The Oxford Handbook of Governance

The Oxford Handbook of Governance presents an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the social science literature on governance. The volume presents the core concepts and knowledge that have evolved in the study of governance in different levels and arenas of politics and policymaking. In doing so it establishes itself as the essential point of reference for all those studying politics, society, and economics from a governance perspective. The volume comprises fifty-two chapters from leaders in the field. The chapters are organized in nine sections dealing with topics that include governance as the reform of the state, democratic governance, European governance, and global governance.

1 - From "Big Government" to "Big Governance?"
2 - Governance as a Political Theory
3 - Waves of Governance
4 - The Many Faces of Governance: Adaptation? Transformation? Both? Neither?
5 - New Governance as Regulatory Governance
6 - Governance: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
7 - Governance Networks
8 - Information and Governing: Cybernetic Models of Governance
9 - Governance and Complexity
10 - Good Governance
11 - Governance and Learning
12 - Experimentalist Governance,
13 - Governance and Institutional Flexibility
14 - New Public Management and Governance: a Comparison
15 - Governance and Innovation in the Public Sector
16 - Governance and State Structures
17 - New governance and policy instruments: Are Governments Going 'Soft'?
18 - Governance & Administrative Reforms
19 - Governance and Patronage
20 - Governance and State Capacity
21 - The Impact of Governance
22 - New Governance or Old Governance? A Policy Style Perspective
23 - NGOs: Between Advocacy, Service Provision and Regulation
24 - Actors of Knowledge
25 - The Governance of Markets: On Generating Trust in Transactions
26 - Governance after the Crisis
27 - Modes of Economic Governance: The Dynamics of Governance at the National and Firm Level
28 - The Governance of Central Banks
29 - Risk and Governance
30 - Governance of Science and Technology
31 - The Governance of Global Climate Change
32 - Participatory Governance: From Theory to Practice
33 - Modes of Democratic Governance
34 - The New Citizenship and Governance: Alternative Intersections
35 - Collaborative Governance
36 - The Democratic Quality of Collaborative Governance
37 - Participatory Governance in Public Health: Choice, but no Voice
38 - A Return to Governance in the Law of the Workplace
39 - Governance and Voluntary Regulation
40 - E-Governance and E-Democracy: Questioning Technology-centered Categories
41 - The Fifth Estate: A New Governance Challenge
42 - The Governance of Privacy
43 - The European Union - A Unique Governance Mix?
44 - Multi Level Governance in the European Union
45 - Institutional Change in European Governance: The Commission´s Implementing Powers and the European Parliament, European University Institute
46 - EU External Governance and Europeanization Beyond the EU
47 - Governance and Global Policy
48 - Governance, International Order, and World Order
49 - Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood
50 - Governmentality in Global Governance
51 - Global Governance as Multi Governance
52 - The Challenges of Transnational Economic Governance

David Levi-Faur is a founding editor of the journal Regulation & Governance. He is based at the Department of Political Science and the Federmann School of Public Policy and Government at the Hebrew University. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Kolleg-Forschergruppe "The Transformative Power of Europe>" the Free University of Berlin.