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Richard Saltman and Antonio Duran take up the challenging issue of governance in their article "Governance, Government and the Search for New Provider Models," and use two case studies of health policy changes in Sweden and Spain to shed light on the subject. In this commentary, I seek to link their conceptualization of governance, especially its interrelated roles at the macro, meso, and micro levels of health systems, with the case studies on which they report. While the case studies focus on the shifts in governance between the macro and meso levels and their impacts on achievement of desired policy outcomes, they also highlight the need to better integrate the dynamics of day to day operations within micro organizations into the overall governance picture.

This article attempts to shed new light on prevailing puzzles of spatial scales in multi-level, participatory governance as regards the democratic legitimacy and environmental effectiveness of governance systems. We focus on the governance re-scaling by the European Water Framework Directive, which introduced new governance scales (mandated river basin management) and demands consultation of citizens and encourages 'active involvement' of stakeholders. This allows to examine whether and how re-scaling through deliberate governance interventions impacts on democratic legitimacy and effective environmental policy delivery. To guide the enquiry, this article organizes existing—partly contradictory—claims on the relation of scale, democratic legitimacy, and environmental effectiveness into three clusters of mechanisms, integrating insights from multi-level governance, social-ecological systems, and public participation. We empirically examine Water Framework Directive implementation in a comparative case study of multi-level systems in the light of the suggested mechanisms. We compare two planning areas in Germany: North Rhine Westphalia and Lower Saxony. Findings suggest that the Water Framework Directive did have some impact on institutionalizing hydrological scales and participation. Local participation appears generally both more effective and legitimate than on higher levels, pointing to the need for yet more tailored multi-level governance approaches, depending on whether environmental knowledge or advocacy is sought. We find mixed results regarding the potential of participation to bridge spatial 'misfits' between ecological and administrative scales of governance, depending on the historical institutionalization of governance on ecological scales. Polycentricity, finally, appeared somewhat favorable in effectiveness terms with some distinct differences regarding polycentricity in planning vs. polycentricity in implementation.

In era globalization the state is expected to change for the better, one of them in the service of maintenance of manufacture Electronic Identity Card. In realizing the changes the government is expected to apply the principles of good governance in giving services must oriented to meeting the needs and satisfaction of the people. This research aims to determine the quality of service maintenance of manufacture Electronic Identity Card based on good governance. Data collection was conducted using questionnaires, interviews, and observations in the District Sukolilo Surabaya, questionnaires were distributed to the public as much as 25 informants. Methods for the data analysis is a data reduction, data presentation, and draw conclusions. The results of the study to get a whole that the implementation aspects of good governance to the dimensions of quality of public services have not felt very good satisfaction just people feel good.Keywords: good governance, the quality of service.

"Sound management of the machinery of government is at the core of a well-functioning state. Written by an author with a wide range of experience in international affairs, this introductory text addresses both the commonalities and diversity of administrative practice around the world. Exploring developed countries as well as developing and transitional economies, it provides strong conceptual foundations combined with nuts-and-bolts "how to" topics, such as public personnel management, public procurement, and public budgeting, supported by data and concrete illustrations. The book is organized around three important themes: the roles, size, and organizational architecture of government; the management of public finances, personnel, and procurement; and the interface between government and society, including the delivery of public services. A concluding chapter summarizes lessons learned and offers possible paths to improve the management of the public sector in sustainable ways. Running the Government will serve as a core text for graduate courses in public administration and as a supplementary text for undergraduate and graduate courses in political science, public economics, and international affairs. It may also serve as an accessible reference for civil service training courses around the globe"--

5 How Can Transnational Connection Hold? An Actor Network Theory Approach to the Materiality of Transnational Education GoverPart Three Knowledge Regimes; 6 Revealing Market Hegemony through a Critical Logics Approach: The Case of England's Academy Schools. Policy; 7 Test-Based Accountability and the Rise of Regulatory Governance in Education: A Review of Global Drivers; 8 Making Education News in Chile: Understanding the Role of Mediatization in Education Governance through a Bourdieuian Framewo; Part Four Institutional Regimes.

