Handbook on Measuring Governance

Edited by Peter Triantafillou, Professor of Public Administration and Politics, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark and Jenny M. Lewis, Professor of Public Policy, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Contents:Introduction to the Handbook on Measuring Governance 1Peter Triantafillou and Jenny M. LewisPART I HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF MEASURING GOVERNANCE1 State formation and statistics 15Cosmo Howard2 Quantification and global governance 31Isabel Rocha de Siqueira3 New Public Management, performance measurement, and measuringfor governance 45Jenny M. Lewis4 The constitutive effects of measuring governance 62Peter Dahler-LarsenPART II THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO MEASURING GOVERNANCE5 Theoretical approaches to measuring governance: public administration 80Sorin Dan6 Measuring governance: a political science perspective 96B. Guy Peters7 The sociology of measurement 111Radhika Gorur8 Governmentality and the measuring of governance 125Peter TriantafillouPART III METHODS FOR MEASURING GOVERNANCE9 Approaches and methods for measuring governance: comparing majorsupranational institutions 138Andrea Bonomi Savignon, Lorenzo Costumato and Fabiana Scalabrini10 Measuring the quality of collaborative governance processes 156Joop Koppenjan11 A framework for measuring the effects of policy processes on healthsystem strengthening 172Fabiana da Cunha Saddi, Stephen Peckham, Peter Lloyd-Sherlock andGermano Araujo Coelho12 Measuring micro-foundations of governance: a behavioral perspective 187Sjors Overman, Emma Ropes and Wouter Vandenabeele13 Criteria-based measurement of collaborative innovation and its impacton public problem solving and value creation 204Jacob Torfing, Andreas Hagedorn Krogh and Anders Ejrnæs14 Using collaborative performance summits to help both researchers andgovernance actors make sense of governance measures 216Scott DouglasPART IV FIELDS OF MEASURING GOVERNANCE15 Measuring active labour market polices 230Niklas Andreas Andersen, Flemming Larsen and Dorte Caswell16 Governance in public health care: measurement (in)completeness 244Margit Malmmose17 Made to measure: how central banks deliver performances of theirworth and why unconventional monetary policy is reversing the burdenof proof 260Timo Walter18 We treasure what we measure: global development cooperation and theSustainable Development Goals 274Katja Freistein19 Measuring democracy: capturing waves of democratization and autocratization 289Marianne KneuerIndex

‘Measurement and governance are related in sometimes surprising ways. This timely Handbook, featuring both established and emerging scholars from across the globe, provides an elegant overview of historical developments, theoretical approaches, methods of measurement and fields of application. Thought-provoking and important for our understanding of how governance relates to, but also shapes, how we measure and understand the politico-administrative world.’