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Governance in Modern Society

Effects, Change and Formation of Government Institutions

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Editors:
  1. Oscar Heffen

    1. Center for Higher Education Policy Studies, Netherlands Institute of Government, University of Twente, Netherlands

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  2. Walter J. M. Kickert

    1. Faculty of Social Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

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  3. Jacques J. A. Thomassen

    1. Faculty of Public Administration and Public Policy, Netherlands Institute of Government, University of Twente, Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Library of Public Policy and Public Administration (LPPP, volume 4)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-1
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  2. Introduction: Multi-Level and Multi-Actor Governance

    1. Introduction: Multi-Level and Multi-Actor Governance

      • Oscar van Heffen, Walter Kickert, Jacques Thomassen
      Pages 3-11

  3. Effects of Government Institutions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. The Comitology Game: European Policymaking with Parliamentary Involvement

      • Bernard Steunenberg, Dieter Schmidtchen
      Pages 15-33

    3. Institutional Change in the Emerging European Polity

      • Kees van Kersbergen, Robert H. Lieshout, Bertjan Verbeek
      Pages 35-60

    4. The Secret and Cost of Success: Institutional Change and Policy Change

      • Michiel S. de Vries
      Pages 61-86

    5. The Swamp of Dutch Politics: How the Impact of Modernization on Political Behavior is Modified by Institutional Context

      • Kees Aarts, Jacques Thomassen, Pieter van Wijnen
      Pages 87-108

    6. Interactive Decision Making and Representative Democracy: Institutional Collisions and Solutions

      • Erik-Hans Klijn, Joop F. M. Koppenjan
      Pages 109-134

    7. Is Mediation a Suitable Alternative to Court Trials?

      • Mirjan Oude Vrielink
      Pages 135-152

    8. Institutionalism: State Models and Policy Processes

      • Oscar van Heffen, Pieter-Jan Klok
      Pages 153-177
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About this book

This book is the immediate result of the co-operation of a great number of scholars in the Netherlands Institute of Government (NIG). NIG is an interuniversity research school. As such it has a double task. In addition to offering a Ph.D program to students in Public Administration it also is a research institute in which a great number of scholars from seven Dutch universities participate and work on a common research program. The chapters in this book are all products of the research program that started in 1995. This program had the ambition to explore the frontiers of the discipline in two respects. First by studying a number of recent developments in society and their consequences for the functioning of government. These consequences can be summarised as the development of a system of multi level and multi actor governance. Second, by contributing to the knowledge of institutions, both by studying what factors are most important in the formation and change of institutions and by studying the effects of institutions on the behaviour of actors in different political and administrative settings. Most contributions to this volume either have their origin in conferences organized by the NIG or were published as an NIG working paper. We are grateful to Marcia Clifford and Connie Hoekstra who prepared the final version of the manuscript, to Ian Priestnall who took care of the language editing and to an anonymous reviewer whose comments were gratefully used.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Higher Education Policy Studies, Netherlands Institute of Government, University of Twente, Netherlands

    Oscar Heffen

  • Faculty of Social Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

    Walter J. M. Kickert

  • Faculty of Public Administration and Public Policy, Netherlands Institute of Government, University of Twente, Netherlands

    Jacques J. A. Thomassen

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