Key Concepts in Governance / Edition 1

by Mark Bevir

Overview

Clear, student-friendly introduction to the technical concepts and policies of contemporay governance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412935708
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/14/2009
Series:	SAGE Key Concepts series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Professor Mark Bevir is a member of the Department of Political Science at University of California, Berkeley. He was born in London and educated at the University of Exeter, U.K., where he got a BA (1st Class), and the University of Oxford, UK where he was awarded a DPhil. Before moving to Berkeley, he worked at the University of Madras, India, and University of Newcastle, UK. He has held visiting positions in Australia, Finland, France, U.K., and the U.S. Currently he is co-convener of the Interpretive Political Science specialist group of the Political Studies Association and President of the Society for the Philosophy of History.

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

Editorial Reviews

'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 Carolyn J. Heinrich, University of Wisconsin-Madison

'An authoritative short survey for which students and teachers alike will be profoundly grateful' - Professor Rod Rhodes, University of Tasmania and Australian National University

'Students of governance will welcome this book given the explosion of literature in the field. It provides a quick guide to key concepts and ideas but does so with considerable originality. We are offered not just a review of well -established positrions but a distinctive take on the governance debate' - Gerry Stoker, Professor of Governance, University of Southampton

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