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This article examines a mode of hybrid governance in which sovereign states & nonstate parties collaborate as equal partners to address complex problems that are beyond the problem-solving capacities of states acting alone. Under conventional state-centric approaches, environmental policy is the exclusive province of territorially delimited sovereign states, subject only to such obligations as states incur through voluntary inter-sovereign agreements. In contrast, "postsovereign" governance is nonexclusive, nonhierarchical, & postterritorial. These arrangements emerge from recognition of the limitations of top-down domestic regulation & rules of intersovereign obligation as means to address such complex environmental problems as ecosystem management. Examples are drawn from the US experience in the Chesapeake Bay region, & the joint US-Canadian Great Lakes ecosystem management effort. 52 References. Adapted from the source document.

"Gegenstand dieses Papiers ist die Entwicklung des mit dem Leitbegriff "Governance" verbundenen
analytischen Ansatzes und sein Zusammenhang mit dem steuerungstheoretischen Paradigma.
"Governance" ist, so wird argumentiert, keine einfache Weiterentwicklung von "Steuerung", sondern lenkt
die Aufmerksamkeit auf andere Aspekte der politischen Wirklichkeit. Während die Steuerungstheorie
einem akteurzentrierten Ansatz folgt, ist die sich entwickelnde Governance-Theorie institutionalistisch
und fragt nach der Beschaffenheit von Regelungsstrukturen, in denen öffentliche und private,
hierarchische und netzwerkartige Formen der Regelung zusammenwirken." [Autorenreferat]

This article summarizes progress made in a World Bank initiative funded by the UK Department for International Development to test and develop policy-relevant,politically acceptable, quantitative indicators of governance. There are two majorprinciples involved in the process of generating indicators that are useful for practical reforms. Political acceptability is key in developing neutral quantitative benchmarks of good governance that can be embraced by reformers. Measures should also be institutionally specific so that reformers know which institutions to reform and how to do so. This article explores some of the most promising second-generation indicators of good governance and elaborates on how they are being used in World Bank operations.

Decentralisation is a policy feature common to many African countries. Local governance is therefore gaining in relevance, though not yet in clarity. Based on the experience of a development project in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, the article examines the case of local governance in practice, grounding this in a historical analysis and focusing on the relationship between local government and civil society. (InWent/DÜI)