Democratic Governance: A Genealogy |
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Authors: | Mark Bevir |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Political Science , University of California , Berkeley, USA mbevir@berkeley.edu |
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Abstract: | This essay draws on my book, Democratic Governance (Princeton University Press, 2010), to provide a genealogy of governance and to explore its implications for democracy. My arguments can be quickly stated: governance rose and spread as a consequence of new modernist theories and the public sector reforms that were inspired by these theories; policy actors respond to the challenges of governance by supplementing representative institutions with yet more modernist expertise. |
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Keywords: | Democracy governance institutionalism modernism rational choice |
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