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"Summary: The contributors investigate policy paradigms and their capacity to explain the policy process - actors, ideas, discourses and strategies employed - to provide readers with a better understanding of public policy and its dynamics. Drawing together leading researchers in the field, this edited collection offers a unique insight into a selection of policy paradigms, investigating their significance for public policy, policy making and policy change, in both theory and practice. The contributions open up new avenues of research on policy dynamics while re-evaluating the accuracy and effectiveness of existing policy orthodoxy."

"his book explores the unintended and unanticipated effects associated with ̀modernization' projects and tackles the key question that they provoke---why do policy-makers persist in such enterprises in the face of evidence that they tend to fail?" "Paradoxes of Modernization first discusses what is meant by ̀modernization' and ̀unintended consequences', placing public policy reform within more general intellectual and social trends. It presents eight case study ̀modernization' projects. Their architects promised faster trains, a more efficient and reactive health service, a more motivated public service, better performing local government, enhanced information for prospective US university students, reduced rates of child mainutrition in developing countries, and a free, open, safe, interconnected cyberspace for people to conduct their social and political life. Each case provdes a neat story with a paradox that varies the modernization theme and tackles the question: why was the project pursued? The conclusion categorizes the cases in terms of their outcome, from success to disappointment, and suggests some strategies for a more balanced version of modernization for current and future policy-makers"

"Summary: A thoroughly updated investigation of the key theories in contemporary public policy"