Routledge Handbook of Comparative Policy Analysis

Marleen Brans is Professor at the KU Leuven Public Governance Institute and visiting Professor at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. She specialises in the study of the production and uptake of policy advice.Iris Geva-May is Professor Emerita at Simon Fraser University and Visiting Professor, Baruch College School of Public Affairs, CUNY. She is Founding Editor-in-Chief of Routledge’s Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice and Founding President of the International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum.Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Chair in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Canada and Yong Pung How Chair Professor in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He specializes in public policy analysis, Canadian political economy, and Canadian resource and environmental policy.

• Table of contentsList of ContributorsList of TablesList of FiguresChapter 1: The policy analysis movement: The state of the artMarleen Brans, Iris Geva May and Michael Howlett Part I: The Styles and Methods of Public Policy AnalysisChapter 2: The Policy Analysis ProfessionYukio AdachiChapter 3: The choice of Formal Policy Analysis MethodsClaudia ScottChapter 4: From Policy Analytical Styles to Policymaking StylesPatrick Hassenteufel and Philippe ZittounChapter 5: Policy Analysis and Bureaucratic CapacityJose-Luis Mendez and Mauricio I. Dussauge-LagunaChapter 6: Reflections on Thirty Years of Policy AdviceBeryl A. RadinPart II: Policy Analysis by GovernmentsChapter 7: Policy Analysis in the Central GovernmentArnošt VeselýChapter 8: Policy Analysis in Sub-national GovernmentsJoshua NewmanChapter 9: Policy Analysis at the Local LevelMartin Lundin and PerOla ÖbergChapter 10. Evidence-Based Budgetary Policy: Speaking Truth to Power?Frans K.M. van Nispen & Maarten de JongPart III: Committees, Public Inquiries, Research Institutes, Consultants, and Public OpinionChapter 11: Public InquiriesPatrik MarierChapter 12: Expert Advisory Bodies in The Policy System Kate Crowley & Brian HeadChapter 13: Policy Analysis in the Legislative BranchWouter Wolfs

'Resources for scholars interested in comparative public policy have expanded greatly in recent years. The International Library of Policy Analysis edited by Geva-May and Howlett provides excellent country-level studies. Together with Brans, they provide in the new Routledge Handbook of Comparative Policy Analysis useful perspectives by distinguished scholars to guide comparison across national and subnational governments.' - David L. Weimer, Edwin E. Witte Professor of Political Economy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA'This is a landmark collection of essays on comparative policy analysis which brings insights from different levels of government and from a wide range of key players in the policy process - think tanks, interest groups, business actors, labour groups, media, political parties and non-profits.' - Eduardo Araral, Vice Dean (Research) and Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore