Varieties of risk analysis in public administrations : problem-solving and polity policies in Europe /
Paul, Regine,
Varieties of risk analysis in public administrations : problem-solving and polity policies in Europe / Regine Paul. - First Edition. - 1 online resource. - Routledge studies in governance and public policy .
Introduction: Exploring the Rise of Analysis in Public Administrations -- PART 1. Concepts and Theory: Contextualizing the Appeal of Analytical Tools. From Problem-Solving to Polity Policies: Three Interpretive Frames for Analytical Tools -- Risk Analysis as a Semiotic Magic Bullet: Societal Risk Management, Institutional Risk Management, and Governance by Risk -- Analytical Tools in Context: Why Risk Analysis Appeals in Multi-Level Administrations -- PART 2. Comparative Analysis: Risk Analysis across Three Policy Domains in Germany. Forging "One Voice" on the Common Market: Risk Analysis and the Unitarization of Food Safety Controls -- Addressing Transregional Risks: Risk Analysis, Policy Coordination, and the Re-allocation of Flood Prevention Duties -- Breaking Free of the "Legitimacy Trap": Risk Analysis as Collective Defence Strategy in Work Safety Inspections -- Mapping and Understanding the Varied Appeals of Risk Analysis in a Multi-level Administration -- Conclusion: Analyze and Rule: Findings and Future Research Venues.
"This book sets out a novel conceptual and analytical framework to explain why risk analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and similar analytical tools have gained sizeable currency in public administrations. Situated in critical interpretive policy analysis methodology, the book systematizes and innovates respective debates in three ways. First, it develops a novel typology of actors' appreciations of analytical tools as instrumental problem-solving, legitimacy-seeking, and power-seeking. It conceptualizes the latter two as 'polity policies' with actors seeking to confirm or rework decision-making structures. Second, the book theorizes how executive fragmentation and the multiplication of coordination requirements - often treated as hindrances to substantial analytical turns in an administration - nourish actors' ideal typical appreciations of analytical tools in distinct ways. Lastly, it scrutinizes varieties of risk analysis across three risk-heavy policy domains in Germany (including the EU) and discusses the potential of risk analysis to stabilize or transform decision-making in multi-level settings. This book will be of key interest to policy analysts and risk analysts, and scholars of European politics, comparative politics, policy studies, public administration, multi-level governance, EU studies, risk analysis, policy evaluation, and the political sociology of quantification"--
9780429030543 0429030541 9780429638299 0429638299 9780429641466 042964146X 9780429635120 0429635125
10.4324/9780429030543 doi
Crisis management in government.
Risk assessment--Government policy.
Public administration--Decision making.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
JF1525.C74
352.4
Varieties of risk analysis in public administrations : problem-solving and polity policies in Europe / Regine Paul. - First Edition. - 1 online resource. - Routledge studies in governance and public policy .
Introduction: Exploring the Rise of Analysis in Public Administrations -- PART 1. Concepts and Theory: Contextualizing the Appeal of Analytical Tools. From Problem-Solving to Polity Policies: Three Interpretive Frames for Analytical Tools -- Risk Analysis as a Semiotic Magic Bullet: Societal Risk Management, Institutional Risk Management, and Governance by Risk -- Analytical Tools in Context: Why Risk Analysis Appeals in Multi-Level Administrations -- PART 2. Comparative Analysis: Risk Analysis across Three Policy Domains in Germany. Forging "One Voice" on the Common Market: Risk Analysis and the Unitarization of Food Safety Controls -- Addressing Transregional Risks: Risk Analysis, Policy Coordination, and the Re-allocation of Flood Prevention Duties -- Breaking Free of the "Legitimacy Trap": Risk Analysis as Collective Defence Strategy in Work Safety Inspections -- Mapping and Understanding the Varied Appeals of Risk Analysis in a Multi-level Administration -- Conclusion: Analyze and Rule: Findings and Future Research Venues.
"This book sets out a novel conceptual and analytical framework to explain why risk analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and similar analytical tools have gained sizeable currency in public administrations. Situated in critical interpretive policy analysis methodology, the book systematizes and innovates respective debates in three ways. First, it develops a novel typology of actors' appreciations of analytical tools as instrumental problem-solving, legitimacy-seeking, and power-seeking. It conceptualizes the latter two as 'polity policies' with actors seeking to confirm or rework decision-making structures. Second, the book theorizes how executive fragmentation and the multiplication of coordination requirements - often treated as hindrances to substantial analytical turns in an administration - nourish actors' ideal typical appreciations of analytical tools in distinct ways. Lastly, it scrutinizes varieties of risk analysis across three risk-heavy policy domains in Germany (including the EU) and discusses the potential of risk analysis to stabilize or transform decision-making in multi-level settings. This book will be of key interest to policy analysts and risk analysts, and scholars of European politics, comparative politics, policy studies, public administration, multi-level governance, EU studies, risk analysis, policy evaluation, and the political sociology of quantification"--
9780429030543 0429030541 9780429638299 0429638299 9780429641466 042964146X 9780429635120 0429635125
10.4324/9780429030543 doi
Crisis management in government.
Risk assessment--Government policy.
Public administration--Decision making.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
JF1525.C74
352.4