Product Description: Have bureaucrats taken over the decision making role of politicians? This book offers a direct assessment of the role of bureaucrats in policy making by analysing how they shape policy in making decrees - laws that generally do not pass through full legislative scrutiny...read more

Product Description: Policy making is not only about the cut and thrust of politics. It is also a bureaucratic activity. In this ground-breaking work, two leading authorities come together to examine the world of the policy bureaucrat for the first time...read more

Product Description: These two landmark volumes - prepared by leading authorities in the field - locate bureaucracy in its proper historical and theoretical context. They demonstrate that far from being a spent force bureaucratic organizations and processes are, and will continue to be, of central importance in the new millennium...read more

Product Description: Governing by Numbers is a jargon-free account of how delegated legislation-- laws that do not pass through the full legislative scrutiny to which Acts of Parliament are subjected --is made. It is based on in-depth new research. It deals with important issues, from the level of welfare benefits to weapons exports, animal health and the prevention of air pollution, yet has been largely ignored in studies of the British political and administrative system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection provides valuable information about the structures and composition of the higher civil service and its position in the political structure through a comparative analysis of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Greece, Denmark, and Sweden...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Who really runs the European Union? In his revealing study, Page provides a fascinating insight into the administrative machinery in Brussels, exploring the backgrounds and careers of top officials, and their relationship to their political masters. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Governing the New Europe provides a comprehensive and scholarly account of the changing political map of Europe as it emerges from the Cold War. Exploring the variations of liberal democracy and market economy among the European states, as well as current trends in these directions, the contributors to this volume, all leading authorities in European politics, consider whether a common political model has begun to emerge out of historic European diversity...read more

Product Description: This book examines the legal and political basis of relationships between national and local government in seven countries: Britain, France, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, and Spain. Page's study reveals significantly different approaches to the division of responsibility between central and local government...read more

Product Description: Central and Local Government Relations considers how best to organize local government units, and what powers and responsibilities should be devolved to local government. The book presents a comparative analysis of local governments in seven unitary states - Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Britain, France, Italy and Spain...read more

Product Description: The updated edition of this text develops a Weberian perspective through a comparative analysis of the development of bureaucracy in France, Germany, Britain and the USA. It explores the recruitment, training, work and competence of top bureaucrats and includes a section on the EC perspective...read more