Governance: A Very Short Introduction
The word 'governance' is ubiquitous. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund make loans conditional on 'good governance'. Climate change and avian flu appear as issues of 'global governance'. The European Union issues a White Paper on 'Governance'. The U.S. Forest Service calls for 'collaborative governance'. What accounts for the pervasive use of the term 'governance' and to what does it refer? It has a bewildering set of answers. The word 'governance' isused in a variety of contexts, but at a general level, it refers to all forms of social coordination and patterns of rule.In this Very Short Introduction, Mark Bevir considers not…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-164629-4
- EAN: 9780191646294
- Produktnummer: 14480583
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'912 KB
- Abbildungen: c. 7 black and white illustrations
Über den Autor
Mark Bevir is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of New Labour: A Critique (Routledge, 2005), Key Concepts in Governance (Sage, 2009), Democratic Governance (PUP, 2010), and The State as Cultural Practice (OUP, 2010). He is also the editor or co-editor of 10 books, including a two volume Encyclopaedia of Governance (Sage, 2007). He founded the undergraduate courseon 'Theories of Governance' at Berkeley and he teaches a graduate course on 'Strategies of Contemporary Governance'.
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