Rethinking Theories Of Governance

Author : Christopher Ansell
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789909198
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Theories of Governance written by Christopher Ansell and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering whether theories of governance are useful for helping policymakers to meet and tackle contemporary challenges, this insightful book reflects on how a theory becomes useful and evaluates a range of theories according to whether they are warranted, diagnostic, and dialogical.

Author : Christopher Ansell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781035352722
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Theories of Governance written by Christopher Ansell and published by . This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are theories of governance useful for helping policymakers and citizens meet and tackle contemporary challenges? This insightful book reflects on how a theory becomes useful and evaluates a range of theories according to whether they are warranted, diagnostic, and dialogical. By arguing that useful theory tells us what to ask, not what to do, Christopher Ansell investigates what it means for a theory to be useful. Analysing how governance theories address a variety of specific challenges, chapters examine intractable public problems, weak government accountability, violent conflict, global gridlock, poverty and the unsustainable exploitation of our natural resources. Finding significant tensions between state- and society-centric perspectives on governance, the book concludes with a suggestion that we refocus our theories of governance on possibilities for state-society synergy. Governance theories of the future, Ansell argues, should also strive for a more fruitful dialogue between instrumental, critical and explanatory perspectives. Examining both the conceptual and empirical basis of theories of governance, this comprehensive book will be an invigorating read for scholars and students in the fields of public administration, public policy and planning, development studies, political science and urban, environmental and global governance. By linking theories of governance to concrete societal challenges, it will also be of use to policymakers and practitioners concerned with these fields.

Author : Stephen Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521712835
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Governance written by Stephen Bell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several problems plague contemporary thinking about governance. From the multiple definitions that are often vague and confusing, to the assumption that governance strategies, networks and markets represent attempts by weakening states to maintain control. Rethinking Governance questions this view and seeks to clarify how we understand governance. Arguing that it is best understood as 'the strategies used by governments to help govern', the authors counter the view that governments have been decentred. They show that far from receding, states are in fact enhancing their capacity to govern by developing closer ties with non-government sectors. Identifying five 'modes' of government (governance through hierarchy, persuasion, markets and contracts, community engagement, and network associations), Stephen Bell and Andrew Hindmoor use practical examples to explore the strengths and limitations of each. In so doing, they demonstrate how modern states are using a mixture of governance modes to address specific policy problems. This book demonstrates why the argument that states are being 'hollowed out' is overblown.

Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317496469
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Governance written by Mark Bevir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores new directions of governance and public policy arising both from interpretive political science and those who engage with interpretive ideas. It conceives governance as the various policies and outcomes emerging from the increasing salience of neoclassical and institutional economics or, neoliberalism and new institutionalisms. In doing so, it suggests that that the British state consists of a vast array of meaningful actions that may coalesce into contingent, shifting, and contestable practices. Based on original fieldwork, it examines the myriad ways in which local actors - civil servants, mid-level public managers, and street level bureaucrats - have interpreted elite policy narratives and thus forged practices of governance on the ground. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of governance and public policy.

Author : Desmond S. King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349247561
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Local Democracy written by Desmond S. King and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1996-07-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformation of British local government into a new and complex system of local governance raises fundamental theoretical questions as well as empirical ones. Rethinking Local Democracy argues that traditional defences of local government are no longer adequate and that the case for local autonomy and local democracy needs to be radically rethought. It brings together a set of specially-commissioned chapters by leading academics designed to stimulate and contribute to debate on these issues.

Author : Stephen Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139480014
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Governance written by Stephen Bell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-13 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several problems plague contemporary thinking about governance. From the multiple definitions that are often vague and confusing, to the assumption that governance strategies, networks and markets represent attempts by weakening states to maintain control. Rethinking Governance questions this view and seeks to clarify how we understand governance. Arguing that it is best understood as 'the strategies used by governments to help govern', the authors counter the view that governments have been decentred. They show that far from receding, states are in fact enhancing their capacity to govern by developing closer ties with non-government sectors. Identifying five 'modes' of government (governance through hierarchy, persuasion, markets and contracts, community engagement, and network associations), Stephen Bell and Andrew Hindmoor use practical examples to explore the strengths and limitations of each. In so doing, they demonstrate how modern states are using a mixture of governance modes to address specific policy problems. This book demonstrates why the argument that states are being 'hollowed out' is overblown.

Author : Bertrand Badie
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789904757
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking International Relations written by Bertrand Badie and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-28 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thought-provoking book, Bertrand Badie argues that the traditional paradigms of international relations are no longer sustainable, and that ignorance of these shifting systems and of alternative models is a major source of contemporary international conflict and disorder. Through a clear examination of the political, historical and social context, Badie illuminates the challenges and possibilities of an ‘intersocial’ and multilateral approach to international relations.

Author : Mark Bevir
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 144620975X
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The SAGE Handbook of Governance written by Mark Bevir and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mark Beeson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350311618
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Global Governance written by Mark Beeson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-16 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world currently faces a number of challenges that no single country can solve. Whether it is managing a crisis-prone global economy, maintaining peace and stability, or trying to do something about climate change, there are some problems that necessitate collective action on the part of states and other actors. Global governance would seem functionally necessary and normatively desirable, but it is proving increasingly difficult to provide. This accessible introduction to, and analysis of, contemporary global governance explains what it is and the obstacles to its realization. Paying particular attention to the possible decline of American influence and the rise of China and a number of other actors, Mark Beeson explains why cooperation is proving difficult, despite its obvious need and desirability. This is an essential text for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying global governance or international organizations, and is also important reading for those working on political economy, international development and globalization.

Author : Kristof van Assche
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319009842
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Governance Theory written by Kristof van Assche and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​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.