\aDismantling public policy : \b preferences, strategies, and effects / \c edited by Michael W. Bauer ... [et al.].
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\a1st ed.
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\aOxford : \b Oxford University Press, \c 2012.
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\axv, 230 p. ; \c 24 cm.
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\aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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\aPart I Dismantling Debates and Analytical Approaches -- Policy Dismantling : An Introduction -- Understanding Policy Dismantling: An Analytical Framework -- Part II The Dynamics of Policy Dismantling -- Active Dismantling : Sequences of Active Policy Dismantling? Path Dependency in Pension Reform Processes -- Active Dismantling Under High Institutional Constraints? Explaining the Bush Administration's Attempts to Weaken US Air Pollution Control Policy -- Dismantling by Default -- From Dismantling by Default to Arena Shifting? Child Benefits Policy in Spain -- Dismantling by Default? The Indexation of Social Benefits in Four Countries -- When the Dismantling of an Ineffective Policy Becomes Increasingly Costly: Default Strategies, Arena-shifting and Symbolic Action in German Waste Policy -- From Dismantling by Default to Symbolic Dismantling? Water Policy in the United Kingdom -- Part III Comparative Conclusions -- Dismantling Public Policy: Preferences, Strategies, and Effects.