The Governance Report 2014

by The Hertie School of Governance

• ISBN13: 9780198706618
• ISBN10: 0198706618
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-05-13
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Democratic governance faces unprecedented challenges across the OECD world and beyond. Enormous strains will be placed on states' resources and their governing capacities to deal with the combined effects of the financial crisis, climate change, and demographic change. The basic foundations of established 'statehood' will be tested. At the same time, the architecture of the state has fundamentally changed over the past three decades. The Governance Report 2014 questions whether governments still have the capacities to respond. The Report develops a framework to explore the administrative capacities of the public sector in OECD countries, analyses how these capacities have been used to develop innovative policy approaches to key governance challenges, and explores governance innovations to enhance governance capacities. In addition, the Report utilises novel analytical tools to understand the diffusion of major policy innovations over the last 30 to 40 years. The Governance Report 2014 advances the debate on the problem-solving capacity of the modern state in the light of ongoing and future challenges.

Author Biography

The Hertie School of Governance, The Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, Germany

The Hertie School of Governance is an international teaching and research centre of excellence in Berlin, Germany that prepares students for leadership positions in government, business, and civil society. An internationally-recruited faculty, interdisciplinary in outlook, research, and teaching, offers analytically-challenging and practice-oriented courses on governance, policy analysis, management, and leadership and helps students grow intellectually in a professional, research-intensive environment, characterised by public debate and engagement. The School was founded in 2003 as a project of the Hertie Foundation, which remains its major partner.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Administrative Capacities and Governance Readiness, Martin Lodge, Kai Wegrich and Helmut Anheier
2. Administrative Capacities, Martin Lodge and Kai Wegrich
3. Governance Strategies, Kai Wegrich and Martin Lodge
4. Governance Innovations, Martin Lodge and Kai Wegrich
5. Governance Indicators: Diffusion of Innovation, Piero Stanig and colleagues
6. Conclusion and Recommendations, Martin Lodge and Kai Wegrich