Holger Bähr

The Politics of Means and Ends (eBook, PDF)

Policy Instruments in the European Union

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 Bÿhr 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317020417
• Artikelnr.: 44863492

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Explaining policy instruments
Comparing policy areas
European environmental policy
European social policy
Policy instruments in European environmental policy and European social policy
Conclusion
Annex
Bibliography
Index.