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Public Governance

Four Volume Set
Edited by:
  • Mark Bevir - University of California, Berkeley, USA


April 2007 | 1 736 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
The language of public governance referring to changes in the nature and the role of the state has arisen to prominence in the last twenty years across the social, political, and economic sciences. 'Public Governance' has also become a major topic of concern for political and non-profit actors, as evidenced, for example, by its role in shaping the lending criteria of institutions such as the World Bank.

A vast literature encompassing contributions derived from many of the leading theories in the contemporary social sciences, including rational choice, institutionalism, functionalism, systems theory, and interpretive approaches can be found across a large range of journals severing different academic disciplines. This four volume set is the first to collect the most significant and insightful articles into a single volume set.

Key Features:
  • Elucidates and explains many new trends of public sector reform at the state and local levels, including multi-level governance, new public management, networks, and partnerships
  • Explores these trends and others across many of today's most important areas of policy, such as urban regeneration, the environment, and e-governance
  • Illustrates ethical and political questions about good governance: how might we rethink accountability, social inclusion, and democracy given these extensive changes in political organizations?

Public Governance will be an essential purchase for academic libraries around the world.

Contents:
Volume 1: Theories of Governance
Volume 2: Public Sector Reform
Volume 3: Public Policy
Volume 4: Good Governance

 
VOLUME ONE: THEORIES OF GOVERNANCE
 
GENERAL
R A W Rhodes
The New Governance
Governing without Government

 
A Farazmand
Globalization and Public Administration
 
RATIONAL CHOICE
Garrett Hardin
The Tragedy of the Commons
O Williamson
Transaction-Cost Economics
The Governance of Contractural Relations

 
K Dowding, P Dunleavy, D King, H Margetts and Y Rydin
Understanding Urban Governance
The Contribution of Rational Choice

 
 
INSTITUTIONALISM
J March and J Olson
The New Institutionalism
Organisational Factors in Political Life

 
F Scharpf
Co-Ordination in Hierarchies and Networks
I Greener
Understanding NHS Reform
The Policy-Transfer, Social Learning and Path-Dependency Perspectives

 
 
THE REGULATION APPROACH
B Jessop
The Regulation Approach
Implications for Political Theory

 
B Jessop
Governance and Meta-Governance
On Reflexivity, Requisite Variety and Requisite Irony

 
J Peck and J Tickell
Neoliberalizing Space
 
SYSTEMS THEORY
M Brans and S Rossbach
The Autopoiesis of Administrative Systems
Niklas Luhmann on Public Administration and Public Policy

 
J Kooiman and M van Vliet
Self-Governance as a Mode of Societal Governance
J Kooiman
Societal Governance
Levels, Modes and Orders of Political Interaction

 
 
INTERPRETIVE THEORIES
Mark Bevir
Governance and Interpretation
What are the Implications of Postfoundationalism?

 
Mark Bevir
A Decentered Theory of Governance
Nikolas Rose
Governing 'Advanced' Liberal Democracies
 
VOLUME TWO: PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM
 
GENERAL
A King
Overload
Problems of Governing in the 1980s

 
V Wright
Reshaping the State
The Implications for Public Administration

 
L E Lynn
The Myth of the Bureaucratic Paradigm
What Traditional Public Administration Really Stood For

 
 
NEOLIBERALISM: NPM
Christopher Hood
A Public Management for all Seasons
Vincent Wright
The Paradoxes of Administrative Reform
D Grimshaw, S Vincent and H Willmott
Going Privately
Partnership and Outsourcing in UK Public Services

 
Larry D Terry
Administrative Leadership, Neo-Managerialism and the Public Management Movement
D Kettl
The Global Revolution in Public Management
Driving Themes, Missing Links

 
 
NETWORKS
Chris Ansell
The Networked Polity
Regional Development in Western Europe

 
L O'Toole
Treating Networks Seriously
Practical and Research-Based Agendas in Public Administration

 
Vivien Lowndes and Chris Skelcher
The Dynamics of Multi-Organizational Partnerships
An Analysis of Changing Modes of Governance

 
T Bovaird
Public-Private Partnerships
From Contested Concepts to Prevalent Practice

