CONTENTS
List of illustrations = ix
List of contributors = ⅹ
Series editor's preface = xiii
Acknowledgements = xv
PART Ⅰ : Introduction = 1
1 Policy disasters in Europe : an introduction / PAT GRAY = 3
PART Ⅱ : The core functions of the state = 21
2 The disastrous justice system in Belgium : a crisis of democracy? / LODE VAN OUTRIVE = 23
3 The mass media and policy disasters : the IRT disaster and the crisis in crime-fighting in the Netherlands / MARK BOVENS ; PAUL 'T HART ; SANDER DEKKER ; GERDIEN VERHEUVEL ; ELINE DE VRIES = 39
PART Ⅲ : The 'welfare' state = 59
4 The BSE crisis : public health and the 'risk society' / ROB BAGGOTT = 61
5 Italian public policy and the Southern Question : policy disaster or political disaster? / ROBERT SYKES = 79
6 An unavoidable disaster? The German currency union of 1990 / WOLFGANG SEIBEL = 96
PART Ⅳ : The state in its international context = 113
7 'Errors of an administrative nature'? Explaining the 'Arms to Iraq' affair / PAT GRAY = 115
8 In defence of the Swedish crown : from triumph to tragedy and back? / ERIC STERN ; BENGT SUNDELIUS = 135
PART Ⅴ : The European Union level = 153
9 The Common Fisheries Policy : a European disaster? / ELLA RITCHIE ; ANTHONY ZITO = 155
10 The chance of a lifetime? The European Continuity's foreign and refugee policies towards the conflict in Yugoslavia, 1991 - 95 / JOANNE VAN SELM-THORBURN ; BERTJAN VERBEEK = 175
PART Ⅵ
Conclusion = 193
11 Explaining policy disasters in Europe : comparisons and reflections / MARK BOVENS ; PAUL 'T HART ; B. GUY PETERS = 195
Index = 215