Interactive Governance by Jacob Torfing, Jon Pierre, B. Guy Peters, Eva Sørensen
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Description Governance has become one of the most commonly used concepts in contemporary political science. It is, however, often used to mean a variety of different things. This book helps to clarify this conceptual muddle by concentrating on one variety of governance-interactive governance.
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Governance has become one of the most commonly used concepts in contemporary political science. It is, however, often used to mean a variety of different things. This book helps to clarify this conceptual muddle by concentrating on one variety of governance-interactive governance. The authors argue that although the state may remain important for many aspects of governing, interactions between state and society represent an important, and perhaps increasinglyimportant, dimension of governance. These interactions may be with social actors such as networks, with market actors or with other governments, but all these forms represent means of governing involvingmixtures of state action with the actions of other entities.This book explores thoroughly this meaning of governance, and links it to broader questions of governance. In the process of explicating this dimension of governance the authors also explore some of the more fundamental questions about governance theory. For example, although governance is talked about a great deal political science has done relatively little about how to measure this concept. Likewise, the term multi-level governancehas become widely used but its important to understand that idea more fully and see how it functions in the context of interactive forms of governance. The authors also link governance to some veryfundamental questions in political science and the social sciences more broadly. How is power exercised in interactive governance? How democratic is interactive governance, and is democratic governance always advanced through transparency?
Author Biography
Jacob Torfing teaches political science, political theory and public administration. He is the author of Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector (Georgetown University Press, 2016). He is Professor in Politics and Institutions at Roskilde University in Denmark and Professor II at Nord University in Norway. B. Guy Peters is an honorary professor at the City University of Hong Kong. He is author or editor of over 60 books and is currently foundingco-editor of the European Political Science Review. He is Maurice Falk Professor of American Government at the University of Pittsburgh and also Distinguished Professor of Comparative Governance at the ZeppelinUniversity in Germany. Jon Pierre holds adjunct professorships at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Nordland in Norway. He has published extensively on theories of governance, public administration and urban politics. He is co-author (with Guy Peters) of Governance, Politics and the State (Palgrave, 2000) and Governing Complex Societies (Palgrave, 2005) and editor of Debating Governance (Oxford University Press). He is Professor of Political Science atthe University of Gothenburg. Eva Sørensen is Professor of Public Administration and Democracy at Roskilde University, and Professor II at Nord University. She is a long time student of public sector reform in Western liberaldemocracies. Her main focus has been on how interactive forms of governance that bring public and private actors in to close collaboration has affected the capacity of the public sector to provide effective, innovative, and democratic governance. In recent years her interest has turned towards the question of what the surge of interactive governance implies for political leadership. She is the author of Interactive Political Leadership (OUP, forthcoming).
Details ISBN 0199596751 ISBN-13 9780199596751 Title Interactive Governance Author Jacob Torfing, Jon Pierre, B. Guy Peters, Eva Sørensen Format Hardcover Year 2012 Pages 284 Publisher Oxford University Press GE_Item_ID:137013765; About Us
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