Open AccessPosted Content
Debating Governance: Authority, Steering, and Democracy
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
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
Citations
More filters
An Action Research Inquiry into Professional Training and Development for Addressing Complex Urban Problems
TL;DR: The key findings of this thesis are that critical reflection is instrumental to developing meaningful learning experiences for adult learners and some of the most important challenges associated with training urban practitioners to adopt a more holistic-multidisciplinary perspective to address complex urban problems.
Journal ArticleDOI
Soft Instruments, Few Networks: How 'New Governance' Materialises in Public Policies on Corporate Social Responsibility Across Europe
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how new governance materialises in public policies on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) across Europe, highlighting how both new governance and CSR facilitate the dispersion of public responsibilities to non-state actors.
Journal ArticleDOI
Les moteurs du développement territorial
TL;DR: In this article, a bilan de litterature and d'experiences sur les notions de gouvernance and de production au niveau territorial, suivi par une analyse de leurs modalites de fabrication des innovations territoriales.
The role of International Non-Governmental Organisations in promoting adult education for social change: A research agenda
Lutz Hoff,Anne Hickling-Hudson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the role of International Non-Governmental Organisations (INGOs) in adult education as one instrument of global civil society to effect social change is explored, where postcolonial theory is utilized to explore the complex relationships between the concepts of globalisation, global civil, society, and adult education for social change.
Transnational Governance in the making - Regulatory Fields and their Dynamics. 1
TL;DR: The impact of a transnationalizing world on German academic life is discussed in this paper, where a German university professor is increasingly expected to belong to a trans-national peer community and to adapt to career development standards highly at odds with German academic traditions.