This book examines the role of scientific expertise in minimum wage policy making in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It finds that scientific research is an important part of the public discourse on minimum wages in all three countries. Newspapers frequently cite scholars and research institutions, providing their readers with a good sense of how scientific research evaluates the effects of minimum wages. How often this happens depends on the context. Most importantly, newspapers from the United States cite researchers more frequently than newspapers from the two European countries. The book also shows that scientific research influences the policy preferences of political actors such as trade unions, political parties, and government agencies. The influence is based on policy-oriented learning. It is strong in Germany and the United Kingdom, and weaker in the United States. In both cases, cross-country differences are found to be related to different styles of using scientific expertise in the three countries.
| ISBN: | 9783658327453 |
| Publication date: | 2nd March 2021 |
| Author: | Fabian Klein |
| Publisher: | Springer VS an imprint of Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 228 pages |
| Series: | Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft |
| Genres: |
Comparative politics Central / national / federal government |
This book examines the role of scientific expertise in minimum wage policy making in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It finds that scientific research is an important part of the public discourse on minimum wages in all three countries. Newspapers frequently cite scholars and research institutions, providing their readers with a good sense of how scientific research evaluates the effects of minimum wages. How often this happens depends on the context. Most importantly, newspapers from the United States cite researchers more frequently than newspapers from the two European countries. The book also shows that scientific research influences the policy preferences of political actors such as trade unions, political parties, and government agencies. The influence is based on policy-oriented learning. It is strong in Germany and the United Kingdom, and weaker in the United States. In both cases, cross-country differences are found to be related to different styles of using scientific expertise in the three countries.
The Role of Scientific Expertise in Minimum Wage Policy Making features in the following genres: Comparative politics, Central / national / federal government
The Role of Scientific Expertise in Minimum Wage Policy Making is available in Paperback
The Role of Scientific Expertise in Minimum Wage Policy Making was written by Fabian Klein and published by Springer VS an imprint of Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
The Role of Scientific Expertise in Minimum Wage Policy Making has 228 pages
Yes it is part of Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft series
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