Machine generated contents note: -- PART I: VARIETIES OF GOVERNANCE AS A CONCEPT AND EMPIRICAL REALITY -- 1. Re-Thinking Governance In Public Policy. Dynamics, Strategy And Capacities; Giliberto Capano, Michael Howlett And M. Ramesh -- PART II: GOVERNANCE DYNAMICS -- 2. Governing Cross-Border Capital Flows: The Dynamics Of Capital Account Policies; Manuela Moschella -- 3. Similar Regulatory Challenges But Contrasting Governance Modes? The Puzzle Of Governing Human Biotechnology Across Western Europe; Isabel Engeli And Christine Allison Rothmayr -- 4. Environmental Policy And Governance: Bringing The State Back In (Again)?; Anthony Zito -- PART III: GOVERNANCE STRATEGIES -- 5. Federal Strategies For Changing The Governance Of Higher Education: Australia, Canada And Germany Compared; Giliberto Capano -- 6. Research Policy As 'Carrots And Sticks': Governance Strategies In Australia, The United Kingdom And New Zealand; Jenny M. Lewis -- 7. Changing Multi-Level Governance: The Re-Gained Centrality Of National Policymakers In Recasting Pensions In Central Eastern Europe; David Natali -- PART IV: THE CAPACITIES OF GOVERNANCE MODES: EXPLAINING VARIATION IN MODES OF GOVERNANCE -- 8. Varieties Of Governmental Capacity And Autonomy: An Exploration Of Fukuyama's Hypothesis; Eduardo Araral, Riccardo Pelizzo, Aziz Burkhanov, Yu-Wen Chen, Saltanat Janenova And Neil Collins -- 9. Governing Health Care In An Imperfect World: Hierarchy, Markets, And Networks In China And Thailand; M. Ramesh, Wu Xun And Michael Howlett -- 10. Governance Capacities In The European Union:Normative Goals And Empirical Evidence; Eva G. Heidbreder -- PART V: CONCLUSION: MOVING FORWARD IN STUDIES OF GOVERNANCE ARRANGEMENTS -- 11. The Past And Future Of Governance Studies: From Governance To Meta-Governance?; Jeremy Rayner.
Summary:
"The study of governance may be currently in fashion, but it is also a firmly-established lens through which the complexities of contemporary policy making can be analysed while examining the ways in which a society and its political processes are organized and steered. Governance thus needs to be seen as a general concept within political analysis which offers a necessary heuristic tool for understanding the complexities of political processes, the policies these produce and the outcomes they generate. However, despite a great deal having been written on the subject in recent years, questions remain about many fundamental aspects of governance. This is especially the case when trying to define the modes of governance and their dynamics. Many varieties of governance exist, both cross-nationally and cross-sectorally: Understanding why and how it is important for the future of governance studies is the subject of the cross-national and theoretically-informed case studies presented in this volume"-- Provided by publisher.
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