The study of the politics of regulation has followed two distinct paths in recent years.“New
institutionalism” research has focused primarily on the policy-making process, particularly …

While most studies of the determinants of regulatory policymaking have concentrated on
national-level issues, state-level regulatory politics represent a productive opportunity to …

In recent years, economic inequality has become a central topic of public debate in the
United States and much of the developed world. The popularity of Thomas Piketty's nearly …

This book represents a considerable revision and expansion of Public Choice II (1989). As
in the previous additions, all of the major topics of public choice are covered. These include …

Economists and Societies is the first book to systematically compare the profession of
economics in the United States, Britain, and France, and to explain why economics, far from …

Accountability is a core concept of public administration, yet disagreement about its meaning
is masked by consensus on its importance and desirability. This article proposes a five‐part …

The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) was developed to provide a causal theory of the
policy process which would serve as one of several alternatives to the familiar stages …

A new paradigm of political-bureaucratic relations emerged through the 1980s holding that
US democratic institutions continuously shape nonelective public bureaucracies. Several …

First published in 1991. This book initially offers a critique of some key rational public choice
models, to show that they were internally inconsistent and ideologically slanted. Then due to …

Decentralization has long been advocated as a desirable process for improving health
systems. Nevertheless, we still lack a sufficient analytical framework for systematically …