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Key Concepts in Governance

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ISBN-10: 1412935709

ISBN-13: 9781412935708

Edition: 2009

Authors: Mark Bevir

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The language of governance has risen to prominence in the last twenty years as a way of describing and explaining changes in the nature and role of the state, but the concepts involved can be confusing as they are often new and come from diverse disciplinary and theoretical settings. Key Concepts in Governance provides a clear introduction to the technical concepts and policies of contemporary governance through short definitional essays. Each entry features: " a snapshot definition of the concept " a contextualization of the concept " an overview of relevant debates " a guide to further reading The book also includes a substantial introductory chapter which gives an overview of governance…    
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Book details

List price: $66.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited
Publication date: 1/14/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

What is Governance?
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