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Week 1: Stoker (1998). Governance as theory: five propositions..........................................................2
Week 1: Rhodes (2012). Waves of governance.....................................................................................7
Week 1: Steurer (2013). Disentangling governance.............................................................................11
Week 2: Innes and Steele (2012). Governmentality in global governance..........................................17
Week 2: Alexander (2002). The public interest in planning.................................................................21
Week 3: Needham (2006). Planning, law and economics. Ch. 2 & 4....................................................25
Chapter 2.........................................................................................................................................25
Chapter 4.........................................................................................................................................30
Week 3: van Bavel (2016). The invisible hand?....................................................................................34
Week 4: Edwards (2004). Civil society.................................................................................................39
Week 4: Sorensen and Torfing (2009). Making governance networks effective and democratic
through metagovernance....................................................................................................................43
Week 4: Beer, Bartley and Roberts (2012). NGO’s: between advocacy, service provision and
regulation............................................................................................................................................52
Week 5: Yandle (2003). The challenges of building successful stakeholder organizations..................57
Week 5: Richardson (2012). New governance or old governance? A policy style perspective............63
Week 5: Mintrom & Norman (2009). Policy entrepreneurship and policy change..............................67
Week 6: Fischer (2012). Participatory governance: from theory to practice.......................................73
Week 6: Emerson, Nabatchi & Balogh (2012). An integrative framework for collaborative governance
.............................................................................................................................................................79
Week 6: Seyfang and Haxeltine (2012). Growing grassroots innovations: exploring the role of
community-based initiatives in governing sustainable energy transition............................................88
Week 7: Paterson (2009). Global governance for sustainable capitalism?..........................................99
Week 7: Meadowcroft (2007). ‘Who is in charge here? Governance for Sustainable Development in a
Complex World’.................................................................................................................................105
Week 7: Wijaya, Glasbergen, Leroy and Darmastuti (2016). Governance challenges of cocoa
partnerships projects in Indonesia.....................................................................................................114
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,Week 1: Stoker (1998). Governance as theory: five
propositions
Aim of literature (abstract and intro)
Term government to refer to formal institutions of the state and their monopoly of legitimate
coercive power. Government is characterized by its ability to make decisions and its capacity to
enforce them. In particular government is understood to refer to the formal and institutional
processes.
Governance signifies a change in the meaning of government, referring to a new process of
governing.
The process of governance lead to outcomes that parallel those of the traditional institutions of
government.
Governance is ultimately concerned with creating the conditions for ordered rule and collective
action. The outputs of governance are not therefore different from those of government. It is rather
a matter of a difference in processes.
A baseline agreement that governance refers to the development of governing styles in which
boundaries between and within public and private sectors have become blurred.
Obsorne and Gaebler (1992): governance appears to be used in place of government as in
government was a difficult word to sell in a privatized market orientated society. Governance is
about reinvented form of government which is better managed. Governance for them is about the
potential for contracting, franchising and new forms of regulation. In short, it is about what others
refer to as the new public management.
Discussion of governance in this paper is structured in five propositions:
1. Governance refers to a set of institutions and actors that are drawn from but also beyond
government.
2. Governance identifies the blurring of boundaries and responsibilities for tackling social and
economic issues.
3. Governance identifies the power dependence involved in the relationship between
institutions involved in collective action.
4. Governance is about autonomous self-governing network of actors.
5. Governance recognizes the capacity to get things done which does not rest on the power of
government to command or use its authority. It sees government as able to use new tools
and techniques to steer and guide.
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,These propositions are complementary or in competition. Each proposition has associated with it a
certain dilemma or critical issue:
- There is a divorce between the complex reality of decision making associated with
governance and the normative codes used to explain and justify government. (rhetorical
use)
- The blurring or responsibilities can lead to blame avoidance or scapegoating
- Power dependence exacerbates the problem of unintended consequences for government
- The emergence of self-governing networks raises difficulties over accountability. (power)
- Even where governments operate in a flexible way to steer collective action governance
failure may occur. (“a vast and unresolvable principal-agent problem”)
Conclusion
This article has argued that a governance perspective provides an organizing framework for students
and practitioners of a broadly defined public administration.
Like all maps the governance perspective applies a simplifying lens to a complex reality. The issue is
not that it has simplified matters but whether that simplification has illuminated our understanding
and enabled us to find an appropriate path or direction (Rhodes, 1996; Gamble, 1990). If the
governance perspective is to be rejected it has to be on the basis that there is a better map or guide
rather than on the basis that it fails to provide a comprehensive or definitive account. The
governance perspective deliberately selects various trends and developments for our attention. Its
value is to be judged by how good or bad the selection has been.
Be hoped, therefore, that the governance perspective can develop in an evolutionary way to capture
the processes of adaptation, learning and experiment that are characteristic of governance.
An organizing perspective makes its theoretical contribution at a general level in providing a set of
assumptions and research questions. It provides a language in which to identify key features of a
complex reality and also to pose significant questions about that reality. Such is the claim of the
governance perspective offered in this article. It does not advocate governance. Nor does it explain
the multiple and various relationships that exist within governance.
For the governance perspective the questions it poses are as important as the answers it offers. It is
saying: the world of governing is changing in ways which mark a substantial break from the past and
that that changing world is worthy of study.
Key terms (theories & concepts)
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, - Government
- Governance
- Sovereignty
- Governance failure the need to think beyond the retooling of government to a broader
concern with the institutions and social and economic fabric beyond government. The design
challenge with respect to our public institutions becomes complex and demanding.
Summary (more in depth of the paper)
Governance refers to a complex set of institutions and actors that are drawn from but also beyond
government
First message of governance is to challenge constitutional understanding of systems of government.
In British case: Westminster model. Governance suggest that the Westminster model are limited and
misleading. The Westminster model fails to capture the complex reality of the British system. It
implies that in a unitary stat there is only one center of power. In practice there are many centers
and diverse links between many agencies of government at local, regional, national and
supranational levels. There is a complex architecture to systems of government which governance
seeks to emphasize and focus attention on.
The governance perspective also draws attention to the increased involvement of the private and
voluntary sectors in service delivery and strategic decision-making.
We must be concerned with the extent to which complex structures linking the public and private
sectors . . . actually mask responsibility and add to the problems of Citizens in understanding and
influencing the actions of their governments.
Beetham (1991) suggest that there are three dimensions to the legitimacy of political system. For
power to be fully legitimate, three conditions are required: its conformity to established rules, the
justifiability of the rules by reference to shared beliefs, and the express consent of the subordinate.
The point is that it is possible to make the rules of power more or less legitimate.
Governance recognizes the blurring of boundaries and responsibilities for tackling social and
economic issues
Governance perspective not only recognizes increased complexity in our systems of government, it
also draws to our attention a shift in responsibility, a stepping back of the state and a concern to
push responsibilities onto the private and voluntary sectors and, more broadly to citizens. At its most
abstract, governance is about a change in the long-standing balance between the state and civil
society.
Governance is connected to the concern about social capital and the social underpinnings necessary
to effective economic and political performance. The shift in responsibility finds institutional
expression in a blurring of boundaries between the public and private, which in turn finds substance
in the rise of a range of voluntary or third-sector agencies.
The governance perspective demands that these voluntary sector third-force organizations be
recognized for the scale and scope of their contribution to tackling collective concerns without
reliance on the formal resources of government.
Governance identifies the power dependence involved in the relationships between institutions
involved in collective action
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