Democratic governance / Mark Bevir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bevir, Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy.

Public administration.

State, The.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Democratic Governance examines the changing nature of the modern state and reveals the dangers these changes pose to democracy. Mark Bevir shows how new ideas about governance have gradually displaced old-style notions of government in Britain and around the world. Policymakers cling to outdated concepts of representative government while at the same time placing ever more faith in expertise, markets, and networks. Democracy exhibits blurred lines of accountability and declining legitimacy. Bevir explores how new theories of governance undermined traditional government in the twentieth century. Politicians responded by erecting great bureaucracies, increasingly relying on policy expertise and abstract notions of citizenship and, more recently, on networks of quasi-governmental and private organizations to deliver services using market-oriented techniques. Today, the state is an unwieldy edifice of nineteenth-century government buttressed by a sprawling substructure devoted to the very different idea of governance--and democracy has suffered. In Democratic Governance, Bevir takes a comprehensive look at governance and the history and thinking behind it. He provides in-depth case studies of constitutional reform, judicial reform, joined-up government, and police reform. He argues that the best hope for democratic renewal lies in more interpretive styles of expertise, dialogic forms of policymaking, and more diverse avenues for public participation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Chapter One. Interpreting Governance

Part I: The New Governance

Chapter Two. The Modern State

Chapter Three. New Theories

Chapter Four. New Worlds

Part II: Constitutionalism

Chapter Five. Democratic Governance

Chapter Six. Constitutional Reform

Chapter Seven. Judicial Reform

Part III: Public Administration

Chapter Eight. Public Policy

Chapter Nine. Joined-up Governance

Chapter Ten. Police Reform

Conclusion: After Modernism

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612645112

9781282645110

1282645110

9781400836857

1400836859

OCLC:

650305561