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Policy Networks and Policy Change

Putting Policy Network Theory to the Test

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  • © 2009

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Authors:
  1. Hugh Compston

    1. Cardiff University, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Hugh Compston
    Pages 1-5

  3. Policy Networks and Resource Dependency

    • Hugh Compston
    Pages 6-17

  4. Actors and Resources

    • Hugh Compston
    Pages 18-33

  5. Policy Network Theory as a Theory of Policy Change

    • Hugh Compston
    Pages 34-51

  6. Policy Network Theory and the Future of Public Policy

    • Hugh Compston
    Pages 52-70

  7. Testing Policy Network Theory

    • Hugh Compston
    Pages 71-85

  8. Policy Implications of Technological Trends

    • Hugh Compston
    Pages 86-107

  9. Growing Affluence, the Shift to Services and the Growth of Women’s Employment

    • Hugh Compston
    Pages 108-132

  10. Energy, Mobility and Climate Change

    • Hugh Compston
    Pages 133-145

  11. Trade Expansion and the Internationalization of Production and Finance

    • Hugh Compston
    Pages 146-181

  12. Sex and Secularization

    • Hugh Compston
    Pages 182-193

  13. Population Ageing and the Expansion of Education

    • Hugh Compston
    Pages 194-206

  14. The Future of Public Policy

    • Hugh Compston
    Pages 207-218

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 219-278
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This study applies policy network theory to major technological, economic, environmental and social trends to generate propositions about the future of public policy. Among the findings are that we should expect more business-friendly policies, more intrusive law enforcement, more women-friendly policies, and stronger climate policies.

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  • Cardiff University, UK

    Hugh Compston

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HUGH COMPSTON is a Reader in the Department of Politics, Cardiff School of European Studies, Cardiff University, UK, and has written extensively on public policy and policy-making. Recent publications include King Trends and the Future of Public Policy, Handbook of Public Policy in Europe: Britain, France and Germany (editor), and Turning Down the Heat: The Politics of Climate Policy in Affluent Democracies (co-editor with Ian Bailey).
 
 

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