This wide-ranging text provides an overview of major developments in governance in contemporary society. It illuminates recent theories about the relationship of the public and private sectors, and the interaction of politics and society.
The main development in recent years is shown as a shift in the balance between government and society towards the private sector. The book explores the ways in which new balances have been struck between state and market. It examines such new ventures in public-private interaction and endeavours to explain them in terms of coping with the dynamics, complexities and diversities of modern society. In doing so, it develops the outline of a new theory of social-political governance.
Table of Content
Social-Political Governance – Jan Kooiman
Introduction
PART ONE: CONCEPTUALIZATIONS
Governing Failures and the Problem of Governability – Renate Mayntz
Some Comments on a Theoretical Paradigm
Modes of Governance – Andrew Dunsire
Governance and Governability – Jan Kooiman
Using Complexity, Dynamics and Diversity
PART TWO: PREDICAMENTS
Lost Opportunity – Fr[ac]ed[ac]eric Royall
The Case of Labour Market Management in the Republic of Ireland
Public Policy Planning and the Problem of Governance – Kirsti Stenvall
The Question of Education in Finland
Women′s Emancipation as a Question of Governance – Marijke Prins
Actors, Institutions and the Room for Manoeuvre
PART THREE: EXPERIENCES
The Governance of Data Protection – Charles Raab
Environmental Regulation of Business – Martijn van Vliet
Options and Constraints for Communicative Governance
Public-Private Partnership – Vincent Kouwenhoven
A Model for the Management of Public-Private Cooperation
Dynamics and Room for Manoeuvre in Governance – Mich[gr]ele Breuillard
The Channel Tunnel Decision in France and Britain
Governance between Legitimacy and Efficiency – Geert Bouckaert
Citizen Participation in the Belgian Fire Services
Governance in Interaction – Herman Aquina and Hans Bekke
Public Tasks and Private Organisations
PART FOUR: PROSPECTS FOR REFORM
Public Management; from Imitation to Innovation – Les Metcalfe
Complexity, Governance and Dynamics – Walter Kickert
Conceptual Explorations of Public Network Management
Governance and the Problem of Representation in Public Administration – Ky[um]osti Pekonen
The Case of Finland
Modes of Governance and Administrative Change – Torben Beck J[/]orgensen
PART FIVE: EVALUATIONS
The Governance of Education – Roger Duclaud-Williams
Britain and France
Findings, Speculations and Recommendations – Jan Kooiman
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