Title | Governance in Modern Society [electronic resource] : Effects, Change and Formation of Government Institutions / edited by Oscar van Heffen, Walter J. M. Kickert, Jacques J. A. Thomassen |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2000 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9486-8 |
Descript | IX, 379 p. online resource |
Introduction: multi-level and multi-actor governance -- I Effects of Government Institutions -- The comitology game: European policymaking with parliamentary involvement -- Institutional change in the emerging European polity -- The secret and cost of success: institutional change and policy change -- The swamp of Dutch politics: how the impact of modernization on political behavior is modified by institutional context -- Interactive decision making and representative democracy: institutional collisions and solutions -- Is mediation a suitable alternative to court trials? An assessment of institutional effects on the processing of disputes -- Institutionalism: state models and policy processes -- II Change of government institutions -- Restructuring a corporatist welfare state: managed liberalization and the role of the state, the social partners and the market in Dutch social security and labor market policy -- Administrative conditions to institutional politics: federalism in an unitary state -- Public governance in Europe: a historical-institutional tour dโhorizon -- Information and communication technology and the redefinition of the functional and normative boundaries of government -- III Formation of government institutions -- The mobilization of bias revisited: institutional design, cultural bias and policy-oriented learning -- Interactive policy making as a serious alternative: Balancing between an open and closed approach -- Process Management -- Managing public-private partnerships: influencing processes and institutional context of public-private partnerships -- Legal institutions as systems of legal norms -- Contributors