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Paraguay has identified public governance reform as an important tool for achieving sustainable and inclusive growth. This review examines areas of public governance such as co-ordination across administrative silos, strengthening links between budgeting and planning, and enhancing the decentralisation process to improve development outcomes in all regions of the country. It also assesses the management of the civil service, as well as the implementation of open government strategies and initiatives to involve citizens and businesses in the policy cycle. This review provides concrete recommendations to support public governance reform in Paraguay.

I study the relation between internal governance and creditor governance. A deterioration in creditor governance may increase the agency costs of debt and managerial opportunism at the expense of shareholders. I exploit the introduction of credit default swaps (CDS) as a negative shock to creditor governance. I provide evidence consistent with shareholders pushing for a substitution effect between internal governance and creditor governance. Following CDS introduction, CDS firms reduce managerial risk-taking incentives relative to other firms. At the same time, after the start of CDS trading, CDS firms increase managerial wealth-performance sensitivity, board independence, and CEO turnover performance-sensitivity relative to other firms.

Nachhaltigkeit fördern – dazu braucht es neue, nicht-hierarchische Steuerungsformen, die gesellschaftliche Akteure einbeziehen, so eine verbreitete Annahme. Aber wie erfolgreich sind diese Formen tatsächlich im Vergleich zur klassischen Steuerung durch den Staat? Dieser Frage geht die Studie mit einem innovativen Ansatz nach. Sie klärt hierzu zunächst, wie Governance adäquat erfasst und wie verschiedene Formen unterschieden werden können. Die Handlungsstrategien von betroffenen Akteuren in den Blick nehmend, zeigt sie ferner einen Ansatz zur Erfassung gesellschaftlicher Auswirkungen und ihrem Beitrag zu Nachhaltigkeit auf.Mithilfe dieses theoretischen Rahmens untersucht der Autor exemplarisch das Feld der Schweizer Energiepolitik anhand qualitativer Fallstudien (welche hierarchische, partizipative und selbstregulierende Governance abbilden). Die Ergebnisse verdeutlichen Stärken und Schwächen der Steuerungsformen und legen den Fokus auf deren Zusammenspiel zur Förderung von Nachhaltigkeit.

"Call for Leadership and Governance" -- "J. Kohler: Concept of Understanding of (Good) Leadership and (Good) Governance" -- "1. Call for (Good) Governance and (Good) Leadership" -- "1.1 Political Expectations and Demands, Predicaments and Options" -- "1.2 Technical Paradigm Shift – New Public Management" -- "1.3 Call for Autonomy – Responsibility and Accountability as Consequences" -- "1.4 Governance and Leadership as Joint Desiderata" -- "2. Governance" -- "2.1 Approach to the issue" -- "2.2 Short Definition" -- "2.3 Complex Definition" -- "2.4 Values and Alternatives" -- "2.5 Concrete Issues" -- "3. Leadership" -- "3.1 Approach to the Issue" -- "3.2 Short Definition" -- "3.3 Complex Definition" -- "3.4 Values and Alternatives" -- "3.5 Concrete Issues" -- "4. Linking and Embedding Governance and Leadership in Expert Organizations and Societal Culture" -- "[1] Barzelay, M. (2001): The New Public Management: Improving Research and Policy Dialogue." -- "[2] Bergan, S. (Ed.) (2004): The University as Res Publica: Higher Education Governance, Student Participation and the University as a Site for Citizenship. Council of Europe higher education series No. 1. Strasbourg" -- "[3] Clark, B. (1983): The Higher Education System – Academic Organisations in Cross-National Perspective. Berkeley" -- "[4] Coaldrake, P.: Stedman, L. (1999): Academic Work in the Twenty-First Century: Changing Roles and Policies. Occasional paper series, Higher Education Division, Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Australia." -- "[5] Fried, J. (2005): "Higher Education Governance in Europe: Autonomy, Ownership and Accountability – A Review of the Literature." In: Kohler, J

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface by the Editors -- List of Abbreviations -- PART I THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- 1 Governance and the Democratic Deficit: Introduction -- 2 The Governance Concept in Public Administration -- 3 Legitimacy and Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Governance Practices -- 4 The Idea of Democracy and the Eighteenth Century -- PART II GOVERNANCE AT A DISTANCE AND MARKET GOVERNANCE -- 5 Governance, Democracy and the European Modernization Agenda: A Comparison of Different Policy Initiatives -- 6 Police, Policing and Governance in The Netherlands and in the United Kingdom -- 7 The Accountability of Professionals in Social Policy: Or Why Governance is Multi-Focal and Democracy is Multi-Local -- PART III NETWORK GOVERNANCE AND SOCIETAL SELF-GOVERNANCE -- 8 The Legitimacy of the Rotterdam Integrated Public Safety Program -- 9 Embedding Deliberative Democracy: Local Environmental Forums in The Netherlands and the United States -- 10 The Limits of Donor-Induced Participation: An Analysis of a Participatory Development Program in Mozambique -- PART IV MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE -- 11 Democratic Legitimacy of Inter-Municipal and Regional Governance -- 12 Democratic Legitimacy of Economic Governance: The Case of the European and Monetary Union -- 13 The OMC and the Quest for Democratic Legitimization: The Case of the European Employment Strategy -- 14 Supranational Governance and the Challenge of Democracy: The IMF and the World Bank -- PART V CONCLUSIONS -- 15 Governance and the Democratic Deficit: An Evaluation

The challenge of governing a complex organization is difficult enough in itself, without layering on top of that challenge the struggle to make the board's own operating system seem natural and meaningful. Making Your Governance Model Work is a practical guide that takes the mystery out of that process.

Over the past few years, most Asian jurisdictions have substantially revamped their laws, regulations and other corporate governance norms. However, enforcement remains a significant challenge and "an unfinished agenda". This publication offers a unique snapshot of how corporate governance is being enforced in Asia. It provides policy makers, judges, investors, board members and stakeholders with cases studies and analysis that illustrate how regulators deal with enforcement in practice.

It is widely acknowledged that we are witnessing a major transformation of public policy making, a transformation which has been labelled as a change from 'government' to 'governance'. This comprehensive volume assesses the alleged 'democratic deficit' of these new governance practices and as such is ideally suited to courses on public administration.