Policy Consultancy in Comparative Perspective: Patterns, Nuances and Implications of the Contractor State

Title: Policy Consultancy in Comparative Perspective: Patterns, Nuances and Implications of the Contractor State
Creator: van den Berg, Casper; Howlett, Michael; Migone, Andrea; Howard, Michael; Pemer, Frida; Gunter, Helen M.
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108634724
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Resource Type: book
Date: 2020
Description: Many Western countries have seen an increase in the volume and importance of external consultants in the public policy process. This book is the first to investigate this phenomenon in a comparative and interdisciplinary way. The analysis shows who these consultants are, and how widely and for what reasons they are used in Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and Sweden. In doing so, the book addresses the positive and negative implications of high levels of external policy consultancy, including its implications for the nature of the state (transforming into a contractor state?) and for democratically legitimized and accountable decision-making (transforming into consultocracy?) It provides valuable new insights for students and practitioners in the fields of public administration, public policy, public management, political science and human resource management.
Subject: policy; implications; policy consultancy; consultants
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1463595
Identifier: uon:46779
Identifier: ISBN:9781108496674
Language: eng