Modern Governance

Social-Political Governance/Introduction/PART ONE: CONCEPTUALIZATIONS/Governing Failures and the Problem of Governability/Some Comments on a Theoretical Paradigm/Modes of Governance/Governance and Governability/Using Complexity Dynamics and Diversity/PART TWO: PREDICAMENTS/Lost Opportunity/The Case of Labour Market Management in the Republic of Ireland/Public Policy Planning and the Problem of Governance/The Question of Education in Finland/Women's Emancipation as a Question of Governance/Actors Institutions and the Room for Manoeuvre/PART THREE: EXPERIENCES/The Governance of Data Protection/Environmental Regulation of Business/Options and Constraints for Communicative Governance/Public-Private Partnership/A Model for the Management of Public-Private Cooperation/Dynamics and Room for Manoeuvre in Governance/The Channel Tunnel Decision in France and Britain/Governance between Legitimacy and Efficiency/Citizen Participation in the Belgian Fire Services/Governance in Interaction/Public Tasks and Private Organisations/PART FOUR: PROSPECTS FOR REFORM/Public Management; from Imitation to Innovation/Complexity Governance and Dynamics/Conceptual Explorations of Public Network Management/Governance and the Problem of Representation in Public Administration/The Case of Finland/Modes of Governance and Administrative Change/PART FIVE: EVALUATIONS/The Governance of Education/Britain and France/Findings Speculations and Recommendations