Challenges to State Policy Capacity

1. Unpacking Policy Capacity: Issues and Themes
Martin Painter, Jon Pierre

2. Capacity Beyond the Boundary: New Regulatory State, Fragmentation and Relational Capacity
Kanishka Jayasuriya

3. Swings and Roundabouts? Multilevel Governance as a Source of and Constraint on Policy Capacity
B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre

4. The Europeanization of National Policy Capacities
Christoph Knill

5. Policy Instruments and Policy Capacity
B. Guy Peters

6. Machinery of Government and Policy Capacity: The Effects of Specialization and Coordination
Koen Verhoest, Geert Bouckaert

7. Ministries and Agencies: Steering, Meddling, Neglect and Dependency
Christopher Pollitt

8. Autonomization and Policy Capacity: The Dilemmas and Challenges Facing Political Executives
Tom Christensen, Per Lœgreid

9. Policy-Making Reforms and Civil Service Systems: An Exploration of Agendas and Consequences
Marleen Brans, Diederik Vancoppenolle

10. Public Service Reform and Policy Capacity: Recruiting and Retaining the Best and the Brightest
Peter Aucoin, Herman Bakvis

11. Policy Capacity and Citizens’ Attitudes: ‘Developmentalism’ in Nine Asian States
Ian Marsh

12. State Capacity in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan: Coping with Legitimation, Integration and Performance
Anthony B. L. Cheung

13. Conclusions: Challenges to Policy Capacity
Martin Painter, Jon Pierre

Nyckelord: Political Science and International Relations, Comparative Politics, Political Science