Barzelay, Michael 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3803-8947 and Gallego, Raquel
(2010)
The comparative historical analysis of public management policy cycles in France, Italy, and Spain: symposium introduction.
Governance, 23 (2).
pp. 209-223.
ISSN 0952-1895
Abstract
In recent studies of public management reform in France, Italy, and Spain inspired by historical institutionalism, the Napoleonic tradition is cast as a causal factor whose overwhelming strength explains how these countries' reforms proceed and finish. This symposium pursues the same research interest in the politics of public management reform and goal of understanding how reforms begin, proceed, and finish in these countries. However, the features of this research project include (1) a focus on instances of public management policymaking, (2) original research on public management reform episodes in each country, and (3) explanatory research arguments that place causation within events. Based on a comparison of explanatory research arguments developed in each case study, the symposium's conclusion extends earlier institutional processualist accounts of causal tendencies of public management policymaking and offers a critique of the historical institutionalist studies mentioned earlier.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14680491 |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. |
| Divisions: | Government Public Policy Group Centre for Analysis of Risk & Regulation |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jan 2011 10:37 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 22:52 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/31831 |
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