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Agenda-setting and policy analysis under institutional restrictions Agenda-setting and policy analysis under institutional restrictions
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Decision-making processes Decision-making processes
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Policy instruments Policy instruments
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Policy innovation Policy innovation
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Efficiency reforms Efficiency reforms
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Reforms resulting from Länder competition Reforms resulting from Länder competition
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Policy advice Policy advice
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Reforms resulting from popular demands Reforms resulting from popular demands
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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References References
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Eight Statist policy advice: policy analysis in the German Länder
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Published:July 2013
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Abstract
This chapter argues that while there is a fully developed government apparatus at the Länder level, as well as complete sets of actors and interests of civil society, there is still a major lack of governance autonomy. This is due both to a culture of co-ordination among Länder governments and the federal government as well as a strong tradition of administration-biased policy-making. A legal lens on issues and solutions dominates government discourses in most policy arenas. At the same time, Länder governments formally share responsibility in federal law-making via the Bundesrat, which reinforces the administrative practice of policy-coordination as multi-level policy-making. This serves as a clearing house for the overwhelming part of policy issues, sorting out the few political ones which make it on the federal-Länder agenda of high politics. The chapter argues that it seems almost impossible to make general statements about policy analyses in the Länder where European law and programmes are involved. Länder governments’ standpoint towards ‘European’ issues strongly depends on the policy fields affected. Where European funds are involved, evidence-based governance and a more economic and formal approach to policy analysis and policy-making is to be found – an innovation in view of Germany's legalistic tradition.
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