Governance as Social and Political CommunicationHenrik Paul Bang Manchester University Press, 2003 - 271 pages Governance is among the most used of new ideas in the social sciences, most notably in the fields of political science, public administration, sociology, social and political theory. As ever, debates within disciplines rarely transcend disciplinary boundaries. This volume, newly available in paperback, brings together authors from these fields to elaborate on the development of governance analysis in new conceptions of political and democratic communication. It not only seeks to identify, describe and evaluate the contribution of each discipline to a theory of communicative governance, but also lays the foundation of a multidisciplinary framework for studying the mediation in communicative governance of societal concerns for effectiveness, order and participation.The book is theoretical and comparative, drawing on authors and research in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the US. It adopts an anti-foundational approach to deconstruct the essentialist discourses endemic in each discipline and the disciplinary traditions of each country. Notions such as steering and control in public administration, identities and domination in sociology, and the community and self in social and political theory are analysed in depth. The book will demonstrate clearly how the distinctive traditions of each discipline lead them to construct overlapping, loosely coupled, and sometimes incommensurable ideas about the institutions, politics and policies of governance. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Governance as political communication Henrik P Bang | 7 |
New challenges to governance theory Renate Mayntz | 27 |
from bureaucracy | 61 |
Activation in governance Jan Kooiman | 79 |
Sociological analyses of metagovernance | 99 |
perspectives David L Swartz | 140 |
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action action potential activity approach argues Bang beliefs Bevir Bourdieu Cambridge chapter citizens civil society claim co-operation co-ordination complexity concept concerns contingent critical culture governance demo-elitism democracy democratic discourse economic effect elite autonomy emphasis Etzioni-Halevy everyday makers example failure forms Foucault global globalisation governance theory governing interactions groups Habermas heterarchy hierarchies high modern human idea identities individuals institutionalists interests Kooiman labour lay actors leadership liberal democracy London Mayntz means meta-governance mobilisation modes narrative neo-liberal non-elites norms organisations participation perspective Pierre Bourdieu pluralism policy networks political authorities political community political field political science political sociology political theory practices problem processes rational choice rational choice theory Rawls recognise reflexive reform regime relations Rhodes role rule Scharpf Science Journal second-order sector social capital social movements social science social-political sociology steering strategies structure theoretical theorists tion traditions uncoupling University Press
References to this book
Netværksstyring: fra government til governance Eva Sørensen,Jacob Torfing No preview available - 2005 |