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List of Tables p. viii
Acknowledgements p. ix
Introduction: Exploring Governance p. 1
Defining the scope of governance theory p. 3
Explaining the rise of governance theory p. 7
A cross-disciplinary tour of governance p. 10
Governance in Public Administration and Political Science p. 16
Challenge to the discipline of politics and public administration p. 18
Making governance work: five theoretical threads p. 26
Network management theory p. 27
Theories of delegation p. 32
Social interpretive theories p. 36
The bounded rationality school p. 37
Cultural institutional theory p. 41
Governance debates in political science and public administration p. 46
Governance without government? p. 46
The nature of governance failure p. 48
The challenge of democracy and accountability p. 49
Concluding comment p. 51
Governance and the New Institutional Economics p. 53
The challenge of new institutional economics p. 54
Intellectual domain of the NIE and the study of governance p. 57
Williamson and transaction cost economics: firm-level governance p. 58
Principal-agent theory p. 60
A rules-based conception of governance: North p. 63
Ostrom: common-pool resources p. 67
The limits to NIE's understanding of governance p. 69
Conclusions p. 72
Governance and International Relations p. 76
A governance turn? p. 77
The institutions and structures of global governance p. 82
Understanding of power relationships p. 86
State power through global governance p. 86
Fairness of the global architecture of governance p. 90
The hegemony of neoliberalism p. 92
Main themes for debate: global democracy or anarchy? p. 93
Conceptual debates unresolved p. 93
Normative debates: world order and democracy p. 94
Governance in Development Studies p. 97
Context and meaning p. 98
Major epistemological developments p. 98
'Good' governance p. 102
Consensus or not? Major tensions within 'good' governance p. 108
Governance and aid p. 109
Governance and democratisation p. 111
Governance and the state p. 115
Governance and power p. 117
Governance in Socio-Legal Studies p. 120
Intellectual domain of socio-legal inquiry p. 122
What is the law? p. 122
Where is the law? p. 126
Is there any chronology to the emergence of the law? p. 129
The socio-legal response to 'good governance' p. 131
Law and power p. 134
Foucault's key propositions on 'governance', power and the law p. 135
The individual as subject: strategies of self-regulation p. 137
Analytical tools for governance p. 141
Corporate Governance (with Damian Tobin) p. 144
Economistic theories of corporate governance p. 145
Agency theory p. 147
Transaction costs theories p. 149
Recommendations for corporate governance: clear principles, unclear results p. 149
Resource-based explanation of corporate governance p. 153
Comparative governance systems p. 156
The legal explanation p. 158
The political explanation p. 159
A historical perspective p. 160
Convergence? p. 162
Conclusions p. 163
Participatory Governance p. 165
The meaning of participatory governance: diversity in theory and practice p. 167
State or civil society: where does participatory governance begin? p. 173
Citizenship versus community engagement p. 177
Janus-faced power: the normative and the empirical in participatory governance p. 179
Participatory governance and effectiveness p. 184
Environmental Governance p. 191
Shifts in values and epistemological developments p. 192
The environmental governance discourse: multi-disciplinary influences p. 195
Global environment, global politics: global environmental governance p. 195
Institutional responses to the environment as a collective action problem p. 200
A tense environment: whose governance is it? p. 206
Power and environmental governance p. 208
The effectiveness of environmental governance p. 211
Governance: From Theory to Practice p. 214
Advances stemming from a multi-disciplinary approach p. 216
Searching for a governance solution: some design principles p. 226
Governance solutions may be clumsy p. 226
The limits to mainstream approaches to governance audit p. 227
The prospects for institutional design p. 229
Cognitive, social and motivational filters: towards a heuristic p. 231
Combining realism and normative principles in approaching governance p. 237
Governance and politics p. 237
Normative principles, democracy and governance p. 241
References p. 248
Index p. 270