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Analyzes the relationship between community embeddedness & collaborative governance & focuses on the effect of embeddedness on social movement attitudes toward collaboration in the well-established & diverse groups of the San Francisco Bay Area environmental movement. Utilizing network theory, several measures of positional, relational, & structural embeddedness are discussed to illuminate what types of embeddedness encourage collaboration. The findings from a survey of environmental groups in the Bay Area reveal various attitudes toward collaboration with public agencies & dialogue with opposing groups, & these attitudes are correlated with the groups' types of embeddedness. Conclusions are drawn regarding the effect of embeddedness in social movement networks. 4 Tables. L. Collins Leigh

Analyzes the relationship between community embeddedness & collaborative governance & focuses on the effect of embeddedness on social movement attitudes toward collaboration in the well-established & diverse groups of the San Francisco Bay Area environmental movement. Utilizing network theory, several measures of positional, relational, & structural embeddedness are discussed to illuminate what types of embeddedness encourage collaboration. The findings from a survey of environmental groups in the Bay Area reveal various attitudes toward collaboration with public agencies & dialogue with opposing groups, & these attitudes are correlated with the groups' types of embeddedness. Conclusions are drawn regarding the effect of embeddedness in social movement networks. 4 Tables. L. Collins Leigh

If you remain befuddled, perplexed, or even a bit hazy about why scholars have shifted in the last decade from talking about "government" to talking about "governance," this is the volume for you. Debating Governance, edited by Jon Pierre, brings together a diverse group of scholars to analyze the meaning and value of this concept within their respective subfields. The title of the volume may, however, be ambiguous. These scholars are not debating the meaning and value of the term governance among themselves. The contributors to the volume generally agree that governance is a useful and valuable concept. Despite differences in emphasis, perspective, and language, the authors generally agree about why we must shift from talking about "government" to talking about "governance." The debate, if there is one, is with those who would deny or ignore fundamental changes in the way in which we govern ourselves over the last several decades.

Here, Chris Ansell begins with a theory of the concept and then explains why the approach is ideal for addressing today's governance problems. Ansell argues that wishing away bureaucracy will not do given what we know about the indispensible role of institutions in contemporary governance.