This text chronicles the reaction against the 1980s tendency for governments to opt out and leave social change to market forces, and the return of some West European governments to an interaction with concerned sections of society to cope with difficult problems and create new opportunites. It explores recent ventures in public-private interactions, in terms of different interactive arrangements, such as co-production, co-regulation, co-allocation or co-management. In explaining these forms of interaction in terms of coping with the dynamics, complexities and diversity of modern society, it delineates a theory of social-political governance. The 17 chapters provide empirical examples from eight West European countries, as well as theoretical formulations, which explain these recent forms of governance and provide challenging prospects for modern public management. This text is suitable for students and academics in political science, organization theory, public administration and management, as well as professional in politics and public administration.
Social-Political Governance - Jan Kooiman Introduction PART ONE: CONCEPTUALIZATIONS Governing Failures and the Problem of Governability - Renate Mayntz Some Comments on a Theoretical Paradigm Modes of Governance - Andrew Dunsire Governance and Governability - Jan Kooiman Using Complexity, Dynamics and Diversity PART TWO: PREDICAMENTS Lost Opportunity - Fr[ac]ed[ac]eric Royall The Case of Labour Market Management in the Republic of Ireland Public Policy Planning and the Problem of Governance - Kirsti Stenvall The Question of Education in Finland Women's Emancipation as a Question of Governance - Marijke Prins Actors, Institutions and the Room for Manoeuvre PART THREE: EXPERIENCES The Governance of Data Protection - Charles Raab Environmental Regulation of Business - Martijn van Vliet Options and Constraints for Communicative Governance Public-Private Partnership - Vincent Kouwenhoven A Model for the Management of Public-Private Cooperation Dynamics and Room for Manoeuvre in Governance - Mich[gr]ele Breuillard The Channel Tunnel Decision in France and Britain Governance between Legitimacy and Efficiency - Geert Bouckaert Citizen Participation in the Belgian Fire Services Governance in Interaction - Herman Aquina and Hans Bekke Public Tasks and Private Organisations PART FOUR: PROSPECTS FOR REFORM Public Management; from Imitation to Innovation - Les Metcalfe Complexity, Governance and Dynamics - Walter Kickert Conceptual Explorations of Public Network Management Governance and the Problem of Representation in Public Administration - Ky[um]osti Pekonen The Case of Finland Modes of Governance and Administrative Change - Torben Beck J[/]orgensen PART FIVE: EVALUATIONS The Governance of Education - Roger Duclaud-Williams Britain and France Findings, Speculations and Recommendations - Jan Kooiman
