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Informationen zum Autor B. Guy Peters earned his PhD at Michigan State University and has four honorary doctorates from European universities. He is the author or editor of over 70 books in comparative politics, public administration and public policy. He was the founding co-editor of Governance and the European Political Science Review and is the founding president of the International Public Policy Association. Jon Pierre received his PhD from the University of Lund in 1986. He is the author or editor of more than 30 books and numerous journal articles. He is a former co-editor of Governance, and former associate editor of the European Political Science Review and the Urban Affairs Review. His research is focused on public administration, governance, and urban politics. Klappentext Proposes a new, advanced theory of governance, emphasizing the interactions of the state with other actors. Zusammenfassung B. Guy Peters and Jon Pierre propose a new framework for the comparative analysis of governance! and apply this framework to a typology of governance arrangements and national styles of governing. This book will advance reader knowledge about governance failure and how forms of governance may change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The governance problem; 2. The theory of governance; 3. Decision-making: the essence of governing; 4. Governance and comparative politics; 5. The institutional politics of intergovernmental relationships; 6. Implementation, administration and governance; 7. Governance failure, functional failure and state failure; 8. The change of governance and the governance of change; 9. Conclusions: governance, functionalism and comparative politics; References; Index.
