• Theoretical framework.- Research approach.- Strategic policy making: Four soil protection cases.- Street level policy-making: Community policing.- Possibilities and limitations of metagovernance as public management.- Practical implications: Increasing the metagovernance capacity.- Conclusions.- Further research questions.- Summary.- Epilogue.

From the reviews: "Louis Meuleman's doctoral thesis, Public Management and the Metagovernance of Hierarchies, Networks and Markets. The Feasibility of Designing and Managing Governance Style Combinations clearly is an effort to comprehensively understand the 'why' and 'how' of governance mixtures from the standpoint of public managers. ... The book is clearly and thoroughly argued and, as a whole, succeeds in answering the research questions formulated at the outset ... . Certainly, this book is a very useful contribution ... for scholars as well as practitioners." (Judith van der Veer, Acta Politica, Vol. 44 (4), 2009)

• Theoretical framework.- Research approach.- Strategic policy making: Four soil protection cases.- Street level policy-making: Community policing.- Possibilities and limitations of metagovernance as public management.- Practical implications: Increasing the metagovernance capacity.- Conclusions.- Further research questions.- Summary.- Epilogue.

From the reviews: "Louis Meuleman's doctoral thesis, Public Management and the Metagovernance of Hierarchies, Networks and Markets. The Feasibility of Designing and Managing Governance Style Combinations clearly is an effort to comprehensively understand the 'why' and 'how' of governance mixtures from the standpoint of public managers. ... The book is clearly and thoroughly argued and, as a whole, succeeds in answering the research questions formulated at the outset ... . Certainly, this book is a very useful contribution ... for scholars as well as practitioners." (Judith van der Veer, Acta Politica, Vol. 44 (4), 2009)

• Theoretical framework.- Research approach.- Strategic policy making: Four soil protection cases.- Street level policy-making: Community policing.- Possibilities and limitations of metagovernance as public management.- Practical implications: Increasing the metagovernance capacity.- Conclusions.- Further research questions.- Summary.- Epilogue.

From the reviews: "Louis Meuleman's doctoral thesis, Public Management and the Metagovernance of Hierarchies, Networks and Markets. The Feasibility of Designing and Managing Governance Style Combinations clearly is an effort to comprehensively understand the 'why' and 'how' of governance mixtures from the standpoint of public managers. ... The book is clearly and thoroughly argued and, as a whole, succeeds in answering the research questions formulated at the outset ... . Certainly, this book is a very useful contribution ... for scholars as well as practitioners." (Judith van der Veer, Acta Politica, Vol. 44 (4), 2009)