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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This incisive
Research Agenda for Governance draws together unique contributions
from leading scholars to examine the two distinct models of
governance: the traditional model, based on the state and exercise
of control through law and bureaucracy, and an alternative model
centred on the collaboration of public and private sector actors.
Introducing the essential principles and rationale of these
alternative models of governance, both of which can be seen
operating at all levels of government in democratic as well as
non-democratic regimes, the chapters evaluate the strengths and
weaknesses of the two systems. Drawing conclusions from critical
areas of inquiry, including multi-level governance, the nature of
governance in democratic and authoritarian regimes, and digital
innovations in governance, the book offers a richly detailed
insight into the respective workings of the models of governing by
control and by collaboration. This Research Agenda will be an
invaluable resource for academics and graduate students of public
policy, regulation and governance, and public administration
management. Its measured consideration of the possibilities for
enhancing public innovation via alternative models of governance
will also be of significant interest to employees within the public
sector.
Political Innovations: Creative Transformations in Polity, Politics
and Policy provides a theoretical framework for studies of
political innovation as well as a number of empirical studies of
innovations in the way policy strategies take form, in the exercise
of political leadership, in community self-organizing, in political
parties, and what implications informal governance has on political
innovation. Public innovation has risen to the top of the agenda
among governments all over the Western world. The message is clear:
the public sector needs to become more innovative in order to meet
the demands of modern society. There is also a growing interest in
public innovation amongst students of public policy and governance,
who are currently working to define and conceptualize public
innovation, analyze drivers of, and barriers to, innovation in the
public sector, and prescribe ways to make the public sector more
innovative. However, researchers have so far mainly theorized,
studied and analyzed issues related to innovations in public
services and public delivery. Few have payed attention to the fact
that public service innovation takes place in a political context,
and that innovations in polity, politics and policy are fundamental
aspects of public innovation. A comprehensive research agenda on
public innovation should therefore include studies of political
innovation. This book will be of great value to scholars and
researchers interested in Public Administration, Policy Making and
Innovation, Public Governance and Political Leadership. It was
originally published as a special issue of the Public Management
Review.
Liberal democracies are experiencing a major transformation of
public governance by which self-regulation, co-operation and
negotiation between public and private actors and across different
political-administrative levels play an increasingly important role
for policy-making and implementation. Using the term 'governance
imagery', or what a given society envisions to be the proper way of
governing public affairs, this volume examines the emergence,
causes and consequences of the politics of self-governance both
within relevant social science theorizing and in the everyday
production of public governance in various policy areas. It
questions how self-governance materialized in various areas of
public governance in different liberal democracies, and the driving
forces and political effects of attempts to enhance the role of
self-governance. Challenging the theory and practice of public
administration, The Politics of Self-Governance is an indispensable
read for all those interested in new forms of public governance.
"Distillation: Fundamentals and Principles" is a single source of
authoritative information on all aspects of the theory and practice
of modern distillation, suitable for advanced students and
professionals working in a laboratory, industrial plants, or a
managerial capacity. It addresses the most important and current
research on industrial distillation, including all steps in process
design (feasibility study, modeling, and experimental validation),
together with operation and control aspects. This volume features
an extra focus on the conceptual design of distillation.
Practical information on the newest development written by
recognized expertsCoverage of a huge range of laboratory and
industrial distillation approachesExtensive references for each
chapter facilitates further study
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available
to read online. The UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set
an ambitious agenda for global problem-solving and create a
framework to achieve it through the power of partnerships. Goal 17
points to the central importance of partnerships, networks, and
multi-stakeholder collaborations for bringing together a broad
range of actors to accomplish the first 16 goals. Only through such
partnerships can the distributed knowledge, resources and capacity
of government agencies, private enterprises, political activists,
local communities, and international NGOs be effectively combined
to produce the major breakthroughs in sustainability that the SDGs
envision. Co-Creation for Sustainability sets out a strategy of
partnership, with an emphasis on how global goals can be translated
into local action. Co-creation brings multiple parties
together-including citizens-to collaboratively engage in innovative
problem-solving. The book explains this strategy and describes how
to foster the conditions necessary for its success. It details how
leaders can spur co-creation and manage and overcome its practical
challenges. Written to inspire public and private changemakers to
find fundamental solutions to the pressing challenges that confront
our social and natural environment, Co-creation for Sustainability:
The UN SDGs and the Power of Partnerships provides intellectual
resources and practical advice relevant for those who aspire to
harness the talents, energy and perspectives of different sectors
to build the momentum we need to realize a sustainable future.
Governance has become one of the most commonly used concepts in
contemporary political science. It is, however, often used to mean
a variety of different things. This book helps to clarify this
conceptual muddle by concentrating on one variety of
governance-interactive governance. The authors argue that although
the state may remain important for many aspects of governing,
interactions between state and society represent an important, and
perhaps increasingly important, dimension of governance. These
interactions may be with social actors such as networks, with
market actors or with other governments, but all these forms
represent means of governing involving mixtures of state action
with the actions of other entities.This book explores thoroughly
this meaning of governance, and links it to broader questions of
governance. In the process of explicating this dimension of
governance the authors also explore some of the more fundamental
questions about governance theory. For example, although governance
is talked about a great deal political science has done relatively
little about how to measure this concept. Likewise, the term
multi-level governance has become widely used but its important to
understand that idea more fully and see how it functions in the
context of interactive forms of governance. The authors also link
governance to some very fundamental questions in political science
and the social sciences more broadly. How is power exercised in
interactive governance? How democratic is interactive governance,
and is democratic governance always advanced through transparency?
Governance has become one of the most commonly used concepts in
contemporary political science. It is, however, often used to mean
a variety of different things. This book helps to clarify this
conceptual muddle by concentrating on one variety of
governance-interactive governance. The authors argue that although
the state may remain important for many aspects of governing,
interactions between state and society represent an important, and
perhaps increasingly important, dimension of governance. These
interactions may be with social actors such as networks, with
market actors or with other governments, but all these forms
represent means of governing involving mixtures of state action
with the actions of other entities.This book explores thoroughly
this meaning of governance, and links it to broader questions of
governance. In the process of explicating this dimension of
governance the authors also explore some of the more fundamental
questions about governance theory. For example, although governance
is talked about a great deal political science has done relatively
little about how to measure this concept. Likewise, the term
multi-level governance has become widely used but its important to
understand that idea more fully and see how it functions in the
context of interactive forms of governance. The authors also link
governance to some very fundamental questions in political science
and the social sciences more broadly. How is power exercised in
interactive governance? How democratic is interactive governance,
and is democratic governance always advanced through transparency?
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