The term governance does not have a settled definition today, and it has at least three main
meanings. The first is international cooperation through nonsovereign bodies outside the …

Why do democracies give birth to bureaucracies and bureaucrats? How and why has a
seemingly undesirable and unviable organizational form weathered relentless criticism over …

In this paper we argue that the new public management has been a flawed paradigm for
public services delivery that has produced very internally efficient but externally ineffective …

This book is about political organization and organizing. It is about the role of formally
organized political institutions in contemporary democracies and the democratic …

Though numerical methods to find all the isolated solutions of nonlinear systems of
multivariate polynomials go back 30 years, it is only over the last decade that numerical …

This study carries two distinct contributions to extant literature. Theoretically, it introduces an
organizational approach to the study of public governance. Empirically, it demonstrates how …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide space for the consideration of alternatives
to the dominant conceptions of corruption and its measurement. Design/methodology …

This symposium opens up new critical insights and analytical perspectives into the
relationships between power, politics, materiality and urban engineering. In so doing it …

Almost half a century ago, the political scientist Philippe Schmitter asked whether Western
liberal democracies were still in the age of corporatism (Schmitter, 1974; see also Lembruch …

The most popular measure of corruption, Transparency International's corruption perception
index (CPI), is a flawed instrument. Capable only of calculating proxies of corruption, the …