Dismantling Public Policy: Preferences, Strategies, and Effects

Abstract

PART I - DISMANTLING DEBATES AND ANALYTICAL APPROACHES 1. Policy Dismantling: An Introduction 2. Understanding Policy Dismantling: An Analytical Framework PART II - THE DYNAMICS OF POLICY DISMANTLING Active Dismantling 3. Sequences of Active Policy Dismantling? Path Dependency in Pension Reform Processes 4. Active Dismantling Under High Institutional Constraints? Explaining the Bush Administration's Attempts to Weaken US Air Pollution Control Policy Dismantling by Default 5. From Dismantling by Default to Arena Shifting? Child Benefits Policy in Spain 6. Dismantling by Default? The Indexation of Social Benefits in Four Countries Dismantling by Symbolic Action 7. When the Dismantling of an Ineffective Policy Becomes Increasingly Costly: Default Strategies, Arena-shifting and Symbolic Action in German Waste Policy 8. From Dismantling by Default to Symbolic Dismantling? Water Policy in the United Kingdom PART III - COMPARATIVE CONCLUSIONS 9. Dismantling Public Policy: Preferences, Strategies, and Effects PART I - DISMANTLING DEBATES AND ANALYTICAL APPROACHES 1. Policy Dismantling: An Introduction 2. Understanding Policy Dismantling: An Analytical Framework PART II - THE DYNAMICS OF POLICY DISMANTLING Active Dismantling 3. Sequences of Active Policy Dismantling? Path Dependency in Pension Reform Processes 4. Active Dismantling Under High Institutional Constraints? Explaining the Bush Administration's Attempts to Weaken US Air Pollution Control Policy Dismantling by Default 5. From Dismantling by Default to Arena Shifting? Child Benefits Policy in Spain 6. Dismantling by Default? The Indexation of Social Benefits in Four Countries Dismantling by Symbolic Action 7. When the Dismantling of an Ineffective Policy Becomes Increasingly Costly: Default Strategies, Arena-shifting and Symbolic Action in German Waste Policy 8. From Dismantling by Default to Symbolic Dismantling? Water Policy in the United Kingdom PART III - COMPARATIVE CONCLUSIONS 9. Dismantling Public Policy: Preferences, Strategies, and Effects