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Book SynopsisGovernance has become one of the most commonly used concepts in contemporary political science. It is, however, often used to mean a variety of different things. This book helps to clarify this conceptual muddle by concentrating on one variety of governance-interactive governance. The authors argue that although the state may remain important for many aspects of governing, interactions between state and society represent an important, and perhaps increasingly important, dimension of governance. These interactions may be with social actors such as networks, with market actors or with other governments, but all these forms represent means of governing involving mixtures of state action with the actions of other entities.This book explores thoroughly this meaning of governance, and links it to broader questions of governance. In the process of explicating this dimension of governance the authors also explore some of the more fundamental questions about governance theory. For example, alth
Trade ReviewEvery so often a book comes along that catches and consolidates fundamental shifts in the practice or breakthroughs in the study of public administration. ... My hunch is that Interactive Governance could be such a book; it is at least my belief that it should be. ... Their work allows even-handed judgments and retains a key awareness of the complexities, trade-offs, and potential negative side-effects of what seems to be the new frontier in the way in which modern societies govern themselves. * Paul t Hart, Public Administration *
Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. The Governance Debate and the Rise of Interactive Governance ; 2. Governance in other Disciplines: One Approach or Many? ; 3. Power and Politics In Interactive Governance ; 4. Measuring Governance ; 5. Horizontal, Vertical, and Diagonal Governance ; 6. Institutionalizing Interactive Governance ; 7. Metagovernance: The Art of Governing Interactive Governance ; 8. New Roles and Role Dilemmas in Interactive Governance ; 9. Assessing and Improving Effective Interactive Governance ; 10. Assessing And Improving The Democratic Quality of Interactive Governance ; 11. Transparency and Governance ; 12. Conclusions ; References
