Innovations in networked digital communications technologies, including the rise of “Big
Data,” ubiquitous computing, and cloud storage systems, may be giving rise to a new system …

The central premise of the article is that the assumptions and approaches of the
“anticorruption industry” that debuted in the 1990s framed the issue of corruption and …

In the past decades, a great interest has emerged in understanding the nature of people's
well-being beyond consumption opportunities. It is widely believed that happiness research …

This edition of Trusted Criminals was written and went into production during 2008–2009, a
period in which the United States was experiencing its greatest economic crisis since the …

This article discusses the objective of this volume, which is to demonstrate that governance
is increasingly becoming a broad concept that is central to the study of political, economic …

Like many other political concepts, regulation is hard to define, not least because it means
different things to different people. The term is employed for a myriad of discursive …

The use of indicators is a prominent feature of contemporary global governance. Indicators
are used to compare and rank states for purposes as varied as deciding how to allocate …

Governance–ist das wieder ein Anglizismus, mit dem Sozialwissenschaftler ihr
Sprachrepertoire unnötig verkomplizieren? Liegt nicht wie bei allen aus dem …

This distinctive book highlights the comparative transversal and national issues of multi-level
governance in social welfare policies. The author reports on three particular policy areas …

The concept of regulation is believed to suffer from a lack of shared understanding. Yet the
maturation of the field raises the question whether this conclusion is still valid. By taking a …