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Networked Governance

New Research Perspectives

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  • Combines governance research and network analysis, two previously separated fields of research
  • Contributes to the contemporary debate on organizing and steering public and private organizations and institutions
  • Features some of the most prominent authors in the field

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Networked Governance: General Issues

  2. Types, Processes and Limits of Networked Governance

  3. Investigating Networked Governance: Methodological Approaches

  4. Conclusions

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About this book

This edited volume seeks to explore established as well as emergent forms of governance by combining social network analysis and governance research. In doing so, contributions take into account the increasingly complex forms which governance faces, consisting of different  types of actors (e.g. individuals, states, economic entities, NGOs, IGOs), instruments (e.g. law, suggestions, flexible norms) and arenas from the local up to the global level, and which more and more questions theoretical models that have focused primarily on markets and hierarchies. The topics addressed in this volume are processes of coordination, arriving at and implementing decisions taking place in network(ed) (social) structures; such as governance of work relations, of financial markets, of innovation and politics. These processes are investigated and discussed from sociologists’, political scientists’ and economists’ viewpoints. ​

Editors and Affiliations

  • SOCIUM—Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Betina Hollstein

  • Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences IPA Institute for Employment Relations and Labour, Helmut-Schmidt-University—University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Wenzel Matiaske

  • Political Science Department, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Kai-Uwe Schnapp

About the editors

Prof. Dr. Betina Hollstein studied sociology at Philipps Universität Marburg and at the Free University, Berlin. She received her doctorate degree at the Free University, Berlin. Hollstein has been lecturer and researcher at the Universities in Berlin (Free University, Humboldt University), Munich and Mannheim, before she was appointed as professor of sociology at the University of Hamburg. Currently Betina Hollstein is professor of sociology at the University of Bremen. She is acting director of the SOCIUM - Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy at the University of Bremen. Besides, she is a member of the executive board of the German Sociological Association and a member of the board of directors of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). Her research interests include social networks, sociology of the life-course, social inequality, and methods of empirical social research.

Prof. Dr. Wenzel Matiaske studied Sociology, Political Science, and Economics at Philipps Universität Marburg and Public Administration at the German University of Administration Sciences Speyer. He worked as Research Assistant at the Universities of Paderborn and Mainz and held positions as Assistent Professor (1991-1998, Technische Universität Berlin), Acting Professor (1998-2000, University of Paderborg) and Full Professor of Business Administration at the International Institute for Management of Flensburg University (2000-2008). He is currently Professor at Helmut-Schmidt-University / University of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg. Furthermore, he is associated as Research Professor with the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin.

Prof. Dr. Kai-Uwe Schnapp studied Political Science and Public Administration in Berlin and Minneapolis. He worked as Junior Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin(WZB) and as postdoctoral researcher at the Otto-Friedrich-University  Bamberg and the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg. He currently is Professor for Political Science, especially Research Methodology at the University of Hamburg.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Networked Governance

  • Book Subtitle: New Research Perspectives

  • Editors: Betina Hollstein, Wenzel Matiaske, Kai-Uwe Schnapp

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50386-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50384-4Published: 07 April 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84387-2Published: 08 May 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50386-8Published: 30 March 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 269

  • Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Political Theory, Industrial Organization, Public Administration

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