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Triage Bureaucracy - Christoph Knill, Yves Steinebach, Dionys Zink

Triage Bureaucracy

The Organizational Challenge of Implementing Growing Policy Stocks
Buch | Softcover
340 Seiten
2026
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-66585-8 (ISBN)
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This book reveals how government agencies manage policy growth with limited resources, introducing 'policy triage' to describe crucial trade-offs. Drawing on cross-national insights, it appeals to those interested in governance, public administration, and real-world policy challenges. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
In an era of constant policy growth (known as policy accumulation), effective policy implementation is a growing challenge for democratic governance across the globe. Triage Bureaucracy explores how government agencies handle expanding portfolios of rules, programs, and regulations using 'policy triage' – a set of strategies for balancing limited resources across increasing implementation demands. Drawing on case studies from six diverse European countries, the authors show how organizations' vulnerability to overburdening and their ability to compensate for overload determine why policy implementation succeeds in some cases while it fails in others. Triage Bureaucracy offers a deeper understanding of the organizational dynamics behind effective governance and, by placing bureaucratic actors at the center of the policy process, shows why policy growth often outpaces our ability to implement it – shedding light on the consequences of an ever expanding policy state. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Christoph Knill is Chair of Empirical Theories of Politics at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich. His research focuses on comparative public policy and public administration, with a thematic focus on climate, environmental, social, morality, and higher education policies. Yves Steinebach is Associate Professor at the University of Oslo. His research is located at the intersection of public policy and public administration and focuses on the effectiveness of public policies and governing institutions at the national and international levels. Dionys Zink is a research fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich. His work centers on organizational theory, public administration, and comparative policy analysis. He examines administrative culture, bureaucratic routines, and organizations tasked with the implementation of environmental policy.

Preface; Abbreviations; Figures; Tables; 1. The challenge of implementing growing policy stocks; 2. Conceptualizing and explaining the impact of policy growth on implementation: bureaucratic overload and organizational policy triage; 3. Observing and explaining policy triage; 4. Denmark: another day in paradise with Christian Severin; 5. Germany: the tide is high with Christina Steinbacher and Alexa Lenz; 6. The United Kingdom: implementation on the highway to hell?; 7. Ireland: independent agencies walking on the bright side of life; 8. Italy: non mollare mai – never give up; 9. Portugal: it's a hard knock life with Christian Aschenbrenner; 10. Bureaucratic policy triage in comparative perspective; 11. Conclusion; Appendix 1: Overview of the empirical evidence; Appendix 2: Supplementary interview methods; Appendix 2: List of interviews; References; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.3.2026
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 250 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Wirtschaft
ISBN-10 1-009-66585-5 / 1009665855
ISBN-13 978-1-009-66585-8 / 9781009665858
Zustand Neuware
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