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This Element aims to build, promote, and consolidate a new social science research agenda by defining and exploring the concepts of turbulence and robustness, and subsequently demonstrating the need for robust governance in turbulent times. Turbulence refers to the unpredictable dynamics that public governance is currently facing in the wake of the financial crisis, the refugee crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, the inflation crisis etc. The heightened societal turbulence calls for robust governance aiming to maintain core functions, goals and values by means of flexibly adapting and proactively innovating the modus operandi of the public sector. This Element identifies a broad repertoire of robustness strategies that public governors may use and combine to respond robustly to turbulence. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

"Are theories of governance useful for helping policymakers and citizens meet and tackle contemporary challenges? This insightful book reflects on how a theory becomes useful and evaluates a range of theories according to whether they are warranted, diagnostic, and dialogical. By arguing that useful theory tells us what to ask, not what to do, Christopher Ansell investigates what it means for a theory to be useful. Analysing how governance theories address a variety of specific challenges, chapters examine intractable public problems, weak government accountability, violent conflict, global gridlock, poverty and the unsustainable exploitation of our natural resources. Finding significant tensions between state- and society-centric perspectives on governance, the book concludes with a suggestion that we refocus our theories of governance on possibilities for state-society synergy. Governance theories of the future, Ansell argues, should also strive for a more fruitful dialogue between instrumental, critical and explanatory perspectives. Examining both the conceptual and empirical basis of theories of governance, this comprehensive book will be an invigorating read for scholars and students in the fields of public administration, public policy and planning, development studies, political science and urban, environmental and global governance. By linking theories of governance to concrete societal challenges, it will also be of use to policymakers and practitioners concerned with these fields"--

Democratic governance in a pragmatist key -- Institutions -- Large-scale institutional change -- Organizations -- Problem-solving -- Recursiveness -- Power and responsibility -- Consent -- Collaborative governance -- Problem-solving democracy

Restructuring authority and territoriality / Christopher K. Ansell -- Old and new peripheries in the processes of European territorial integration / Stefano Bartolini -- Center-periphery alignments and political contention in late-modern Europe / Sidney Tarrow -- Sovereignty and territoriality in the European Union: transforming the UK Institutional Order / James A. Caporaso and Joseph Jupille -- Social citizenship in the European Union: toward a spatial reconfiguration? / Maurizio Ferrera -- Islands of transnational governance / Alec Stone Sweet -- Regional integration and left parties in Europe and North America / Gary Marks and Ian Down -- The European Union in American perspective: the transformation of territorial sovereignty in Europe and the United States / Sergio Fabbrini -- Is the democratic deficit a deficiency? the case of immigration policy in the United States and the European Union / Bruce E. Cain -- Territory, representation, and the policy outcome: the United States and the European Union compared / Alberta M. Sbragia -- Territory, authority, and democracy / Christopher K. Ansell -- Postscript: what inefficient history and malleable practices say about nation-states and supranational democracy when territoriality is no longer exclusive / Giuseppe Di Palma