Books by Jan-Erik Lane

This volume is an invaluable, highly readable new text for graduate and undergraduate courses. It sets out the key challenges for globalization in the 21st century and looks at the challenges, responses and risks of globalization. It is required reading for analysts, students and professionals who want to understand what's at stake in the globalization debate.

An analysis of how globalization changes the boundaries between state and market, public and private, and government and society. Exploring the relationship between the state and the global political economy, this text also discusses poverty, population growth and environmental degradation.

Looks at the underlying social consequences of religious beliefs to account for the political differences between major civilizations of the world against a background of the rise of modern capitalism. This book offers an appraisal of the political and social impact of Islam.

Efforts at coordination between nations are at the heart of the challenges of globalization

Provides a comprehensive introduction to the enduring phenomenon of culture and its impact on contemporary society and politics. Combining a theoretical overview with comparative empirical research, this sixth volume contains useful references, as well material on ethnicity and religion. It is useful for scholars and students of political culture.

Offering a timely new appraisal of the political and social impact of Islam, Religion and Politics will be welcomed by political scientists and historians alike.

An overview of European politics, emphasizing convergence rather than divergence. This analytic approach to economic, cultural and political aspects of politics in Europe presents a Europe that has more in common in the late 1990s than ever before.

The Third Edition of this successful textbook introduces students to the major concepts, models, and approaches surrounding the public sector. Now fully updated to include coverage of the New Public Management (NPM), The Public Sector is the most comprehensive textbook on theories of public policy and public administration.The Public Sector is introduced within a three-part framework: public resource allocation, redistribution and regulation. Jan-Erik Lane explains the basic concepts of each of these broad areas, and goes on to examine their consequences for various approaches to the making and implementation of public policy.The book explores models of management, effectiveness and efficiency, and evaluates the contribution, among many, of public choice and neo-institutionalist approaches, organizational theory, models of normative policy-making and, expanded in this edition, the theory of fiscal federalism.The New Edition retains chapters on public sector reform and continues to contrast the logic of the new management state with that of the old administrative state before introducing the basic ideas of New Public Management. The Public Sector will be essential reading to all students seeking a deeper understanding of the modern state and government across political science and public policy, administration and management.

Politics and Society in Western Europe is a comprehensive introduction for students of West European politics and of comparative politics. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated to meet with the new needs of undergraduate students as they come to terms with a changing social and political landscape in Europe.

Drawing on economics, organisational theory and politics, Jan-Erik Lane presents new public management from an analytical perspective.

Features a perspective on the public sector and presents a comprehensive analysis of exactly what it is and how it operates. This book covers the key issues of: the principal-agent framework and the public sector; public principals and their agents; the economic reasons of government; and more.