Lynda Cheshire, Vaughan Higgins, Geoffrey Lawrence

• 1. Introduction: Governing the Rural Part I Managing New Forms of Governance 2. Trust and Control in Farmer–Government Partnerships: a Dutch Case Study 3. Delineations of Private and Public: Emerging Forms of Agri-Environmental Governance in Central and Eastern Europe 4. Governance and Innovations in the Nordic Periphery 5. Governing Rural Landscapes and Environments: the Strategic Role of Local Community and Global Corporate Partnerships 6. Initiating Network Governance Through Competition: Experiences from Eighteen German Regions 7. Reflexive Agency and Multi-Level Governance: Mediating Integrated Rural Development in Hungary Part II Contesting Government Strategies: State Policy and Local Agency 8. Neo-Liberalism, Neo-Mercantilism and Multifunctionality: Contested Political Discourses in European Post-Fordist Rural Governance 9. Transformation and Representation in Barangay Sibalew, The Philippines 10. Governance, Participation and Empowerment: a Non-Prescriptive Approach 11. Contested Forest: Logging the Main River Watershed in Western Newfoundland, Canada 12. Contesting Competition: Governance and Farmer Resistance in Australia 13. Individualism, Cooperation and Conservation in Scottish Farming Communities Part III Prospects for Democratic Governance 14. Leadership in Place: Elites, Institutions, and Agency in British Rural Community Governance 15. Democratising Governance in Australia’s Regions: the Value of Regional Networks 16. Legitimacy, Deliberative Arenas and the New Rural Governance 17. Governing Bottom-Up in Rural Development: the Legitimacy Dilemma 18. Are Shadows Dark? Governance, Informal Institutions, and Corruption in Rural India Conclusion 19. Rural Governance and Power Relations: Theorising the Complexity of State-Citizen Interactions

Lynda Cheshire, Vaughan Higgins, Geoffrey Lawrence

• 1. Introduction: Governing the Rural Part I Managing New Forms of Governance 2. Trust and Control in Farmer–Government Partnerships: a Dutch Case Study 3. Delineations of Private and Public: Emerging Forms of Agri-Environmental Governance in Central and Eastern Europe 4. Governance and Innovations in the Nordic Periphery 5. Governing Rural Landscapes and Environments: the Strategic Role of Local Community and Global Corporate Partnerships 6. Initiating Network Governance Through Competition: Experiences from Eighteen German Regions 7. Reflexive Agency and Multi-Level Governance: Mediating Integrated Rural Development in Hungary Part II Contesting Government Strategies: State Policy and Local Agency 8. Neo-Liberalism, Neo-Mercantilism and Multifunctionality: Contested Political Discourses in European Post-Fordist Rural Governance 9. Transformation and Representation in Barangay Sibalew, The Philippines 10. Governance, Participation and Empowerment: a Non-Prescriptive Approach 11. Contested Forest: Logging the Main River Watershed in Western Newfoundland, Canada 12. Contesting Competition: Governance and Farmer Resistance in Australia 13. Individualism, Cooperation and Conservation in Scottish Farming Communities Part III Prospects for Democratic Governance 14. Leadership in Place: Elites, Institutions, and Agency in British Rural Community Governance 15. Democratising Governance in Australia’s Regions: the Value of Regional Networks 16. Legitimacy, Deliberative Arenas and the New Rural Governance 17. Governing Bottom-Up in Rural Development: the Legitimacy Dilemma 18. Are Shadows Dark? Governance, Informal Institutions, and Corruption in Rural India Conclusion 19. Rural Governance and Power Relations: Theorising the Complexity of State-Citizen Interactions

Lynda Cheshire, Vaughan Higgins, Geoffrey Lawrence

• 1. Introduction: Governing the Rural Part I Managing New Forms of Governance 2. Trust and Control in Farmer–Government Partnerships: a Dutch Case Study 3. Delineations of Private and Public: Emerging Forms of Agri-Environmental Governance in Central and Eastern Europe 4. Governance and Innovations in the Nordic Periphery 5. Governing Rural Landscapes and Environments: the Strategic Role of Local Community and Global Corporate Partnerships 6. Initiating Network Governance Through Competition: Experiences from Eighteen German Regions 7. Reflexive Agency and Multi-Level Governance: Mediating Integrated Rural Development in Hungary Part II Contesting Government Strategies: State Policy and Local Agency 8. Neo-Liberalism, Neo-Mercantilism and Multifunctionality: Contested Political Discourses in European Post-Fordist Rural Governance 9. Transformation and Representation in Barangay Sibalew, The Philippines 10. Governance, Participation and Empowerment: a Non-Prescriptive Approach 11. Contested Forest: Logging the Main River Watershed in Western Newfoundland, Canada 12. Contesting Competition: Governance and Farmer Resistance in Australia 13. Individualism, Cooperation and Conservation in Scottish Farming Communities Part III Prospects for Democratic Governance 14. Leadership in Place: Elites, Institutions, and Agency in British Rural Community Governance 15. Democratising Governance in Australia’s Regions: the Value of Regional Networks 16. Legitimacy, Deliberative Arenas and the New Rural Governance 17. Governing Bottom-Up in Rural Development: the Legitimacy Dilemma 18. Are Shadows Dark? Governance, Informal Institutions, and Corruption in Rural India Conclusion 19. Rural Governance and Power Relations: Theorising the Complexity of State-Citizen Interactions