The Oxford Handbook of Governance

The Oxford Handbook of Governance presents an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the social science literature on governance. The volume presents the core concepts and knowledge that have evolved in the study of governance in different levels and arenas of politics and policymaking. In doing so it establishes itself as the essential point of reference for all those studying politics, society, and economics from a governance perspective. The volume comprises fifty-two chapters from leaders in the field. The chapters are organized in nine sections dealing with topics that include governance as the reform of the state, democratic governance, European governance, and global governance.

David Levi-Faur is a founding editor of the journal Regulation & Governance. He is based at the Department of Political Science and the Federmann School of Public Policy and Government at the Hebrew University. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe" the Free University of Berlin.

Forward, John Braithwaite
PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. From "Big Government" to "Big Governance?", David Levi-Faur
2. Governance as a Political Theory, B. Guy Peters
3. Waves of Governance, Rod Rhodes
4. The Many Faces of Governance: Adaptation? Transformation? Both? Neither?, Laurence Lynn
5. New Governance as Regulatory Governance, Orly Lobel
6. Governance: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Peer Zumbansen
PART II: Theoretical Lenses
7. Governance Networks, Jacob Torfing
8. Information and Governing: Cybernetic Models of Governance, B. Guy Peters
9. Governance and Complexity, Volker Schneider
10. Good Governance, Bo Rothstein
11. Governance and Learning, Fabrizio Gilardi and Claudio Radaelli
12. Experimentalist Governance,, Charles Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin
PART III: GOVERNANCE AND THE REFORM OF THE STATE
13. Governance and Institutional Flexibility, Jon Pierre
14. New Public Management and Governance: a Comparison, Erik Hans Klijn
15. Governance and Innovation in the Public Sector, Eva Sorensen
16. Governance and State Structures, Niamh Hardiman
17. New governance and policy instruments: Are Governments Going 'Soft'?, Amos Zehavi
18. Governance & Administrative Reforms, Tom Christensen and Per Laegreid
19. Governance and Patronage, Matthew Flinders
20. Governance and State Capacity, Felicity Matthews
21. The Impact of Governance, Erik Hans Klijn, Arwin van Buuren, and Jurian Edelenbos
PART IV: ACTORS, STRATEGIES AND GOVERNANCE STYLES
22. New Governance or Old Governance? A Policy Style Perspective, Jeremy Richardson
23. NGOs: Between Advocacy, Service Provision and Regulation, Todd Beer,Tim Bartley, and Wade T. Roberts
24. Actors of Knowledge, Diane Stone
PART V: ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE
25. The Governance of Markets: On Generating Trust in Transactions, Frans Van Waarden
26. Governance after the Crisis, Graham Wilson
27. Modes of Economic Governance: The Dynamics of Governance at the National and Firm Level, Dieter Plehwe
28. The Governance of Central Banks, Ellen E. Meade
PART VI: GOVERNANCE OF RISKS
29. Risk and Governance, Elizabeth Fisher
30. Governance of Science and Technology, Susana Borras
31. The Governance of Global Climate Change, Thomas Bernauer and Lena Schaffer
PART VII: DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE
32. Participatory Governance: From Theory to Practice, Frank Fischer
33. Modes of Democratic Governance, Amit Ron
34. The New Citizenship and Governance: Alternative Intersections, Susan Phillips
35. Collaborative Governance, Chris Ansell
36. The Democratic Quality of Collaborative Governance, Yannis Papadopoulos
37. Participatory Governance in Public Health: Choice, but no Voice, Yael Yishai
38. A Return to Governance in the Law of the Workplace, Cynthia Estlund
39. Governance and Voluntary Regulation, Colin Provost
40. E-Governance and E-Democracy: Questioning Technology-centered Categories, Eran Fisher
41. The Fifth Estate: A New Governance Challenge, William Dutton
42. The Governance of Privacy, Abraham L. Newman
PART VIII: EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE
43. The European Union - A Unique Governance Mix?, Tanja A. Borzel
44. Multi Level Governance in the European Union, Ian Bache
45. Institutional Change in European Governance: The Commission's Implementing Powers and the European Parliament, European University Institute, Adrienne Heritier and Catherine Moury
46. EU External Governance and Europeanization Beyond the EU, Frank Schimmelfennig
PART IX: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
47. Governance and Global Policy, William W. Coleman
48. Governance, International Order, and World Order, Arie Kacowicz
49. Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood, Thomas Risse
50. Governmentality in Global Governance, Alexandria Jayne Innes and Brent J. Steele
51. Global Governance as Multi Governance, Michael Zurn
52. The Challenges of Transnational Economic Governance, Kerstin Sahlin and Djelic Marie-Laure