"A homicide perpetrated by a mentally-disordered person under the care of health services is a shocking event. Otherwise known as a 'patient homicide', these events attract investigatory responses that are widely understood to be episodes of procedure that seek the truth about what happened and promote the learning of lessons. This monograph however incorporates systems theory into its novel theoretical design and argues that these events are communicated about within closed systems of life (eg, law, medicine). These systems operate through unique internal logics. Yet, they resonate in society and enable a contingent and chaotic space of governance to emerge in which universal understandings about patient homicides and the realisation of pre-defined goals to minimise their occurrence is unachievable.The book is timely because the Scottish Government initiated a process of reforming their patient homicide investigation procedures in 2017. In England more recently, plans to reform patient homicide investigations are slowly germinating. Original and compelling, the book concludes that policy makers should re-evaluate their normative commitments to improve public safety and health service quality in a world of disharmony, objection, and resistance"--

In our current society, governments face complex societal issues that cannot be tackled through traditional governance arrangements. Therefore, governments increasingly come up with smart hybrid arrangements that transcend the boundaries of policy domains and jurisdictions, combine governance mechanisms (state, market, networks and self-governance), and foster new forms of collaboration. This book provides an overview of what smart hybridity entails and of its potentials and challenges. It includes empirical analyses of hybrid arrangements in five policy domains, and reflections upon these studies by internationally renowned governance scholars. They show that the smartness of the new hybrid arrangements does not lie in realizing quick fixes, but in participants' capacities to learn, adapt and arrive at sustainable and legitimate solutions that balance various public values

The result of a long collaboration between a Kenyan-Somali mediator and a Swiss scholar-practitioner, Mediation and Governance in Fragile Contexts introduces an innovative, practical approach to resolving an enduring issue: How can conflicts be resolved in polarized societies? This approach breaks out of the insider/outsider dichotomy to develop a framework for achieving peace in the most challenging of contexts—a framework that unites outsider perspectives on mediation methodology with the rich experiences and reflections that only local peace practitioners can provide. The authors lay out the framework step by step, present case studies that show it in action, and clarify how local peace and security structures can act as a bridge between short-term mediation and long-term state-building efforts around the world.

"With isolationism and protectionism strengthening in response to the forces of globalization, the interrelationship of the national and supranational in shaping good governance norms has become increasingly relevant. "Good Governance in Economic Development" critically examines the transparency and accountability mechanisms underpinning international trade, finance, and investment regimes, particularly in view of the intensifying influence of China. It also explores the Chinese state's engagement with these norms, shedding light not only on how the principles of transparency, accountability, and public participation are applied within China, but also on the ability of China to affect international rules."--

Introduction -- Background to corporate environment in Tanzania -- Ethics, accountability and governance -- Public sector code of ethics -- Corporate evolution and challenges -- Governance failure & corporate waste cases analysis -- Reflections and recommendations.

This case explains key features of multi-sited ethnography, providing insights into the enactment of policy and politics within and across a range of public administration spaces. Offering reflections on the ethnographic experience of being there, the case discusses gaining access, defining a field, ethical behavior, data analysis, and presenting findings. The first site is a Parliamentary building of historic significance but used in a modern policy context. Politics is not overt, but power is exerted and discourse is highly political and the formal space is exclusive. In a town hall, stable physical boundaries delineate relationships between elected decision makers, their representatives, and observers. A history of who has been permitted to speak, and thus exert political power, is evident in the architecture. In contrast, a community space is more fluid, again influenced by history but also by neoliberal welfare reform policy. Here, the space is structured less by architecture and more by oral history and local knowledge that interacts in tension with an administrative Geographic Information System (G.I.S.). The G.I.S. map conveys order and precision, but politics is in evidence, and it is unclear who has the power to reinforce the liminal boundary. The different sites are analyzed using spatial theory and theories of governing at a distance to show how processes of inclusion and exclusion operate and to argue that governing also takes place at close range. Unpredictable policy effects are achieved variously by means of seduction, enrolment, and coercion that feature in these otherwise disparate spaces.