Reflexive governance : redefining the public interest in a pluralistic world / edited by Olivier De Schutter and Jacques Lenoble.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lenoble, Jacques, 1950- editor.

Schutter, Olivier de, editor.

Series:

Modern studies in European law ; v. 22.

Modern studies in European law ; v. 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Union.

Law--European Union countries.

Law.

European Union countries--Politics and government.

European Union countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reflexive governance offers a theoretical framework for understanding modern patterns of governance in the European Union (EU) institutions and elsewhere. It offers a learning-based approach to governance, but one which can better respond to concerns about the democratic deficit and to the fulfillment of the public interest than the currently dominant neo-institutionalist approaches. The book is composed of one general introduction and eight chapters. Chapter one introduces the concept of reflexive governance and describes the overall framework. The following chapters of the book then summarise the implications of reflexive governance in major areas of domestic, EU and global policy-making. They address in turn: Services of General Interest, Corporate Governance, Institutional Frames for Markets, Regulatory Governance, Fundamental Social Rights, Healthcare Services, Global Public Services and Common Goods. While the themes are diverse, the chapters are unified by their attempt to get to the heart of which concepts of governance are dominant in each field, and what their successes and failures have been: reflexive governance then emerges as one possible response to the failures of other governance models currently being relied upon by policy-makers

Contents:

Introduction : institutions equipped to learn

Olivier De Schutter and Jacques Lenoble

Renewing the theory of public interest : the quest for a reflexive and learning-based approach to governance

Jacques Lenoble and Marc Maesschalck

'Reflexive' market regulation : cognitive cooperation in competitve information fora

Eric Brousseau and Jean-Michel Glachant

Reflexive governance, regulation and meta-regulation : control or learning?

Colin Scott

Neo-institutionalist and collaborative-relational approaches to governance in services of general interest : the case of energy in the UK and Germany

Tony Prosser ... [et al.]

Reflexive approaches to corporate governance : the case of Heathrow Terminal 5

Simon Deakin and Aristea Koukiadaki

The democratic experimentalist approach to governance : protecting social rights in the European Union

Olivier De Schutter

From collaborative to genetic governance : the example of healthcare services in England

Peter Vincent-Jones and Caroline Mullen

The contribution of network governance in overcoming frame conflicts : enabling social learning and building reflexive abilities in biodiversity governance

Tom Dedeurwaerdere.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [201]-217) and index.

ISBN:

9786612897108

9781472565099

1472565096

9781282897106

1282897101

9781847315847

1847315844

OCLC:

693761421