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Debating Governance: Authority, Steering, and Democracy
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The authors examine the effectiveness of different non-institutional strategies at the disposal of modern governments in tackling issues of urban decline, public administrations, governmental regionalization, budget deficits and global economics.Abstract:
Leading scholars in the field of governance examine the effectiveness of the different non-institutional strategies at the disposal of modern governments in tackling issues of urban decline, public administrations, governmental regionalization, budget deficits and global economics. The governance approach to political science yields a new perspective on the role of the state, domestically as well as in the international arena. Globalization, internationalization, and the growing influence of networks in domestic politics means that the notions of state strength and the role of the state in society must re-examined.read more
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Facilitating Mechanisms in Support of Emerging Collaborative Governance of MPAs in Québec
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted an evaluation of four marine protected area (MPA) cases in Quebec and identified the need for: aboriginal and local community engagement; bridging organizations and leadership; traditional and local ecological knowledge (TEK and LEK); public education-awareness; and transparent communications.
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Unity in the Eye of the Beholder? Reasons for Decision in Theory and Practice
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how data, notes, and reasons fluidly shift at the scale of front-line decision-making in Ontario's welfare program, and show that reasons for administrative decisions are multiple and fractured throughout software programs, emails, and physical files.
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Enlisting citizens: forging the effectiveness of policy implementation in local China
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how the Chinese government increases the effectiveness of policy implementation by resorting to citizen participation based on an in-depth case study of the waste classificat...
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Regional Governance in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific
TL;DR: The authors examines the emergence of and relationships between Track 1 and Track 2 arrangements in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific and argues that the emerging complex webs of institutional arrangements exhibit a multi-layered structure of governance in which public and private actors are increasingly connected, but hierarchically organized.