Democratic Network Governance in Europe

by Marcussen, Martin; Torfing, Jacob

• ISBN13: 9781403995308
• ISBN10: 1403995303
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-23
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In Northern and Western Europe, and within the European Union, governance networks are increasingly conceived as an efficient and legitimate way of formulating and implementing public policy in a complex, differentiated and multilayered world. Democratic Network Governance in Europe aims to assess the recent experiences with governance in and through interactive networks at local, national and transnational levels.

Author Biography

MARTIN MARCUSSEN is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Copenhagen University, Denmark. His books include Ideas and Elites: The Social Construction of Economic and Monetary Union (2000) and OECD and the Idea Game: Game Over? (2002). He is currently writing a book about the transnational central bank community.

JACOB TORFING is Professor of Politics at Roskilde University, Denmark. He is currently working on discourse theory, welfare reforms and democratic network governance. His books include New Theories of Discourse (1999) and Politics, Regulation and the Modern Welfare State (1995). He is Director of the Centre for Democratic Network Governance and a member of the Danish Social Research Council.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Democratic Network Governance

Democracy in Collaborative Spaces: Why Context Matters in Researching Governance Networks

Oslo Inner City Districts: Network Failure in the Face of Policy Success

Airport Governance, Politics and Protest Networks

Local Politicians and Administrators as Metagovernors

Discursive Governance Networks in Danish Activation Policy

Young Business Leaders in France: Governance Through Values and Ideas

Interactive Governance in The Netherlands: The Case of the Scheldt Estuary

The Danish Ministry of Finance as Metagovernor: The Case of Public Sector Digitalization

The Evolution of a European Governance Network of Management Education

The Basel Committee as a Transnational Governance Network

Governance Networks in the EU: The Case of GMO Policy

Network Management in the EU: The European Commission as Network Manager

Transcending Analytical Cliquishness with Second-Generation Governance Network Analysis

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