Governance and the Democratic Deficit
Subtitle: Assessing the Democratic Legitimacy of Governance Practices
Contributors: Victor Bekkers (Editor); Geske Dijkstra (Editor); Arthur Edwards (Editor); Menno Fenger (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing; Ashgate Pub. Ltd.
Published: July 23, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780754649830
Subjects: International relations; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Public Affairs & Administration; Political Ideologies - General; Decentralization in government; Public administration; Public-private sector cooperation
Description: It is widely acknowledged that we are witnessing a major transformation of public policy making, a transformation which has been labelled as a change from 'government' to 'governance'. Governance is used to describe policy making and implementation without a central authority in a non-hierarchical, network-like structure through negotiation and cooperation between public and private actors at one or across different political levels. This comprehensive volume combines empirical analysis and normative assessment of governance practices, providing a systematic approach based on a framework for assessing democratic legitimacy. It addresses different modes of governance at the local/regional, national, European and international levels. The volume assesses the alleged 'democratic deficit' of these new governance practices and as such is ideally suited to courses on public administration. -- Publisher's Description.