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8.  Modern Statecraft

Author : Nils Karlson

Published in: Statecraft and Liberal Reform in Advanced Democracies

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Abstract

The chapter formulates a general theory of reform for advanced democracies and welfare states, modern statecraft. It identifies the causal mechanisms that can be traced in the case studies of how reform can be promoted. Modern statecraft requires a combination of knowing what and knowing how. Such statecraft takes place within the reform cycle, where advanced political skills and Popperian, Kuhnian, and Machiavellian reform strategies are used. This generates new policy ideas that in a polycentric effort of experiential learning involving a large number of actors, with a critical mass being intrinsically motivated, located in the central zone of the country, make welfare-enhancing reform possible.
In addition the chapter analyses the role of strategic reforms, the intentionality of the process, why the reform processes stopped, democratic dilemmas caused by the use of Machiavellian strategies, and whether the results hold for other countries.

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Most of my Australian interviews touched upon this question.
 
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Metadata
Title
Modern Statecraftmodern statecraft
Author
Nils Karlson
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Statecraft and Liberal Reform in Advanced Democracies

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-64232-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-64233-8

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64233-8_8