Democratic governance
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Democratic governance
Princeton University Press, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-292) and index
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Description
"Democratic Governance" examines the changing nature of the modern state and reveals the dangers these changes pose to democracy. Mark Bevir shows how new ideas about governance have gradually displaced old-style notions of government in Britain and around the world. Policymakers cling to outdated concepts of representative government while at the same time placing ever more faith in expertise, markets, and networks. Democracy exhibits blurred lines of accountability and declining legitimacy. Bevir explores how new theories of governance undermined traditional government in the twentieth century. Politicians responded by erecting great bureaucracies, increasingly relying on policy expertise and abstract notions of citizenship and, more recently, on networks of quasi-governmental and private organizations to deliver services using market-oriented techniques. Today, the state is an unwieldy edifice of nineteenth-century government buttressed by a sprawling substructure devoted to the very different idea of governance - and democracy has suffered. In "Democratic Governance", Bevir takes a comprehensive look at governance and the history and thinking behind it.
He provides in-depth case studies of constitutional reform, judicial reform, joined-up government, and police reform. He argues that the best hope for democratic renewal lies in more interpretive styles of expertise, dialogic forms of policymaking, and more diverse avenues for public participation.
Table of Contents
List of Tables ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Abbreviations xv Chapter One: Interpreting Governance 1 Part I: The New Governance 15 Chapter Two: The Modern State 17 Chapter Three: New Theories 39 Chapter Four: New Worlds 65 Part II: Constitutionalism 93 Chapter Five: Democratic Governance 95 Chapter Six: Constitutional Reform 122 Chapter Seven: Judicial Reform 147 Part III: Public Administration 175 Chapter Eight: Public Policy 177 Chapter Nine: Joined-up Governance 199 Chapter Ten: Police Reform 227 Conclusion: After Modernism 251 Bibliography 275 Index 293
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