This follow-up volume updates the arguments and significantly expands the coverage of Richardson et al.'s respected and seminal Policy Styles in Western Europe (1982) which shed valuable light on how countries tend to establish long-term and distinctive ways to make policies that transcend short-term imperatives and issues.

Michael Howlett is Burnaby Mountain Chair and Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in the Department of Political Science at Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Jale Tosun is Professor of Political Science at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Heidelberg, Germany.

Introduction 1. Policy Styles: A New Approach [Michael Howlett and Jale Tosun] Part I: "Closed" Bureaucratic-Democratic Regimes 2. Policy Styles in the United Kingdom: A Majoritarian UK vs. Devolved Consensus Democracies? [Paul Cairney] 3. Policy Styles in Germany: Still Searching for the Rationalist Consensus? [Reimut Zohlnhöfer and Jale Tosun] 4. The Scholar-Official Policy Nexus and Confucian Policy Styles in South Korea [M. Jae Moon and Chang-ho Hwang] 5. Policy Styles in Mexico: Still Muddling Through Centralized Bureaucracy, Not Yet Through the Democratic Transition [Raul Pacheco-Vega] Part II: "Open" Democratic-Popular Regimes 6. The Co-Evolutionary Policy Style of Brazil: Structure and Functioning [Eduardo José Grin and Fernando Luiz Abrucio] 7. Over-Promising and Under-Delivering: The Canadian Policy Style of Punctuated Gradualism [Michael Howlett and Andrea Migone] 8. Policy Style(s) in Switzerland: Under Stress [Yannis Papadopoulos and Martino Maggetti] 9. The American Policy Style(s): Multiple Institutions Creating Gridlock and Opportunities [B. Guy Peters] Part III: "Closed" One-Party Authoritarian Regimes 10. Policy Styles in China: How to Control and Motivate Bureaucracy [Jiwei Qian] 11. Policy-Making Styles in Central Asia: The Soviet Legacy and New Institutions [Aziz Burkhanov] 12. Vietnam: The Policy Styles of a Lame Leviathan [Aurel Croissant] 13. The National Policy-Making Style of the United Arab Emirates: Fusing Patron-Client Networks into Modernity [Ahmed Mustafa Elhussein Mansour] Part IV: "Open" Electorally Competitive Authoritarian Regimes 14. The Riven Policy Style of a Post-Empire State: The Case of Russia [Dmitry Zatsyev] 15. Singapore's Policy Style: Gradations of Developmentalism [Jun Jie Woo] 16. Policy-Making in an Electoral Autocracy: Constitutional Reform in Togo [Anja Osei and Hervé Akinocho] 17. Napoleonic Traditions, Majoritarianism, and Turkey's Statist Policy Style [H. Tolga Bolukbasi and Ebru Ertugal] Conclusion 18. Empirical Insights on National Policy Styles and Political Regimes [Michael Howlett and Jale Tosun]