The paper reassesses the argument in Understanding Governance (1997). The first section
summarizes where we are now in the study of governance, reviewing briefly the key …

The term governance has been used in a variety of ways, but is most often presented as an
attempt to improve co-ordination between relatively dependent actors for the purpose of …

The world is in the grip of a crisis that stands unprecedented in living memory. The COVID-
19 pandemic is urgent, global in scale, and massive in impacts. Following Harold D …

Having started out as a new and alternative way of thinking about policy making and
governing more broadly, governance is now established as a dominant paradigm in …

More than a decade has passed since the publication of Christopher Hood's influential piece
that codified the nature of the New Public Management (NPM)(Hood 1991). At that time it …

Institutional theory plays a significant role in contemporary political science. As in the
previous editions, the new fourth edition provides an overview of the major institutional …

In recent years a set of radical new approaches to public policy has been develo**. These
approaches, drawing on discursive analysis and participatory deliberative practices, have …

The Italian version of this paper can be found at http://ssrn. com/abstract= 2731132 The core
technology of Bitcoin, the blockchain, has recently emerged as a disruptive innovation with a …

Governance Networks in the Public Sector presents a comprehensive study of governance
networks and the management of complexities in network settings. Public, private and non …