Key concepts in governance /

"A comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of the concepts embodied in governance and their wide-ranging applications and implications. An important read and reference for students and academics in the social sciences, particularly those engaged in public policy studies"--Professor Ca...

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Main Author: Bevir, Mark
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : SAGE Publications Ltd, 2008.
London : SAGE Publications, Inc., 2008.
Series:SAGE key concepts.
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Table of Contents:
  • I. What is Governance?; II. The Concepts; Accountability; Bureaucracy; Capacity; Center-local relations; Collaborative governance; Collective action problem; Communitarianism; Co-ordination; Corporatism; Decentralization; Dialogic policy-making; Differentiated polity; Enabling state; Environmental governance; Evidence-based policy; Global governance; Globalization; Good governance; Governance Indicators; Hierarchy; Implementation; Incrementalism; Institutionalism; Interdependence; Local governance; Managing networks; Market; Marketization; Metagovernance; Multi-level governance; Network; New public management; Participatory democracy; Pluralism; Policy cycle; Policy network; Public-private partnerships; Rational choice theory; Regionalism; Regulation; Regulation theory; Representative democracy; Rule of law; Social capital; Social constructivism; Social inclusion; Sovereignty; State; Systems theory; Transnationalism