Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of contributors v
4. Preface vi
5. Part One Introduction 1
6. Part Two Stability and change
7. 2.1 Introduction 9
8. 2.2 How policies change: clean air policy in France and Greece 15
9. 2.3 When a solution becomes the problem: policy reversals in Korea and Japan 31
10. 2.4 Stability with change: work–family balance policies in Taiwan 45
11. 2.5 Understanding the political context of nuclear energy policy change in Sweden 55
12. Part Three Agenda setting
13. 3.1 Introduction 69
14. 3.2 Agenda setting in a parliamentary federation: universal Medicare in Canada 75
15. 3.3 Flood mitigation policy in the United States 89
16. 3.4 Focusing events, priority problems and governance arrangements: 101 regulatory reforms in the health and eldercare sector in Sweden and Japan 101
17. 3.5 The evolution of gender equality policy in New Zealand 115
18. Part Four Policy formulation
19. 4.1 Introduction 127
20. 4.2 Canadian disability policy formulation: social movement preferences and federal government choices of instrument design 133
21. 4.3 Defining ecological restoration policy in Sweden 149
22. 4.4 The role of local actors in water and flood management in France: between policy formulation and policy implementation 167
23. 4.5 Think tanks and policy networks in English education 179
24. Part Five Implementation
25. 5.1 Introduction 191
26. 5.2 Agency preferences and political conflict: policy implementation in the Netherlands 197
27. 5.3 Local histories and local sensemaking: a case of policy implementation in the English National Health Service 209
28. 5.4 Implementation of the structural development policy of Finnish higher education 221
29. Part 6 Governance and globalism
30. 6.1 Introduction 233
31. 6.2 Minimum unit pricing of alcohol in Scotland 239
32. 6.3 The role of national and international policy actors and influences in crisis times: the case of Ireland 254
33. 6.4 Policy responses to climate change in Australia: contestation, complexity and uncertainty 267
34. 6.5 Cross-border healthcare in the European Union: EU governance and national responses in healthcare 281
35. References 295
36. Index 329