Leading scholars in the field of governance examine the effectiveness of the different non-institutional strategies at the disposal of modern governments in tackling issues of urban decline, public administrations, governmental regionalization, budget deficits, and global economics.

Charles F. Sabel was formerly the Ford International Professor of Social Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His publications include Learning by Monitoring (2006, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press), A Constitution of Democratic Experimentalism (with Michael C. Dorf, 2006, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press) Can We Put an End to Sweatshops? A New Democracy Form on Raising Global Labor Standards (with Archon Fung and Dara O'Rourke, 2001, Beacon Press), Worlds of Possibility (ed. with Jonathan Zeitlin, 1997, Cambridge University Press), Ireland: Local Partnershipsand Social Innovation (with the LEED Programme of the OECD, 1996), The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity (with Michael Piore, 1984, Basics Books), Work and Politics: The Division of Labor in Industry (1982, Cambridge University Press). He is Professor of Law and Social Science at Columbia Law School, a post he has held since 1995.
Jonathan Zeitlin was Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is also Directed the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy and was Founding Director of the European Union Center. He has published extensively on new forms of governance in the European Union, as well as on comparative and historical analysis of business organization, employment relations, and public policy. He is frequently invited to provide policy advice and present his research on EU governance to European institutions, national governments, think tanks, and NGOs. Among his recent books are Changing European Employment and Welfare Regimes (Routledge, 2009); The Oxford Handbook of Business History (OUP, 2007); and The Open Method of Coordination in Action (PIE-Peter Lang, 2005). He is Professor of Public Policy and Governance in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam.

• 1: Jon Pierre: Introduction: Understanding Governance


• PART I. GOVERNANCE, DEMOCRACY, AND THE STATE


• 2: Paul Hirst: Democracy and Governance


• 3: B. Guy Peters: Governance in Comparative Perspective


• 4: Rod Rhodes: Governance and the Public Administration


• 5: Gerry Stoker: Urban Political Science and the Challenge of Urban Governance


• 6: Andrew Gamble: Governing Sectors of the Economy


• 7: Jan Kooiman: Governance as a Socio-Cybernetic System


• PART II. EMERGING FORMS OF INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE


• 8: James N. Rosenau: Change, Complexity, and Governance in a Globalizing Space


• 9: Anthony Payne: Globalization and Modes of Regionalist Governance


• 10: Alberta Sbragia: The European Union as Coxswain: Governance by Steering


• 11: Jon Pierre: Conclusions: Governance Beyond State Strength