instruments
Temporary Agency Workers
Vice Versa
Product details
- ISBN 9781409410706
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Policy instruments are techniques used to implement policy goals. Subject to political conflict, they address the relationship between those who govern and those who are governed. Why do political actors choose certain policy instruments to implement policy goals? Systematically comparing policy instruments employed in the European Union's environmental and social policy, Holger Bähr develops a general theoretical framework to illustrate how policy-makers prefer different types of policy instruments depending on the respective effect they wish to have on member state governments, citizens, consumers, and producers. He argues that institutions, the politicisation of policy problems and external events constrain political actors and provide them with the opportunity to transfer their preferred policy instruments into policy outputs at the end of decision-making.
Holger Bähr is a Research Assistant at the University of Konstanz, Germany
