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  title info:
    title: Statecraft and Liberal Reform in Advanced Democracies
  name:
    name part: Karlson, Nils.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 189 p. 14 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book explains how advanced democracies and welfare states can achieve welfare-enhancing, liberal institutional reform. It develops a general theory based on an extended comparative case study of Sweden and Australia over the last 25 years, and offers an in-depth contribution to the field of institutional change, explaining how to govern a country well and how to overcome different barriers to reform, such as special interests, negativity biases and media logic. It develops the concepts of the 'reform cycle', 'reform strategies' and 'polycentric experiential' learning in order to explain successful reforms, and the key role of policy entrepreneurs, who introduce and develop new ideas. The book further examines why these reforms came to an end. Karlson also applies the ideas of Popperian, Kuhnian and Machiavellian reform strategies, and explains why they are needed for reform to come about. The theory of modern statecraft presented here involves a combination of knowing wha t and knowing how. It has the potential to be generally applicable in any advanced democracy with the ambition to improve its economy and society. This book is of interest for anyone who is concerned about budget deficits, slow growth, over regulation, lack of structural reforms and the rise of populism. It will appeal to scholars of political science, public policy and political economy.
  table of contents: 1: Introduction -- 2: Barriers to Reform -- 3: Two Reform Countries -- 4: Explaining Institutional Change -- 5: Reform Cycles and Reform Strategies -- 6: The Swedish Reform Process -- 7: The Australian Reform Process -- 8: Modern Statecraft -- 9: Summary and Conclusions.
  note: by Nils Karlson.
  subject:
    topic: Public policy
  subject:
    topic: Political theory
  subject:
    topic: Political economy
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Public Policy
  subject:
    topic: Political Theory
  subject:
    topic: International Political Economy
  subject:
    topic: Governance and Government
  classification: JF1525.P6
  classification: 320.6
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319642338
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64233-8
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    record creation date: 170904
    record change date: 20190704001644.0
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