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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 - Basic Responsibilities of a Board and Its Members -- Chapter 2 - How to Operate Your Board -- Chapter 3 - How to Build Your Board -- Chapter 4 - How to Work with the CEO -- Chapter 5 - How to Ensure Quality Care -- Chapter 6 - How to Provide Fiscal Oversight -- Chapter 7 - How to Work with the Community -- Chapter 8 - The Board and Nonconventional Medicine -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1 - Sample Conflict of Interest Policy -- Appendix 2 - Sample Conflict of Interest Disclosure Statement -- Appendix 3 - Sample Board Member Performance Appraisal, Short Version -- Appendix 4 -Sample Board Member Performance Appraisal, Long Version -- Appendix 5 - Sample CEO Employment Contract -- Appendix 6 - CEO Separation Agreement -- Appendix 7 - Common Healthcare Abbreviations and Definitions -- Index -- About the Author.

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Democratic Governance examines the changing nature of the modern state and reveals the dangers these changes pose to democracy. Mark Bevir shows how new ideas about governance have gradually displaced old-style notions of government in Britain and around the world. Policymakers cling to outdated concepts of representative government while at the same time placing ever more faith in expertise, markets, and networks. Democracy exhibits blurred lines of accountability and declining legitimacy. Bevir explores how new theories of governance undermined traditional government in the twentieth century.

Provides a theoretical defence of situated agency located in the historical context of British political science; compares their approach to British political science with others including, post-structural and institutional analysis; and more. This book is useful to those in political theory, public policy, British politics, and British history