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Handbook of Governance in Small States (Hardcover)
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Handbook of Governance in Small States (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
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This volume covers a wide spectrum of governance issues relating to
small states in a global context. While different definitions of
governance are given in the chapters, most authors associate
governance with the setting and implementation of policies aimed at
managing a country or territory, and with the related institutional
structures and interventions by political actors. Generally, good
governance is associated with concepts such as policy
effectiveness, accountability, transparency, control of corruption,
encouragement of citizens' voice and gender equality-factors which
are, in turn, linked with democracy. What emerges from the book is
that the societies of small states are being re-shaped by various
forces outside their control, including the globalization process
and climate change, rendering their governance ever more complex.
These problems are not solely faced by small states, but small
country size tends to lead to a higher degree of exposure to
external factors. The chapters are grouped into four sections
broadly covering political, environmental, social and economic
governance. Governance is influenced by many, often intertwined,
factors; the division of the book into four parts therefore does
not detract from the fact that governance is multifaceted, and such
division was based on the primary focus of each particular study
and its main disciplinary background. The expert authors have,
moreover, used a variety of approaches in the studies, the subject
of small states being well suited to scholarly work from different
disciplines using qualitative, quantitative and mixed approaches to
arrive at useful conclusions.
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