Power and Policy in Liberal Democracies

Summary: This textbook examines power and policy in four influential liberal democracies: France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. In part one, the authors provide an introduction to the politics of these four leading democracies, setting out the actors, arenas and agendas of policy in each country. The following sections explore four contrasting areas of policy: industrial, health , ethnic minorities and law ...and order. In the final part, these countries and sectors are discussed from the perspective of policy implementation, evaluation and comparison. This is the first work to integrate the field of policy studies with traditional approaches to comparative government. [read more]