Description
Book SynopsisThis book looks at the development of governance analysis in new conceptions of political and democratic communication.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Governance as political communication - Henrik P. Bang
2. New challenges to governance theory – Renate Mayntz
3. A constructivist bottom-up approach to governance – Jens Hoff
4. Decentring British governance: From bureaucracy to networks – Mark Bevir and R. A. W. Rhodes
5. Activation in governance – Jan Kooiman
6. Governance and metagovernance: On reflexivity, requisite variety and requisite irony – Bob Jessop
7. Culture governance and individualisation – Mitchell Dean
8. Pierre Bourdieu’s political sociology and governance perspectives – David L. Schwartz
9. The language of democracy and the democracy of language – John G. Gunnell
10. Contingency and the limits of contract – Tracy B. Strong
11. A decentred theory of governance – Mark Bevir
12. Governing at close range: Demo-elites and laypeople – Henrik P. Bang and Torben Bech Dryberg
13. A new ruler meeting a new citizen: Culture governance and everyday making – Henrik P. Bang
