Public Governance
Four Volume Set
Edited by:
- Mark Bevir - University of California, Berkeley, USA
Other Titles in:
Government & Governance
Government & Governance
March 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:
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
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
A Farazmand
Globalization and Public Administration
RATIONAL CHOICE
Garrett Hardin
The Tragedy of the Commons
O Williamson
Transaction-Cost Economics
K Dowding, P Dunleavy, D King, H Margetts and Y Rydin
Understanding Urban Governance
INSTITUTIONALISM
J March and J Olson
The New Institutionalism
F Scharpf
Co-Ordination in Hierarchies and Networks
I Greener
Understanding NHS Reform
THE REGULATION APPROACH
B Jessop
The Regulation Approach
B Jessop
Governance and Meta-Governance
J Peck and J Tickell
Neoliberalizing Space
SYSTEMS THEORY
M Brans and S Rossbach
The Autopoiesis of Administrative Systems
J Kooiman and M van Vliet
Self-Governance as a Mode of Societal Governance
J Kooiman
Societal Governance
INTERPRETIVE THEORIES
Mark Bevir
Governance and Interpretation
Mark Bevir
A Decentered Theory of Governance
Nikolas Rose
Governing 'Advanced' Liberal Democracies
VOLUME TWO: PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM
GENERAL
A King
Overload
V Wright
Reshaping the State
L E Lynn
The Myth of the Bureaucratic Paradigm
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
Larry D Terry
Administrative Leadership, Neo-Managerialism and the Public Management Movement
D Kettl
The Global Revolution in Public Management
NETWORKS
Chris Ansell
The Networked Polity
L O'Toole
Treating Networks Seriously
Vivien Lowndes and Chris Skelcher
The Dynamics of Multi-Organizational Partnerships
T Bovaird
Public-Private Partnerships
D Hodson and I Maher
The Open-Method as a New Mode of Governance
Mark Considine and J M Lewis
Governance at Ground Level
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
VOLUME THREE: PUBLIC POLICY
GENERAL
C Lindblom
The Science of Muddling Through
STEERING AND SERVING
D Osborne and T Gaebler
Community-Owned Government
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
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
AUDIT AND REGULATION
G Majone
From the Positive to the Regulatory State
C Hood, O James and C Scott
Regulation of Government
K Bakker
Neoliberalizing Nature?
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
DIALOGUE AND DELIBERATION
J Dryzek
Policy Analysis and Planning
J Forester
Beyond Dialogue to Transformative Learning
H Bang and E Sørensen
The Everyday Maker
VOLUME FOUR: DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE
GENERAL
R Keohane
Governance in a Partially Globalized World
GOOD GOVERNANCE
M Doornbos
'Good Governance'
D Williams and T Young
Governance, the World Bank and Liberal Theory
M S Grindle
Good Enough Governance
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
REPRESENTATION AND RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT
G Majone
Nonmajoritarian Institutions and the Limits of Democratic Governance
Mark Considine
The End of the Line?
M Minow
Public and Private Partnerships
C Lord and D Beetham
Legitimizing the EU
Andrew Moravcsik
In Defence of the Democratic Deficit
SOCIAL INCLUSION
R Putnam
Bowling Alone
K Armstrong
Rediscovering Civil Society
M Geddes
Tackling Social Exclusion in the European Union?
RADICAL DEMOCRACY
A Fung and E O Wright
Deepening Democracy
Mark Bevir
Democratic Governance
D Slater
Other Domains of Democratic Theory