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The politics of policy change : education and environmental policy in the Belgian communities and regions
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Florence : European University Institute, 2000
EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis
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DE RYNCK, Stefaan, The politics of policy change : education and environmental policy in the Belgian communities and regions, Florence : European University Institute, 2000, EUI, SPS, PhD Thesis - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/5166
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Regional government has become a fashionable topic of analysis, but the impact of regional autonomy on public policy has so far received little attention. In this book, Stefaan De Rynck examines how the creation of regional government has affected the substance of public policies in Belgium. He explains the observed pattern of policy change by referring to shifts in regional power structures. His publication offers a political analysis of policy change, and warns against concluding that public policy is responsive to social problems or cultural differences between regional societies. The book demonstrates the importance of political action for understanding the link between political institutions and policy change. In its case-studies, Changing Public Policy: The Role of the Regions focuses on the development of education and agri-environmental policy in Flanders and Wallonia since 1988, the year in which competence for these sectors was transferred from the national to the regional level. The research material on the policy cases covers a twelve-year period. It is based on a wide range o interviews and extensive documentary analysis.
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Defence date: 4 July 2000
Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Yves Mény (EUI, Florence, Supervisor) ; Prof. Dr. Michael Keating (EUI, Florence, Co-supervisor) ; Prof. Dr. Lieven De Winter (Université Catholique de Louvain-La-Neuve) ; Prof. Dr. Liesbet Hooghe (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
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Examining Board: Prof. Dr. Yves Mény (EUI, Florence, Supervisor) ; Prof. Dr. Michael Keating (EUI, Florence, Co-supervisor) ; Prof. Dr. Lieven De Winter (Université Catholique de Louvain-La-Neuve) ; Prof. Dr. Liesbet Hooghe (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digitised archive of EUI PhD theses completed between 2013 and 2017