Author : Ansell, Christopher
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 2022-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1800371977
The thoroughly revised and updated Handbook on Theories of Governance brings together leading scholars in the field to summarise and assess the diversity of governance theories. The Handbook advances a deeper theoretical understanding of governance processes, illuminating the interdisciplinary foundations of the field.
Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Global, Area, and International Archive
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Comparative government
ISBN : 9781938169113
This book explores philosophical, sociological, and democratic approaches to organization. Bevir offers a humanist and historicist perspective, arguing that people creatively make and remake organizations in particular contexts. By highlighting the meaningful and contingent nature of action, he reexamines the concepts of state, nation, network, and market, and he calls for democratic innovations.
Author : V. Chhotray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 2008-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230583342
Confusion about governance abounds. Many lack appreciation of how different traditions of thought in the social sciences contribute to our understanding. This book tackles these weaknesses head on and aims to provide a wider vision of the area, examining three critical areas of practice: environmental, corporate and participatory governance.
Author : Kristof van Assche
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 2013-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319009842
This short books offers the reader a remarkable new perspective on the way markets, laws and societies evolve together. It can be of use to anyone interested in development, market and public sector reform, public administration, politics & law. Based on a wide variety of case studies on three continents and a variety of conceptual sources, the authors develop a theory that clarifies the nature and functioning of dependencies that mark governance evolutions. This in turn delineates in an entirely new manner the spaces open for policy experiment. As such, it offers a new mapping of the middle ground between libertarianism and social engineering. Theoretically, the approach draws on a wide array of sources: institutional & development economics, systems theories, post-structuralism, actor- network theories, planning theory and legal studies.
Author : Michael Zürn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 27,86 MB
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0192551809
This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a normative and institutional structure dominated by hierarchies and power inequalities and therefore inherently creates contestation, resistance, and distributional struggles. Within an ambitious and systematic new conceptual framework, the theory makes four key contributions. Firstly, it reconstructs global governance as a political system which builds on normative principles and reflexive authorities. Second, it identifies the central legitimation problems of the global governance system with a constitutionalist setting in mind. Third, it explains the rise of state and societal contestation by identifying key endogenous dynamics and probing the causal mechanisms that produced them. Finally, it identifies the conditions under which struggles in the global governance system lead to decline or deepening. Rich with propositions, insights, and evidence, the book promises to be the most important and comprehensive theoretical argument about world politics of the 21st century.
Author : John Gerring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,94 MB
Release : 2008-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521710154
This book outlines the importance of political institutions in achieving good governance within a democratic polity.
Author : Edward J. Balleisen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521118484
After two generations of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, we now see growing interest in the possibility of constructive governance, alongside public calls for new, smarter regulation. Yet there is a real danger that regulatory reforms will be rooted in outdated ideas. As the financial crisis has shown, neither traditional market failure models nor public choice theory, by themselves, sufficiently inform or explain our current regulatory challenges. Regulatory studies, long neglected in an atmosphere focused on deregulatory work, is in critical need of new models and theories that can guide effective policy-making. This interdisciplinary volume points the way toward the modernization of regulatory theory. Its essays by leading scholars move past predominant approaches, integrating the latest research about the interplay between human behavior, societal needs, and regulatory institutions. The book concludes by setting out a potential research agenda for the social sciences.
Author : Sandi Parkes Pershing
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1483320960
Applying organization theory to public and governance organizations, Organization Theory and Governance for the 21st Century presents readers with a conscious and thoughtful awareness of the history and evolving nature of organizations. Authors Sandra Parkes Pershing and Eric Austin address emerging theories rarely touched upon in competing titles, and take a deeper look into assumed theories to give the student a chance to critically consider the consequences these embedded assumptions have for organizational practice. By providing a consistent theoretical grounding and a clear focus on post-traditionalist thinking, the book gives students the background they need to analyze organizational settings and take effective action in the unique setting of contemporary governance.
Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199606412
Generally referring to all forms of social coordination and patterns of rule, the term 'governance' is used in many different contexts. In this Very Short Introduction, Mark Bevir explores the main theories of governance and considers their impact on ideas of governance in the corporate, public, and global arenas.
Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 10,9 MB
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 144620975X
The study of governance has risen to prominence as a way of describing and explaining changes in our world. The SAGE Handbook of Governance presents an authoritative and innovative overview of this fascinating field, with particular emphasis on the significant new and emerging theoretical issues and policy innovations. The Handbook is divided into three parts. Part one explores the major theories influencing current thinking and shaping future research in the field of governance. Part two deals specifically with changing practices and policy innovations, including the changing role of the state, transnational and global governance, markets and networks, public management, and budgeting and finance. Part three explores the dilemmas of managing governance, including attempts to rethink democracy and citizenship as well as specific policy issues such as capacity building, regulation, and sustainable development. This volume is an excellent resource for advanced students and researchers in political science, economics, geography, sociology, and public administration. Mark Bevir is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.
