Key Concepts in Governance

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‘A comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of the concepts embodied in governance and their wide-ranging applications and implications. An important read and reference for students and academics in the social sciences, particularly those engaged in public policy studies’ – Professor Carolyn J. Heinrich, University of Wisconsin-Madison’An authoritative short survey for which students and teachers alike will be profoundly grateful’ – Professor Rod Rhodes, University of Tasmania and Australian National University’Students of governance will welcome this book given the explosion of literature in the field. It provides a quick guide to key concepts and ideas but does so with considerable originality. We are offered not just a review of well-established positions but a distinctive take on the governance debate’ – Gerry Stoker, Professor of Governance, University of SouthamptonThe language of governance has risen to prominence in the last 20 years as a way of describing and explaining changes in the natu