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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Orren, Karen (1942-....)
Skowronek, Stephen
Titre(s) : The policy state [Texte imprimé] : an American predicament / Karen Orren, Stephen Skowronek
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard university press, 2017
Description matérielle : viii, 253 pages ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Policy is government's ready response to changing times, the key to its successful
adaptation. It tackles problems as they arise, from foreign relations and economic
affairs to race relations and family affairs. Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek take
a closer look at this well-known reality of modern governance. In The Policy State
they point out that policy is not the only way in which America was governed historically,
and they describe the transformation that occurred as policy took over more and more
of the work of government, emerging as the raison d'être of the state's operation.
Rather than analyze individual policies to document this change, Orren and Skowronek
examine policy's effect on legal rights and the formal structure of policy-making
authority. Rights and structure are the principle elements of government that historically
constrained policy and protected other forms of rule. The authors assess the emergence
of a new "policy state," in which rights and structure shed their distinctive characteristics
and take on the attributes of policy. Orren and Skowronek address the political controversies
swirling around American government as a consequence of policy's expanded domain.
On the one hand, the policy state has rendered government more flexible, responsive,
and inclusive. On the other, it has mangled government's form, polarized its politics,
and sowed deep distrust of its institutions. The policy state frames an American predicament:
policy has eroded the foundations of government, even as the policy imperative pushes
us ever forward, into an uncertain future.
Sujet(s) : Politique publique -- États-Unis
Politique et gouvernement -- États-Unis
Indice(s) Dewey :
320.609 73 (23e éd.) = Élaboration des politiques - États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674728745. - ISBN 0674728742 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb454254059
Notice n° :
FRBNF45425405
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Part I: Introduction. Public policy and state formation ; The policy motive ; Part
II: The policy state. Rights in the policy state ; Structure in the policy state ;
Politics in the policy state.
