Contents: The myths of reform
Duco Bannink and Sandra Resodihardjo; The 1984 reform of the European Dairy Policy: financial crisis
French leadership
and the reappraisal of the EC's core values
Gerard Breeman; The rewards of policy legacy: why Dutch social housing did not follow the British path
Taco Brandsen and Jan-Kees Helderman; The introduction of national quality policies: a comparison of Denmark and the Netherlands
Mirjan Oude Vrielink-van Heffen
Wendy van der Kraan and Bente Bjørnholt; Reforming Germany's constitutional right to asylum: a shifting paradigm
Fleur Alink; The Republic of Ireland's ban on smoking in the workplace: reframing the smoking issue
Melvyn Read; The reform of Dutch disability insurance: a crisis-induced shift of preferences and possibilities
Duco Bannink
Sanneke Kuipers and Tineke Lantink; Modernizing English local government: voice
loyality
and exit in the demise of the committee system
Francesca Gains; District development planning in Heidelberg: realizing change through political leadership and community involvement
Michael Haus; Safety policy reform in Rotterdam: changing priorities in big city governance
Julien van Ostaaijen and Frank Hendriks; Explaining reform in Europe: comparison
patterns and reflections
Liesbet Heyse
Berber Lettinga and Martijn Groenleer; Epilogue: friction
resistance
and breakthroughs
Frank Baumgartner; Index.
