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Searching for Civil Society: Changing Patterns of Governance in Britain
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Rhodes, RAW and Bevir, M, Searching for Civil Society: Changing Patterns of Governance in Britain, Public Administration, 81, (1) pp. 41-62. ISSN 0033-3298 (2003) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1111/1467-9299.00336
Abstract
To understand governance, we ask who is telling the story from within which tradition. We argue there is no essentialist notion of governance but at least four conceptions each rooted in a distinctive tradition. The first section of the paper describes the relevant traditions: Tory, Liberal, Whig and Socialist. The second section describes the different notions of governance associated with each tradition; intermediate institutions, marketizing public services, reinventing the constitution and trust and negotiation. We explain these distinct conceptions of governance as responses to the dilemmas of inflation and state overload. In the conclusion, we summarize how and why traditions change, concluding, there is no such thing as governance, but only the differing constructions of the several traditions.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Studies in Human Society |
| Research Group: | Political Science |
| Research Field: | Comparative Government and Politics |
| Objective Division: | Law, Politics and Community Services |
| Objective Group: | Government and Politics |
| Objective Field: | Government and Politics not elsewhere classified |
| Author: | Rhodes, RAW (Professor Rod Rhodes) |
| ID Code: | 58849 |
| Year Published: | 2003 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 40 |
| Deposited By: | Government |
| Deposited On: | 2009-10-30 |
| Last Modified: | 2010-06-18 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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