Governance in Modern Society

1. Front Matter

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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

4. Change of Government Institutions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. Restructuring a Corporatist Welfare State

      • Romke van der Veen

      Pages 181-201

   3. Administrative Conditions to Institutional Politics: Federalism in an Unitary State

      • Theo A. J. Toonen

      Pages 203-222

   4. Public Governance in Europe: A Historical- Institutional Tour D’Horizon

      • Walter J. M. Kickert, Jan L. M. Hakvoort

      Pages 223-255

   5. Information and Communication Technology and the Redefinition of the Functional and Normative Boundaries of Government

      • Victor J. J. M. Bekkers

      Pages 257-278

5. Formation of Government Institutions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-279

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   2. The Mobilization of Bias Revisited: Institutional Design, Cultural Bias and Policy-Oriented Learning

      • Frank Hendriks

      Pages 281-297

   3. Interactive Policy Making as a Serious Alternative: Balancing Between an Open and Closed Approach

      • Monique Esselbrugge

      Pages 299-312

   4. Process Management

      • Hans de Bruijn, Ernst Ten Heuvelhof

      Pages 313-328

   5. Managing Public-Private Partnerships: Influencing Processes and Institutional Context of Public-Private Partnerships

      • Erik-Hans Klijn, Geert R. Teisman

      Pages 329-348

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.

• Change
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• European integration
• Federalism
• Government
• Institutions
• New Public Management
• Parliament
• Public Management
• organization
• policymaking
• public administration
• public governance
• state

• 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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