 
D Hodson and I Maher
The Open-Method as a New Mode of Governance
The Case of Soft Economic Policy Co-Ordination

 
Mark Considine and J M Lewis
Governance at Ground Level
The Frontline Bureaucrat in the Age of Markets and Networks

 
 
DEVELOPMENT
A Leftwich
Governance, Democracy and Development in the Third World
J S Wunsch
Decentralization, Local Governance and 'Recentralization' in Africa
S Knack
Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance
Cross-Country Empirical Tests

 
 
VOLUME THREE: PUBLIC POLICY
 
GENERAL
C Lindblom
The Science of Muddling Through
 
STEERING AND SERVING
D Osborne and T Gaebler
Community-Owned Government
Empowering Rather Than Serving

 
B G Peters
Politicians and Bureaucrats in the Process of Governing
Chris Huxham
The Challenge of Collaborative Governance
R B Denhardt and J V Denhardt
The New Public Service
Serving Rather Than Steering

 
 
NETWORK MANAGEMENT
R Agranoff and M McGuire
Managing in Network Settings
E-H Klijn and G Teisman
Managing Public-Private Partnerships
R Rhodes
From Marketization to Diplomacy
It's the Mix that Matters

 
 
AUDIT AND REGULATION
G Majone
From the Positive to the Regulatory State
Causes and Consequences of Changes on the Mode of Governance

 
C Hood, O James and C Scott
Regulation of Government
Has it Increased, Is it Increasing, Should it Be Diminished?

 
K Bakker
Neoliberalizing Nature?
Market Environmentalism in Water Supply in England and Wales

 
 
Policy Learning
I Sanderson
Evaluation, Policy Learning and Evidence-Based Policy Making
C de la Porte, P Poched and G Room
Social Benchmarking, Policy Making and the New Governance in the EU
F van Waarden
Persistence of National Policy Styles
A Study of Their Institutional Foundations

 
 
DIALOGUE AND DELIBERATION
J Dryzek
Policy Analysis and Planning
From Science to Argument

 
J Forester
Beyond Dialogue to Transformative Learning
How Deliberative Rituals Encourage Political Judgement in Community Planning Processes

 
H Bang and E Sørensen
The Everyday Maker
A New Challenge to Democratic Governance

 
 
VOLUME FOUR: DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE
 
GENERAL
R Keohane
Governance in a Partially Globalized World
 
GOOD GOVERNANCE
M Doornbos
'Good Governance'
The Rise and Decline of a Policy Metaphor

 
D Williams and T Young
Governance, the World Bank and Liberal Theory
M S Grindle
Good Enough Governance
Poverty Reduction and Reform in Developing Countries

 
 
PUBLIC SERVICE
L deLeon and R Denhardt
The Political Theory of Reinvention
M Haque
The Diminishing Publicness of Public Service under the Current Mode of Governance
E Vigoda
From Responsiveness to Collaboration
Governance, Citizens and the Next Generation of Public Administration

 
 
REPRESENTATION AND RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT
G Majone
Nonmajoritarian Institutions and the Limits of Democratic Governance
A Political Transaction-Cost Approach

 
Mark Considine
The End of the Line?
Accountable Governance in the Age of Networks, Partnerships and Joined-Up Services

 
M Minow
Public and Private Partnerships
Accounting for the New Religion

 
C Lord and D Beetham
Legitimizing the EU
Is There a 'Post-Parliamentary Basis for its Legitimation

 
Andrew Moravcsik
In Defence of the Democratic Deficit
Reassessing Legitimacy in the European Union

 
 
SOCIAL INCLUSION
R Putnam
Bowling Alone
America's Declining Social Capital

 
K Armstrong
Rediscovering Civil Society
The European Union and the White Paper on Governance

 
M Geddes
Tackling Social Exclusion in the European Union?
The Limits to the New Orthodoxy of Local Partnership

 
 
RADICAL DEMOCRACY
A Fung and E O Wright
Deepening Democracy
Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance

 
Mark Bevir
Democratic Governance
Systems and Radical Perspectives

 
D Slater
Other Domains of Democratic Theory
Space, Power and the Politics of Democratization