Maarten Hajer is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Amsterdam and Director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. He is author of the celebrated The Politics of Environmental Discourse - Ecological Modernization and the Policy Process (Oxford UP, 1995).

• 1. The Authority Problem of Governance ; 2. A Framework for Analysis ; 3. Performing Authority after the Assassination of Theo Van Gogh ; 4. Contested Authority in Rebuilding Ground Zero ; 5. Authority through Deliberative Governance: the British Food Standards Agency in Action ; 6. The Paradox of Authority in a Mediatized Politics

Maarten Hajer's stories of politicians as performers enacting dramas that imbue governance with meaning open novel and exciting ways of understanding how authoritative governance is possible.

Maarten Hajer is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Amsterdam and Director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. He is author of the celebrated The Politics of Environmental Discourse - Ecological Modernization and the Policy Process (Oxford UP, 1995).

• 1. The Authority Problem of Governance ; 2. A Framework for Analysis ; 3. Performing Authority after the Assassination of Theo Van Gogh ; 4. Contested Authority in Rebuilding Ground Zero ; 5. Authority through Deliberative Governance: the British Food Standards Agency in Action ; 6. The Paradox of Authority in a Mediatized Politics

Maarten Hajer's stories of politicians as performers enacting dramas that imbue governance with meaning open novel and exciting ways of understanding how authoritative governance is possible.

Maarten Hajer is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Amsterdam and Director of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency. He is author of the celebrated The Politics of Environmental Discourse - Ecological Modernization and the Policy Process (Oxford UP, 1995).

• 1. The Authority Problem of Governance ; 2. A Framework for Analysis ; 3. Performing Authority after the Assassination of Theo Van Gogh ; 4. Contested Authority in Rebuilding Ground Zero ; 5. Authority through Deliberative Governance: the British Food Standards Agency in Action ; 6. The Paradox of Authority in a Mediatized Politics

Maarten Hajer's stories of politicians as performers enacting dramas that imbue governance with meaning open novel and exciting ways of understanding how authoritative governance is possible.