Knowing Governance The Epistemic Construction of Political Order

Knowing Governance sets out to understand governance through the design and making of its models and instruments. What kinds of knowledge do they require and reproduce? How are new understandings of governance produced in practice, by scientists and policy makers and by the publics with whom they engage? How does politics work through the production of ideas and information that both describe and prescribe how governing is done?

This book outlines and explores a new approach to the study of governance at the intersection of governmentality studies, interpretive policy studies and science and technology studies. Each chapter presents an empirically-grounded case study of how particular accounts of governing are worked out, and how new realities of governance emerge in the course of making it knowable. Each introduces and applies a key concept from science and technology studies, setting out a variety of ways of making knowledge about governance and its constituent politics.

Jan-Peter Voß is Junior Professor of the Sociology of Politics and heads the Innovation in Governance Research Group in the Department of Sociology at the Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. He is author of Designs on Governance (2007) and co-editor of Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development (2006).
 
Richard Freeman is Professor of Social Science and Public Policy at the University of Edinburgh, UK, where he is also Co-Director of the Academy of Government. He is co-editor of Knowledge in Policy: Embodied, Inscribed, Enacted (2014), and of the series Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy.

1. Introduction: Knowing Governance; Jan-Peter Voß; Richard Freeman
PART I: KNOWING THE BODY POLITIC: COLLECTIVE AGENCY
2. Modeling The State: An Actor-Network Approach; Jan-Hendrik Passoth; Nicholas Rowland
3. Co-Producing European Integration: Research, Policy And Welfare Activation; Thomas Pfister
4. Experimenting With Global Governance: Learning Lessons In The Contact Group On Piracy; Christian Bueger
PART II: KNOWING INSTRUMENTS: MODES OF GOVERNING
5. Cultivating 'Nudge': Behavioural Governance In The UK; Holger Straßheim; Rebecca Korinek
6. Realizing Instruments: Performativity In Emissions Trading And Citizen Panels; Jan-Peter Voß
7. Translating Participation: Scenario Workshops And Citizens' Juries Across Situations And Contexts; Linda Soneryd; Nina Amelung
PART III: MATERIAL KNOWING: DOCUMENTS AND BODIES
8. Fact-Making In Permit Markets: Document Networks As Infrastructures Of Emissions Trading; Arno Simons
9. Training Participants: Building A Community Of Practice To Negotiate Sustainability; Sonja Van Der Arend; Jelle Behagel
PART IV: BOUNDARIES OF KNOWING: SCIENCE AND POLITICS
10. Boundary-Making In The International Organisation: Public Engagement Expertise At The OECD; Brice Laurent
11. Black-Boxing Sustainable Development: Environmental Impact Assessment On The River Uruguay; Nicolas Baya-Laffite
PART V: KNOWING REFLEXIVELY: DOING KNOWLEDGE POLITICS
12. Knowing Doing Governing: Realising Heterodyne Democracies; Andrew Stirling