▪ Abstract This chapter reviews the literature relevant to environmental governance in four
domains of scholarship: globalization, decentralization, market and individual incentives …

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 …

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 …

Despite numerous efforts to promote and implement more integrated approaches,
coordination problems persist and impede sustainable water governance and management …

Community engagement and citizen participation have long been important themes in
liberal democratic theory, although managerial versions of liberal democracy have typically …

This paper investigates the relationship between representative democracy and governance
networks at a theoretical level. It does so by offering four conjectures and their implications …

The overall project aims to establish a dialogue between normative democratic theory and
research on policy formulation and implementation. This introductory article first notes the …

Several studies focusing on different policy sectors, in diverse national and local
environments, find broad convergence toward a policy-making style dominated by …

Although the analysis of parties and party systems has proved an enduring concern within
comparative European politics, the amount of attention that the topic has received has …

This major new text provides a uniquely broad ranging introduction to, and assessment of
the contribution of, the whole range of theoretical approaches that have been applied to the …