This Oxford Handbook will be the definitive study of governance for years to come. 'Governance' has become one of the most popular terms in contemporary political science; this Handbook explores the full range of meaning and application of the concept and its use in a number of research fields.

• Forward


• PART I: INTRODUCTION


• 1: David Levi-Faur: From "Big Government" to "Big Governance?"


• 2: B. Guy Peters: Governance as a Political Theory


• 3: Rod Rhodes: Waves of Governance


• 4: Laurence Lynn: The Many Faces of Governance: Adaptation? Transformation? Both? Neither?


• 5: Orly Lobel: New Governance as Regulatory Governance


• 6: Peer Zumbansen: Governance: An Interdisciplinary Perspective


• PART II: Theoretical Lenses


• 7: Jacob Torfing: Governance Networks


• 8: B. Guy Peters: Information and Governing: Cybernetic Models of Governance


• 9: Volker Schneider: Governance and Complexity


• 10: Bo Rothstein: Good Governance


• 11: Fabrizio Gilardi and Claudio Radaelli: Governance and Learning


• 12: Charles Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin: Experimentalist Governance,


• PART III: GOVERNANCE AND THE REFORM OF THE STATE


• 13: Jon Pierre: Governance and Institutional Flexibility


• 14: Erik Hans Klijn: New Public Management and Governance: a Comparison


• 15: Eva Sorensen: Governance and Innovation in the Public Sector


• 16: Niamh Hardiman: Governance and State Structures


• 17: Amos Zehavi: New governance and policy instruments: Are Governments Going 'Soft'?


• 18: Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid: Governance and Administrative Reforms


• 19: Matthew Flinders: Governance and Patronage


• 20: Felicity Matthews: Governance and State Capacity


• 21: Erik Hans Klijn, Arwin van Buuren, and Jurian Edelenbos: The Impact of Governance


• PART IV: ACTORS, STRATEGIES AND GOVERNANCE STYLES


• 22: Jeremy Richardson: New Governance or Old Governance? A Policy Style Perspective


• 23: Todd Beer,Tim Bartley, and Wade T. Roberts: NGOs: Between Advocacy, Service Provision and Regulation


• 24: Diane Stone: Actors of Knowledge


• PART V: ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE


• 25: Frans Van Waarden: The Governance of Markets: On Generating Trust in Transactions


• 26: Graham Wilson: Governance after the Crisis


• 27: Dieter Plehwe: Modes of Economic Governance: The Dynamics of Governance at the National and Firm Level


• 28: Ellen E. Meade: The Governance of Central Banks


• PART VI: GOVERNANCE OF RISKS


• 29: Elizabeth Fisher: Risk and Governance


• 30: Susana Borrás: Governance of Science and Technology


• 31: Thomas Bernauer and Lena Schaffer: The Governance of Global Climate Change


• PART VII: DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE


• 32: Frank Fischer: Participatory Governance: From Theory to Practice


• 33: Amit Ron: Modes of Democratic Governance


• 34: Susan Phillips: The New Citizenship and Governance: Alternative Intersections


• 35: Chris Ansell: Collaborative Governance


• 36: Yannis Papadopoulos: The Democratic Quality of Collaborative Governance


• 37: Yael Yishai: Participatory Governance in Public Health: Choice, but no Voice


• 38: Cynthia Estlund: A Return to Governance in the Law of the Workplace


• 39: Colin Provost: Governance and Voluntary Regulation


• 40: Eran Fisher: E-Governance and E-Democracy: Questioning Technology-centered Categories


• 41: William Dutton: The Fifth Estate: A New Governance Challenge


• 42: Abraham L. Newman: The Governance of Privacy


• PART VIII: EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE


• 43: Tanja A. Borzel: The European Union - A Unique Governance Mix?


• 44: Ian Bache: Multi Level Governance in the European Union


• 45: Adrienne Héritier and Catherine Moury: Institutional Change in European Governance: The Commission¿s Implementing Powers and the European Parliament, European University Institute


• 46: Frank Schimmelfennig: EU External Governance and Europeanization Beyond the EU


• PART IX: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE


• 47: William W. Coleman: Governance and Global Policy


• 48: Arie Kacowicz: Governance, International Order, and World Order


• 49: Thomas Risse: Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood


• 50: Alexandria Jayne Innes and Brent J. Steele: Governmentality in Global Governance


• 51: Michael Zürn: Global Governance as Multi Governance


• 52: Kerstin Sahlin and Djelic Marie-Laure: The Challenges of Transnational Economic Governance

David Levi-Faur is a founding editor of the journal Regulation & Governance. He is based at the Department of Political Science and the Federmann School of Public Policy and Government at the Hebrew University. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe>" the Free University of Berlin.