Public Governance

Professor Mark Bevir is a member of the Department of Political Science at University of California, Berkeley. He was born in London and educated at the University of Exeter, U.K., where he got a BA (1st Class), and the University of Oxford, UK where he was awarded a DPhil. Before moving to Berkeley, he worked at the University of Madras, India, and University of Newcastle, UK. He has held visiting positions in Australia, Finland, France, U.K., and the U.S. Currently he is co-convener of the Interpretive Political Science specialist group of the Political Studies Association and President of the Society for the Philosophy of History.

• VOLUME ONE: THEORIES OF GOVERNANCEGENERALThe New Governance - R A W RhodesGoverning without GovernmentGlobalization and Public Administration - A FarazmandRATIONAL CHOICEThe Tragedy of the Commons - Garrett HardinTransaction-Cost Economics - O WilliamsonThe Governance of Contractural RelationsUnderstanding Urban Governance - K Dowding, P Dunleavy, D King, H Margetts and Y RydinThe Contribution of Rational ChoiceINSTITUTIONALISMThe New Institutionalism - J March and J OlsonOrganisational Factors in Political LifeCo-Ordination in Hierarchies and Networks - F ScharpfUnderstanding NHS Reform - I GreenerThe Policy-Transfer, Social Learning and Path-Dependency PerspectivesTHE REGULATION APPROACHThe Regulation Approach - B JessopImplications for Political TheoryGovernance and Meta-Governance - B JessopOn Reflexivity, Requisite Variety and Requisite IronyNeoliberalizing Space - J Peck and J TickellSYSTEMS THEORYThe Autopoiesis of Administrative Systems - M Brans and S RossbachNiklas Luhmann on Public Administration and Public PolicySelf-Governance as a Mode of Societal Governance - J Kooiman and M van VlietSocietal Governance - J KooimanLevels, Modes and Orders of Political InteractionINTERPRETIVE THEORIESGovernance and Interpretation - Mark BevirWhat are the Implications of Postfoundationalism?A Decentered Theory of Governance - Mark BevirGoverning ′Advanced′ Liberal Democracies - Nikolas RoseVOLUME TWO: PUBLIC SECTOR REFORMGENERALOverload - A KingProblems of Governing in the 1980sReshaping the State - V WrightThe Implications for Public AdministrationThe Myth of the Bureaucratic Paradigm - L E LynnWhat Traditional Public Administration Really Stood ForNEOLIBERALISM: NPMA Public Management for all Seasons - Christopher HoodThe Paradoxes of Administrative Reform - Vincent WrightGoing Privately - D Grimshaw, S Vincent and H WillmottPartnership and Outsourcing in UK Public ServicesAdministrative Leadership, Neo-Managerialism and the Public Management Movement - Larry D TerryThe Global Revolution in Public Management - D KettlDriving Themes, Missing LinksNETWORKSThe Networked Polity - Chris AnsellRegional Development in Western EuropeTreating Networks Seriously - L O′ToolePractical and Research-Based Agendas in Public AdministrationThe Dynamics of Multi-Organizational Partnerships - Vivien Lowndes and Chris SkelcherAn Analysis of Changing Modes of GovernancePublic-Private Partnerships - T BovairdFrom Contested Concepts to Prevalent PracticeThe Open-Method as a New Mode of Governance - D Hodson and I MaherThe Case of Soft Economic Policy Co-OrdinationGovernance at Ground Level - Mark Considine and J M LewisThe Frontline Bureaucrat in the Age of Markets and NetworksDEVELOPMENTGovernance, Democracy and Development in the Third World - A LeftwichDecentralization, Local Governance and ′Recentralization′ in Africa - J S WunschAid Dependence and the Quality of Governance - S KnackCross-Country Empirical TestsVOLUME THREE: PUBLIC POLICYGENERALThe Science of Muddling Through - C LindblomSTEERING AND SERVINGCommunity-Owned Government - D Osborne and T GaeblerEmpowering Rather Than ServingPoliticians and Bureaucrats in the Process of Governing - B G PetersThe Challenge of Collaborative Governance - Chris HuxhamThe New Public Service - R B Denhardt and J V DenhardtServing Rather Than SteeringNETWORK MANAGEMENTManaging in Network Settings - R Agranoff and M McGuireManaging Public-Private Partnerships - E-H Klijn and G TeismanFrom Marketization to Diplomacy - R RhodesIt′s the Mix that MattersAUDIT AND REGULATIONFrom the Positive to the Regulatory State - G MajoneCauses and Consequences of Changes on the Mode of GovernanceRegulation of Government - C Hood, O James and C ScottHas it Increased, Is it Increasing, Should it Be Diminished?Neoliberalizing Nature? - K BakkerMarket Environmentalism in Water Supply in England and WalesPolicy LearningEvaluation, Policy Learning and Evidence-Based Policy Making - I SandersonSocial Benchmarking, Policy Making and the New Governance in the EU - C de la Porte, P Poched and G RoomPersistence of National Policy Styles - F van WaardenA Study of Their Institutional FoundationsDIALOGUE AND DELIBERATIONPolicy Analysis and Planning - J DryzekFrom Science to ArgumentBeyond Dialogue to Transformative Learning - J ForesterHow Deliberative Rituals Encourage Political Judgement in Community Planning ProcessesThe Everyday Maker - H Bang and E SørensenA New Challenge to Democratic GovernanceVOLUME FOUR: DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCEGENERALGovernance in a Partially Globalized World - R KeohaneGOOD GOVERNANCE′Good Governance′ - M DoornbosThe Rise and Decline of a Policy MetaphorGovernance, the World Bank and Liberal Theory - D Williams and T YoungGood Enough Governance - M S GrindlePoverty Reduction and Reform in Developing CountriesPUBLIC SERVICEThe Political Theory of Reinvention - L deLeon and R DenhardtThe Diminishing Publicness of Public Service under the Current Mode of Governance - M HaqueFrom Responsiveness to Collaboration - E VigodaGovernance, Citizens and the Next Generation of Public AdministrationREPRESENTATION AND RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENTNonmajoritarian Institutions and the Limits of Democratic Governance - G MajoneA Political Transaction-Cost ApproachThe End of the Line? - Mark ConsidineAccountable Governance in the Age of Networks, Partnerships and Joined-Up ServicesPublic and Private Partnerships - M MinowAccounting for the New ReligionLegitimizing the EU - C Lord and D BeethamIs There a ′Post-Parliamentary Basis for its LegitimationIn Defence of the Democratic Deficit - Andrew MoravcsikReassessing Legitimacy in the European UnionSOCIAL INCLUSIONBowling Alone - R PutnamAmerica′s Declining Social CapitalRediscovering Civil Society - K ArmstrongThe European Union and the White Paper on GovernanceTackling Social Exclusion in the European Union? - M GeddesThe Limits to the New Orthodoxy of Local PartnershipRADICAL DEMOCRACY Deepening Democracy - A Fung and E O WrightInnovations in Empowered Participatory GovernanceDemocratic Governance - Mark BevirSystems and Radical PerspectivesOther Domains of Democratic Theory - D SlaterSpace, Power and the Politics of Democratization