Public Policy Disasters in Europe

By - Pat Gray and Paul 't Hart.[ed]

Floor - Floor 1

Published - London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

ISBN 10 - 0415170702

ISBN 13 - 9780415170703

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Political planning--Europe.

Shelf No - 15

Call Number - 320.6096 PUB

Physical Description - xv, 219 p. ; 25 cm.

Notes - Includes bibliographical references and index.

Book Information

This book considers some recent and spectacular failures in policy-making and asks what is meant by policy 'disaster', the different forms that they can take and why they have occured. These issues are explored in nine contrasting cases drawn from both the European Union and its member states. These include: the devastating crisis in the Belgium political system following the exposure of a paedophile ring; the crisis in the Dutch fight against drugs; 'Mad Cows', the 'Arms to Iraq' affair in the UK; monetary union between West and East Germany; the Swedish monetary crisis of 1992; and the EU's common fisheries policy and policies towards civil war in Yugoslavia. This book is an excellent study of how and why policies can go wrong and highlights the limits of what governments can achieve in Western Europe.

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