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Re-thinking Governance in Public Policy: Dynamics, Strategy and Capacities

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Varieties of Governance

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Governance is not a fashion, but a firmly established lens through which to analyse the complexity of contemporary policy-making, that is the way in which a society and its political processes are organized and steered. Thus, governance needs to be seen as a general concept within political analysis that represents a necessary, heuristic tool with which to describe some of the complexity of political processes. Governance is not only a fashionable term, but one destined to remain with us for some time yet.

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  1. Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy

    Giliberto Capano (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Simon Fraser University, Canada

    Michael Howlett (Burnaby Mountain Chair, Professor) (Burnaby Mountain Chair, Professor)

  3. National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Michael Howlett (Burnaby Mountain Chair, Professor) & M. Ramesh (Professor) (Burnaby Mountain Chair, Professor) &  (Professor)

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Capano, G., Howlett, M., Ramesh, M. (2015). Re-thinking Governance in Public Policy: Dynamics, Strategy and Capacities. In: Capano, G., Howlett, M., Ramesh, M. (eds) Varieties of Governance. Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137477972_1

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