The term governance does not have a settled definition today, and it has at least three main
meanings. The first is international cooperation through nonsovereign bodies outside the …

Governance is shorthand for the pursuit of collective interests and the steering and
coordination of society. During the 1990s, new or emerging models of governance have …

Governance beyond the nation state provides an excellent laboratory in which political
scientists can probe a host of issues and concepts of concern, such as legitimacy …

Governance is an easy-to read introduction to an increasingly important concept in political
science. It provides a clear overview of how the concept has been used in the sub-fields of …

Although governance as a more or less distinctive set of political practices has a long
history, theoretical interest in these practices under the rubric of “governance” mostly …

CONTEMPORARY DEBATE over globalization casts its political effects as both revolutionary
and contradictory. In a" power shift" of historic proportions (Mathews 1997), some analysts …

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 …

It is widely acknowledged that we are observing a major change in the organization of
political power. This transformation has often been labelled as a shift from 'government'to …

Since the 1980s, the concept of governance has increasingly been employed to describe
policymaking in the national, regional, and global arenas. Definitions and uses of …

This chapter is not about governance in general. There are several introductions available
giving a fair picture of the many approaches to the concept (eg Schuppert 2005; Kjær 2004; …