Eva Sørensen is a Professor in the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark. Peter Triantafillou is Associate Professor in the Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark.

• Chapter 1 The Politics of Self-Governance: An Introduction, Eva Sørensen, Peter Triantafillou; Part 1 Scientific Reflections on Governance; Chapter 2 A Macro Level Perspective on Governance of the Self and Others, Anders Esmark, Peter Triantafillou; Chapter 3 The Politics of Self-Governance in Meso Level Theories, Eva Sørensen, Jacob Torfing; Chapter 4 Self-Governance in Micro Level Theory, Lina Eriksson; Part 2 Governance in Action; Chapter 5 The Institutional Design of Self-Governance: Insights from Public-Private Part nerships, Keith Baker, Jonathan B. Justice, Chris Skelcher; Chapter 6 Citizen and City: Institutional Reform and Self-Governance in Los Angeles, Juliet Musso, Christopher Weare; Chapter 7 Paradoxes of the Self: Self-Owning Universities in a Society of Control, Jakob Williams Ørberg, Susan Wright; Chapter 8 Self-Governance and the Disappearance of the Human Body, Herbert Gottweis; Chapter 9 Public Administration in Teams: Self-Governing Civil Servants, Birgitte Poulsen; Chapter 10 Governing the Responsible Prisoner: A Comparative Analysis, Mary Bosworth; Chapter 11 Self-Governance through the Committees in the Open Method of Co-ordination: The Cases of Employment and Social Inclusion, Caroline de la Porte, David Natali, Philippe Pochet; Chapter 12 Conclusion, Eva Sørensen, Peter Triantafillou;

'The Politics of Self-Governance represents a significant advance in our understanding current patterns of governing. The authors in this book address all those questions both theoretically and empirically, and present numerous challenges to the conventional wisdom on the public sector and its relationships with civil society.' B. Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh, USA and Zeppelin University, Germany