Thursday, April 19, 2012

Levi-Faur: The Oxford Handbook of Governance

David Levi-Faur (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem - Political Science) has published The Oxford Handbook of Governance (Oxford Univ. Press 2012). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:
The Oxford Handbook of Governance presents an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-art analysis of the social science literature on governance. The volume presents the core concepts and knowledge that have evolved in the study of governance in different levels and arenas of politics and policymaking. In doing so it establishes itself as the essential point of reference for all those studying politics, society, and economics from a governance perspective. The volume comprises fifty-two chapters from leaders in the field. The chapters are organized in nine sections dealing with topics that include governance as the reform of the state, democratic governance, European governance, and global governance.