David Levi-Faur (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Governance

Oxford University Press, 2012. — 828 p.The Oxford Handbook of Governance presents an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the social science literature on governance. It is the definitive study of governance for years to come which is a must-have reference guide for any student or expert in government, political science, law, management, public administration, social sciences, economics, journalism, banking, and philosophy. The volume presents the core concepts and knowledge that have evolved in the study of governance in different levels and arenas of politics and policymaking. In doing so it establishes itself as the essential point of reference for all those studying politics, society, and economics from a governance perspective. The volume comprises fifty-two chapters from leaders in the field. The chapters are organized in nine sections dealing with topics that include governance as the reform of the state, democratic governance, European governance, and global governance.Governance is said to be many things, including a buzzword, a fad, a framing device, a bridging concept, an umbrella concept, a descriptive concept, a slippery concept, an empty signifier, a weasel word, a fetish, a field, an approach, a theory and a perspective. In this handbook, governance is an interdisciplinary research agenda on order and disorder, efficiency and legitimacy all in the context of the hybridization of modes of control that allow the production of fragmented and multidimensional order within the state, by the state, without the state, and beyond the state. Th e plurality of the modes of control reflect and reshape new ways of making politics, new understanding of institutions of the state and beyond the state and allow us to explore new ways for the control of risks, empowering citizens and promoting new and experimentalist forms of democratic decision-making. As the Oxford Handbook of Governance intends to demonstrate, governance is increasingly becoming a broad concept that is central to the study of political, economic, spatial, and social order in general and to the understanding of the dynamics of change of capitalist democracies in particular.ContentsNotes on Contributors
List of Tables
List of FiguresPart I: Introduction
From “Big Government” to “Big Governance”?
David Levi-FaurGovernance as Political Theory 19
B. Guy PetersWaves of Governance
R. A. W. RhodesThe Many Faces of Governance: Adaptation? Transformation? Both? Neither?
Laurence E. Lynn, JrNew Governance as Regulatory Governance
Orly LobelGovernance: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Peer ZumbansenPart II: Theoretical Lenses
Governance Networks
Jacob TorfingInformation and Governing: Cybernetic Models of Governance
B. Guy PetersGovernance and Complexity
Volker SchneiderGood Governance
Bo RothsteinGovernance and Learning
Fabrizio Gilardi & Claudio M. RadaelliExperimentalist Governance
Charles F. Sabel & Jonathan ZeitlinPart III: Governance and the Reform of the State
Governance and Institutional Flexibility
Jon PierreNew Public Management and Governance: A Comparison
Erik Hans KlijnGovernance and Innovation in the Public Sector
Eva SorensenGovernance and State Structures
Niamh HardimanNew Governance and Policy Instruments: Are Governments Going “Soft ”?
Amos ZehaviGovernance and Administrative Reforms
Tom Christensen & Per LagreidGovernance and Patronage
Matthew FlindersGovernance and State Capacity
Felicity MatthewsThe Impact of Governance: A Normative and Empirical Discussion
Erik Hans Klijn , Arwin van Buuren , & Jurian EdelenbosPart IV: Actors, Strategies, and Governance Styles
New Governance or Old Governance? A Policy Style Perspective
Jeremy RichardsonNGOs: Between Advocacy, Service Provision, and Regulation
Christopher Todd Beer, Tim Bartley , & Wade T. RobertsAgents of Knowledge
Diane StonePart V: Economic Governance
The Governance of Markets: On Generating Trust in Transactions
Frans van WaardenGovernance after the Crisis
Graham WilsonModes of Economic Governance: The Dynamics of Governance at the National and Firm Level
Dieter PlehweThe Governance of Central Banks
Ellen E. MeadePart VI: Governance of Risks
Risk and Governance
Elizabeth FisherThree Tensions in the Governance of Science and Technology
Susana BorrasClimate Change Governance
Thomas Bernauer & Lena Maria SchafferParat VII: Democratic Governance
Participatory Governance: From Theory to Practice
Frank FischerModes of Democratic Governance
Amit RonThe New Citizenship and Governance: Alternative Intersections
Susan D. PhillipsCollaborative Governance
Chris AnsellThe Democratic Quality of Collaborative Governance
Yannis PapadopoulosParticipatory Governance in Public Health: Choice, But No Voice
Yael YishaiA Return to Governance in the Law of the Workplace
Cynthia EstlundGovernance and Voluntary Regulation
Colin ProvostE-Governance and E-Democracy: Questioning Technology-Centered Categories
Eran FisherThe Fifth Estate: A New Governance Challenge
William H. DuttonThe Governance of Privacy
Abraham L. NewmanPart VIII: European Governance
The European Union — A Unique Governance Mix?
Tanja A. BorzelMulti-Level Governance in the European Union
Ian BacheInstitutional Change in European Governance: The Commission’s Implementing Powers and the European Parliament
Adrienne Heritier & Catherine MouryEU External Governance and Europeanization beyond the EU
Frank SchimmelfennigPart IX: Global Governance
Governance and Global Public Policy
William D. ColemanGlobal Governance, International Order, and World Order
Arie M. KacowiczGovernance in Areas of Limited Statehood
Thomas RisseGovernmentality in Global Governance
Alexandria Jayne Innes & Brent J. SteeleGlobal Governance as Multi-Level Governance
Michael ZurnReordering the World: Transnational Regulatory Governance and its Challenges
Marie-Laure Djelic & Kerstin SahlinIndex