Triage Bureaucracy

Christoph Knill is Chair of Empirical Theories of Politics at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich. His research focuses on comparative public policy and public administration, with a thematic focus on climate, environmental, social, morality, and higher education policies. Yves Steinebach is Associate Professor at the University of Oslo. His research is located at the intersection of public policy and public administration and focuses on the effectiveness of public policies and governing institutions at the national and international levels. Dionys Zink is a research fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich. His work centers on organizational theory, public administration, and comparative policy analysis. He examines administrative culture, bureaucratic routines, and organizations tasked with the implementation of environmental policy.

• Preface; Abbreviations; Figures; Tables; 1. The challenge of implementing growing policy stocks; 2. Conceptualizing and explaining the impact of policy growth on implementation: bureaucratic overload and organizational policy triage; 3. Observing and explaining policy triage; 4. Denmark: another day in paradise with Christian Severin; 5. Germany: the tide is high with Christina Steinbacher and Alexa Lenz; 6. The United Kingdom: implementation on the highway to hell?; 7. Ireland: independent agencies walking on the bright side of life; 8. Italy: non mollare mai – never give up; 9. Portugal: it's a hard knock life with Christian Aschenbrenner; 10. Bureaucratic policy triage in comparative perspective; 11. Conclusion; Appendix 1: Overview of the empirical evidence; Appendix 2: Supplementary interview methods; Appendix 2: List of interviews; References; Index.

'Triage Bureaucracy is another important step in analyzing and explaining the consequences of the growth of rules in contemporary governments. This examination of the difficult choices that implementing organizations must make about rules contributes to understanding several important aspects of contemporary policy. It provides insights into the expansion of expanding public policy within society, but aids understanding the difficult tasks of individuals administrators and their organizations cope with necessary choices.' B. Guy Peters, Maurice Falk Professor of Government, University of Pittsburgh