Varieties of risk analysis in public administrations : problem-solving and polity policies in Europe
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Varieties of risk analysis in public administrations : problem-solving and polity policies in Europe
(Routledge studies in governance and public policy)
Routledge, 2021 , [Amazon]
- : pbk
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  Iwate
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  Fukushima
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  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
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [198]-215) and index
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book sets out a novel conceptual and analytical framework to explain why risk analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and similar analytical tools have gained sizeable currency in public administrations, in comparative perspective.
Situated in critical interpretive policy analysis methodology, the book systematizes and innovates respective debates in three ways. First, it develops a novel typology of actors' appreciations of analytical tools as instrumental problem-solving, legitimacy-seeking, and power-seeking. It conceptualizes the latter two as "polity policies" with actors seeking to confirm or rework decision-making structures. Second, the book theorizes how executive fragmentation and the multiplication of coordination requirements - often treated as hindrances to substantial analytical turns in an administration - nourish actors' ideal typical appreciations of analytical tools in distinct ways. Lastly, it scrutinizes varieties of risk analysis across three risk-heavy policy domains in Germany (including the EU) and discusses the potential of risk analysis to stabilize or transform decision-making in multi-level settings.
This book will be of key interest to policy analysts and risk analysts, and scholars of European politics, comparative politics, policy studies, public administration, multi-level governance, EU studies, risk analysis, policy evaluation, and the political sociology of quantification.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Exploring the Rise of Analysis in Public Administrations PART 1: Concepts and Theory: Contextualizing the Appeal of Analytical Tools 2. From Problem-Solving to Polity Policies: Three Interpretive Frames for Analytical Tools 3. Risk Analysis as a Semiotic Magic Bullet: Societal Risk Management, Institutional Risk Management, and Governance by Risk 4. Analytical Tools in Context: Why Risk Analysis Appeals in Multi-Level Administrations PART 2: Comparative Analysis: Risk Analysis across Three Policy Domains in Germany 5. Forging "One Voice" on the Common Market: Risk Analysis and the Unitarization of Food Safety Controls 6. Addressing Transregional Risks: Risk Analysis, Policy Coordination, and the Re-allocation of Flood Prevention Duties 7. Breaking Free of the "Legitimacy Trap": Risk Analysis as Collective Defence Strategy in Work Safety Inspections 8. Mapping and Understanding the Varied Appeals of Risk Analysis in a Multi-level Administration. Conclusion: Analyze and Rule: Findings and Future Research Venues
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