Author: Gray, Pat & Paul 't Hart (eds.)
Title: Public Policy Disasters in Europe.
Description: London & New York : Routledge, 1998. Hardcover. 240 pp.(Routledge Research in European Public Policy). -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. ry stamps. Dutch text. Condition : very good. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. ISBN 9780415170703.

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