Governance Challenges and Innovations Financial and Fiscal Governance

by Anheier, Helmut K.

• ISBN13: 9780199674930
• ISBN10: 0199674930
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-09-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Helmut K. Anheier is President and Dean at the Hertie School of Governance, and holds a chair of sociology at Heidelberg University. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1986, was a senior researcher at John Hopkins School of Public Policy, Professor of Public Policy and Social Welfare at UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs, and Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. Professor Anheier founded and directed the Centre for Civil Society at LSE, the Center for Civil Society at UCLA, and the Center for Social Investment at Heidelberg. Before embarking on an academic career, he served as social affairs officer to the United Nations. He is author of over 400 publications, and won various international prizes and recognitions for his scholarship.

Table of Contents

Part I Introduction to the Edited Volume
Introduction, Helmut K. Anheier, Hertie School of Governance
Part II Conceptualizing Governance Readiness
1. Meeting Global Challenges: Assessing Governance Readiness, Inge Kaul, Hertie School of Governance
Part III Financial and Fiscal Governance
2. Introducing the Issue of Financial and Fiscal Governance, Mark Hallerberg, Hertie School of Governance
3. Is the European Union Governance Ready to Deal with the Next Financial Crisis?, Lucia Quaglia, University of Sussex and EUI
4. Picking Up (And Rearranging) the Pieces: The Politics of Global Financial Governance in the Wake of the Great Recession, Mark S. Copelovitch, University of Wisconsin at Madison
5. The Fiscal Policy Implications of Balance of Payments Imbalances, Stephanie Walter, University of Heidelberg
6. The Political Sources of Crisis Situations, William Roberts Clark and Vincent Arel-Bundock, University of Michigan
Part IV Governance Innovations
7. What is Governance Innovation?, Helmut K. Anheier, Hertie School of Governance, Mark Fliegauf, University of Cambridge, and Lorenzo Fioramonti, University of Pretoria
8. Governance Innovations: A Discussion of Empirical Cases, Helmut K. Anheier and Sabrina Korreck, Hertie School of Governance
Part V Governance Indicators
9. Measuring Governance: A Proposal, Mark Kayser and Piero Stanig, Hertie School of Governance
10. Public-Private Sector Relationships, Capture and Governance Quality, Klaus Brosamle, Hertie School of Governance
11. Governance beyond the Nation-state: Estimating Governance Indexes at the Sub-national and Trans-national Level, Piero Stanig, Hertie School of Governance