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Understanding Governance: Ten Years On
Citation
Rhodes, RAW, Understanding Governance: Ten Years On, Organization Studies, 28, (8) pp. 1243-1264. ISSN 0170-8406 (2007) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1177/0170840607076586
Abstract
The paper reassesses the argument in Understanding Governance (1997). The first section
summarizes where we are now in the study of governance, reviewing briefly the key
concepts of policy networks, governance, core executive, hollowing out the state and the
differentiated polity. The second section engages with my critics with the aim of opening
new directions of research. I concentrate on the key issues of: the context of policy
networks, explaining change and the role of ideas, the decline of the state, rescuing the
core executive, and steering networks. Under each heading, I sketch a decentred answer
to the question of where we go from here. I argue the analysis of governance should
focus on beliefs, practices, traditions and dilemmas.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | core executive, decentred theory, differentiated polity, governance, hollowing out, policy networks |
Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Policy and administration |
Research Field: | Public administration |
Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
Objective Group: | Government and politics |
Objective Field: | Government and politics not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Rhodes, RAW (Professor Rod Rhodes) |
ID Code: | 58333 |
Year Published: | 2007 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 670 |
Deposited By: | Government |
Deposited On: | 2009-09-29 |
Last Modified: | 2012-10-09 |
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