Statecraft and liberal reform in advanced democracies / Nils Karlson.
2018
JC574
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Title
Statecraft and liberal reform in advanced democracies / Nils Karlson.
Author
Karlson, Nils, 1958- author.
ISBN
9783319642338 (electronic book)
3319642332 (electronic book)
9783319642321
3319642324
3319642332 (electronic book)
9783319642321
3319642324
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 189 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-64233-8 doi
Call Number
JC574
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.51
Summary
This book explains how advanced democracies and welfare states can achieve welfare-enhancing, liberal institutional reform. It develops a general theory based on an extended comparative case study of Sweden and Australia over the last 25 years, and offers an in-depth contribution to the field of institutional change, explaining how to govern a country well and how to overcome different barriers to reform, such as special interests, negativity biases and media logic. It develops the concepts of the 'reform cycle', 'reform strategies' and 'polycentric experiential' learning in order to explain successful reforms, and the key role of policy entrepreneurs, who introduce and develop new ideas. The book further examines why these reforms came to an end. Karlson also applies the ideas of Popperian, Kuhnian and Machiavellian reform strategies, and explains why they are needed for reform to come about. The theory of modern statecraft presented here involves a combination of knowing wha t and knowing how. It has the potential to be generally applicable in any advanced democracy with the ambition to improve its economy and society. This book is of interest for anyone who is concerned about budget deficits, slow growth, over regulation, lack of structural reforms and the rise of populism. It will appeal to scholars of political science, public policy and political economy.
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Table of Contents
Barriers to reform
Two reform countries
Explaining institutional change
Reform cycles and reform strategies
The Swedish reform process
The Australian reform process
Modern statecraft
Summary and conclusions.
Two reform countries
Explaining institutional change
Reform cycles and reform strategies
The Swedish reform process
The Australian reform process
Modern statecraft
Summary and conclusions.