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| List of Tables and Figures | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Exploring Government's Toolshed | |
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| Government as a toolkit | |
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| Pay-offs of the 'toolkit perspective' | |
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| The focus and limits of the book | |
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| Where do we go from here? | |
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| Nodality | |
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| Detecting with nodality: nodal receivers | |
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| Effecting with nodality | |
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| The toolset in context | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Authority | |
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| Detecting tools based on authority: requisitions | |
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| Effecting with authority: tokens of authority | |
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| The toolset in context | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Treasure | |
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| Detecting with treasure: rewards | |
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| Effecting with treasure: from customized to open payments | |
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| The toolset in context | |
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| Organization | |
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| Detecting with organization: ergonomic detectors | |
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| Effecting with organization: direct action or treatment | |
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| The toolset in context | |
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| Comparing the Tools of Government | |
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| Government tools or tools of government? | |
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| Tools of which government? | |
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| Inside government: comparing government agencies | |
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| Retooling: change over time | |
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| The measurability of the toolkit approach | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Evaluating Government's Toolkit | |
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| Appraising government's use of tools: intelligent policy design | |
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| Reviewing alternatives: a rational choice? | |
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| Matching the tool to the job | |
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| Economizing on bureaucracy | |
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| A moral dimension? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Alternative Approaches to the Tools of Government | |
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| The institutions-as-tools approach: the tools of government as forms of organization | |
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| The politics-of-instrument-choice approach | |
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| Generic institution-free typologies of tools | |
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| The three approaches compared: a phoney war? | |
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| How the tools analysis of this book relates to other generic institution-free analyses of public policy instruments | |
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| The challenge of digital-age technology for the analysis of public policy instruments | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Looking Ahead: The Tools of Government in the Digital Age | |
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| The future as an extrapolation of the past: a new world of cyber-detection, group-targeting and variable nodality | |
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| Same tools, different governments | |
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| Sharpening government's tools? | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |