Levi-Faur, D: Oxford Handbook of Governance

John Braithwaite: Forward; PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1 David Levi-Faur: From Big Government to Big Governance?; 2 B. Guy Peters: Governance as a Political Theory; 3 Rod Rhodes: Waves of Governance; 4 Laurence Lynn: The Many Faces of Governance: Adaptation? Transformation? Both? Neither?; 5 Orly Lobel: New Governance as Regulatory Governance; 6 Peer Zumbansen: Governance: An Interdisciplinary Perspective; PART II: Theoretical Lenses; 7 Jacob Torfing: Governance Networks; 8 B. Guy Peters: Information and Governing: Cybernetic Models of Governance; 9 Volker Schneider: Governance and Complexity; 10 Bo Rothstein: Good Governance; 11 Fabrizio Gilardi and Claudio Radaelli: Governance and Learning; 12 Charles Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin: Experimentalist Governance,; PART III: GOVERNANCE AND THE REFORM OF THE STATE; 13 Jon Pierre: Governance and Institutional Flexibility; 14 Erik Hans Klijn: New Public Management and Governance: a Comparison; 15 Eva Sorensen: Governance and Innovation in the Public Sector; 16 Niamh Hardiman: Governance and State Structures; 17 Amos Zehavi: New governance and policy instruments: Are Governments Going 'Soft'?; 18 Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid: Governance & Administrative Reforms; 19 Matthew Flinders: Governance and Patronage; 20 Felicity Matthews: Governance and State Capacity; 21 Erik Hans Klijn, Arwin van Buuren, and Jurian Edelenbos: The Impact of Governance; PART IV: ACTORS, STRATEGIES AND GOVERNANCE STYLES; 22 Jeremy Richardson: New Governance or Old Governance? A Policy Style Perspective; 23 Todd Beer,Tim Bartley, and Wade T. Roberts: NGOs: Between Advocacy, Service Provision and Regulation; 24 Diane Stone: Actors of Knowledge; PART V: ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE; 25 Frans Van Waarden: The Governance of Markets: On Generating Trust in Transactions; 26 Graham Wilson: Governance after the Crisis; 27 Dieter Plehwe: Modes of Economic Governance: The Dynamics of Governance at the National and Firm Level; 28 Ellen E. Meade: The Governance of Central

David Levi-Faur is a founding editor of the journal Regulation & Governance. He is based at the Department of Political Science and the Federmann School of Public Policy and Government at the Hebrew University. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Kolleg-Forschergruppe The Transformative Power of Europe the Free University of Berlin.

Governance is now the cutting edge focus of research in political science. This splendid collection of new essays by prominent scholars summarize the existing literature and advance fruitful lines of inquiry into governance at and between scales of political activity. Peter M. Haas, Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst