B. Guy Peters (University of Pittsburgh), Jon Pierre

Comparative Governance

Rediscovering the Functional Dimension of Governing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781316615416
• ISBN-10: 1316615413
• Artikelnr.: 45160857

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.