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The Politics of Means and Ends - Softcover

Bähr, Holger

 
9781138260962: The Politics of Means and Ends
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138260967 ISBN 13: 9781138260962
Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Holger Bähr is a Research Assistant at the University of Konstanz, Germany

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138260967
ISBN 13 
9781138260962
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
228