Public policy and federalism
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Public policy and federalism
Ashgate, c2000
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text aims to improve knowledge on the impact of territorial organization of powers on policy-making from a comparative point of view. Case studies of six countries - federal and unitary states - establish the relationship between state structure (federal or unitary) on the one hand and policy formation and performance in regional and environmental policies on the other. It is revealed that we need more and more refined classification of the various forms of territorial division of powers in order to understand variations in policy performance.
Table of Contents
- Territorial division of power and public policy-making - an overview
- the territorial division of power in comparative public policy research - an assessment
- Canada - dual and executive federalism, ineffective problem-solving
- regional policy and energy policy in the light of Swiss federalism
- regional policy in Germany - the European Union as the "great healer?"
- living apart together - the Belgian intergovernmental co-operation in the domains of environment and economy
- ambigiuous centralism and occasional "federalism by stealth" - Great Britain
- the policy-making capabilities of a decentralized unitary state - the Dutch experience
- concluding remarks.
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