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Covers the period, 1992-2003

At the end of XX century, Western countries faced a serious management crisis: the failure of three traditional management models (bureaucracy management, market management and network management). The study notes that there are three typical management regimes in public administration and social management: bureaucratic management, market management and network management. Bureaucratic governance is a rational framework that relies on the government controlling economic and social issues from top to bottom. Market management is procedural rationality based on market mediation to regulate economic and social activities. Network management is a reflective rationality that emphasizes "decentralization", "denationalization" and "diversification" and relies on multiple actors in shaping the management network and facilitating the implementation of management. To cope with the crisis, the researchers propose a new concept of "Meta-governance", which means that there are "Meta-managers" for the development of a single managerial purpose, coordination of relations between management factors, promote the coordinated management and maintenance of coherence, efficiency, sustainability and stability control. "Meta-governance not only enriches the theory of governance, but also contributes to the development of public administration and global governance. Meanwhile, the implementation of "Meta-governance" should be based on its own status and characteristics of the state. According to the results of the study, it is noted that "Meta-management" is a reaction to management crises in Western countries. It is based on a developed market, a mature civil society and a perfect political structure of Western countries. The absence of these necessary conditions will inevitably affect the effective implementation of "Meta-governance". Imitation is the wrong way to deal with "Meta-governance." Based on local conditions, for the development of a "Meta-governance" regime that corresponds to the real governance of the country, it can help solve the problems of governance.

This volume explores the way in which political organizations must confront situations of relatively high uncertainty and unpredictability with limited knowledge, and how turbulent times provide opportunities to investigate the sustainability of governance systems.

The relationship between economic or social or political activity and risk is widely recognised at a societal level, a market level and a business level, and equally widely discussed. The relationship between governance and risk at all of these levels is equally widely recognised but much less widely discussed. But the consequences of poor governance in this arena have been exposed to all in the recent financial and economic crisis as financial institutions and even countries have collapsed or come close to collapsing. The relationship between governance and risk is particularly important in the global environment in which we operate and needs to be more fully discussed and theorised. This book is designed to address important aspects of this topic and set it within the context of the global business and societal environment.

While it is generally accepted that both governance and corporate social responsibility are concerned with the way that an organisation manages its relations with its stakeholders, the actual relationships are not simple. The stakeholders who are considered to be dominant and most powerful can change dramatically over time. This is particularly so when governance or CSR is considered in the context of non-commercial forms of organisation. This book re-examines these relationships and the way in which they are changing and developing. The various contributions to the book address different aspects of these relationships from a wide international and interdisciplinary perspective.

Global Governance Futures addresses the crucial importance of thinking through the future of global governance arrangements. It considers the prospects for the governance of world order approaching the middle of the twenty-first century by exploring today's most pressing and enduring health, social, ecological, economic, and political challenges. Each of the expert contributors considers the drivers of continuity and change within systems of governance and how actors, agents, mechanisms, and resources are and could be mobilized. The aim is not merely to understand state, intergovernmental, and non-state actors. It is also to draw attention to those underappreciated aspects of global governance that push understanding beyond strictures of traditional conceptualizations and offer better insights into the future of world order.The book's three parts enable readers to appreciate better the sum of forces likely to shape world order in the near and not-so-near future: "Planetary" encompasses changes wrought by continuing human domination of the earth; war; current and future geopolitical, civilizational, and regional contestations; and life in and between urban and non-urban environments. "Divides" includes threats to human rights gains; the plight of migrants; those who have and those who do not; persistent racial, gender, religious, and sexualorientation-based discrimination; and those who govern and those who are governed. "Challenges" involves food and health insecurities; ongoing environmental degradation and species loss; the current and future politics of international assistance and data; and the wrong turns taken in the control of illicit drugs and crime. Designed to engage advanced undergraduate and graduate students in international relations, organization, law, and political economy as well as a general audience, this book invites readers to adopt both a backward- and forward-looking view of global governance. It will spark discussion and debate as to how dystopic futures might be avoided and change agents mobilized.

How should we study government? How do we know what we know about British government? What is governance? Governance in Britain has changed enormously from the market-led Thatcher years to Blair's 'joined up government'. The authors provide a radical challenge to conventional analyses of the subject.

"In Deutschland wurde Gleichstellungspolitik von Beginn an über Steuerungsformen
betrieben, die heute Gegenstand der Governanceforschung sind. Die feministische
Politikwissenschaft kann darum dieser neuen Forschungsperspektive wichtige Antworten
zu ihren Kernfragen anbieten. Im Rückgriff auf zentrale Ergebnisse feministischer
Forschung machen die Autorinnen die Grenzen der Steuerbarkeit in den Bereichen
Recht, Ökonomie und Sozialpolitik deutlich. Konkret wird die Vielfalt der Governanceformen und -modi an der Politik zu Entgeltgleichheit, zu Gleichheit in der Sorgearbeit
und in der Verwaltungspolitik herausgearbeitet. Im Fazit werden die Synergieeffekte
und die gemeinsamen Anliegen der feministischen Politikwissenschaft und
der Governanceforschung aufgezeigt." (Autorenreferat)

'Globalization in International Relations' provides a sophisticated and engaging exploration of the often differing impacts of technological forces and the wider implications of globalization for theories of global governance and the role of international institutions.