Governing as Governance
- ISBN-10
- 1446215016
- ISBN-13
- 9781446215012
- Category
- Civil society
- Pages
- 249
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Author
- J. Kooiman
Description
The concept of g̀overnance' has become a central catchword across the social and political sciences. In Governing and Governance, Jan Kooiman revisits and develops his seminal work in the field to map and demonstrate the utility of a sociopolitical perspective to our understanding of contemporary forms of governing, governance and governability. A central underlying theme of the book is the notion of governance as a process of interaction between different societal and political actors and the growing interdependencies between the two as modern societies become ever more complex, dynamic and.
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