Dismantling Public Policy

Michael W. Bauer works on issues of European and multilevel public administration and is interested in comparative public policy analysis in particular in the European Union. He is Professor of Politics and Public Administration at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.Andrew Jordan is interested in the governance of environmental problems in different context, but specially the European Union. He is Professor of Environmental Politics in the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom.Christoffer Green-Pedersen has a long-time interest in the comparative politics of welfare state reforms. His recent research focuses on comparative political agenda-setting. He is Professor of Public Policy at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University.Adrienne Héritier's research extends to theories of institutional change in the European Union, comparative public policy, European policy making, Europeanization, regulation and new modes of governance. She is Professor of political science in the Dept of Political and Social Science and the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence.

• PART I - DISMANTLING DEBATES AND ANALYTICAL APPROACHES; PART II - THE DYNAMICS OF POLICY DISMANTLING; PART III - COMPARATIVE CONCLUSIONS; PART I - DISMANTLING DEBATES AND ANALYTICAL APPROACHES; PART II - THE DYNAMICS OF POLICY DISMANTLING; PART III - COMPARATIVE CONCLUSIONS

`Policy dismantling is a subject which has been studied before but only in a few countries and sectors and without ever arriving at definitive conclusions about the forces, actions and patterns of policy-making behaviour which result in or lead to this type of policy change. This excellent collection of articles by leading policy scholars moves this discussion forward through case study and comparative analyses of instances of policy termination in North America and Europe. It distinguishes between cases of active dismantling, largely symbolic terminations and 'dismantling by default' when policies are simply allowed to lapse, and in so doing helps to bring order and clarity to this important aspect of public policy-making.'Michael Howlett, Burnaby Mountain Professor, Simon Fraser University