Policies Without Politicians Bureaucratic Influence in Comparative Perspective

A comparative study of the everday policy making role of bureaucrats in six jurisdictions: France, US, Germany, Sweden, the European Union and the United Kingdom. It takes as its central focus the decrees and regulations that account for large proportion of government activity and explores the role of civil servants in their production.

Edward C. Page BA (CNAA) MSc PhD (Strathclyde) FBA was at the University of Hull prior to joinging the LSE. Recent books include Changing Government Relations in Europe (co-editor with M Goldsmith) Routledge,2010; From the Active to the Enabling State (co-editor with the late Vincent Wright) Palgrave 2006; Policy Bureaucracy: Government With a Cast of Thousands (with the late Bill Jenkins) Oxford University Press, 2005; Governing by Numbers: Delegated Legislation and Everyday Policy Making, Hart Publishing 2001. He has written many articles on comparative public policy and administration and British government. He has been Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science since 2001.