Traditional forms of top-down government are being challenged by the growing complexity and fragmentation of social and political life and the need to mobilize and activate the knowledge, ideas, and resources of private stakeholders.
In response to this important challenge there has been a persistent proliferation of interactive forms of public governance that bring together a plethora of public and private actors in collaborative policy arenas.
This book explores how these new forms of interactive governance are working in practice and analyses their role and impact on public policy making in different policy areas and in different countries. The need for facilitating, managing and giving direction to interactive policy arenas is also addressed through empirical analyses of different forms of metagovernance that aim to govern interactive forms of governance without reverting to traditional forms of hierarchical command and control. Finally, the normative implications of interactive policy making are assessed through studies of the democratic problems and merits associated with interactive policy making.
Keith Baker is lecturer in Politics, Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University, United Kingdom. His research interests include the governance of complex technical systems, energy policy, public sector procurement and public-private partnering.
Mark Considine is Professor of Political Science and Dean of Arts, University of Melbourne. His research interests include public sector reform, local employment and economic development, network governance and policy design theory.
Jurian Edelenbos is Professor of Public Administration, Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Scientific Director of IHS (International Housing and Urban Management Studies). His research interests include water governance, network management, citizen engagement, trust and control, knowledge co-production, and institutional innovation.
Anders Esmark is Associate Professor in Public Organisation and Policy, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research interests include new forms of governance, Europeanisation and political communication.
Trine Fotel is Assistant Professor in Public Administration and Public Policy, Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research interests include local government reforms, regional policy and planning, democracy and interactive governance.
Mirjam Kars is a senior local government researcher. Her expertise and areas of interest include multi-level governance, the EU, international political economy, and the governance of utility sectors. Her research focuses mainly on European cooperation regarding utility sectors and its consequences for policies and actors at the European, national, and domestic level.
Erik-Hans Klijn is Professor in the Department of Public Administration at Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research and teaching activities focus on complex decision-making and management in networks, institutional design and Public Private Partnerships and branding and media influences on governance processes.
Joop Koppenjan is Professor of Public Administration at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is senior staff member of the Netherlands Institute of Governance and member of Trail (The Netherlands research school of Transport, Infrastructure and Logistics). His research is focussed on governance of complex multi-actor situations.
Paul Krummenacher is founding partner and CEO of Frischer Wind, a company that is specialised in facilitating and mediating development and clarification processes in companies, institutions and government bodies and in the public sector in Switzerland.
Jenny M Lewis is Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy, Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University, Denmark. Her research interests include power and ideas in the policy process, new forms of governance, and professions and disciplines.
Louis Meuleman is Research Fellow at the Free University, Amsterdam; senior lecturer at Nyenrode Business University, Breukelen; director of the TransGov project, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam. National expert at DG Environment, European Commission. His research interests include metagovernance and sustainability (meta)governance.
Simona Piattoni is Professor of European Union Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria. Her research interests include multi-level governance, informal and personalistic politics, clientelism.
Gerry Stoker is Professor of Governance and Politics at the University of Southampton, UK and Director of the Centre for Citizenship, Globalisation and Governance. His research interests include: governance, anti-politics, civic engagement, welfare reform and behaviour change.
Nico van der Heiden is Senior Project Manager at the Institute for Political Science and at the Centre for Democracy Studies at the University of Zurich. He is also Lecturer at the University of Lucerne and at the University for Applied Sciences, Lucerne. He studied Political Science, Economics, and Media Science at the University of Zurich, from which he also gained his PhD in 2009. Previously, he has held positions as Research Assistant at the Universities of Zurich and Lucerne, and as Visiting Scholar at the Institut National de la Recherche; Scientifique Urbanisation, Culture et Société in Montréal. He is currently carrying out research on urban and metropolitan governance, the international activities of sub-national entities, and new forms of participation in established democracies.
Haiko van der Voort is an Assistant Professor of public administration at Delft University of Technology. He has a Masters degree in Public Administration at Leiden University. He teaches organisation theory and decision making theory at Bachelor and Masters level to professionals and elective students.
Ingmar van Meerkerk is a PhD student at the Department of Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. His research interests include legitimacy of governance networks, complexity management, boundary spanning, citizen participation and institutional innovations.
Åsa Casula Vifell is researcher in political science at Södertörn University, Institute for Contemporary History and Stockholm University, Department of Political Science. Her research interests include transnational democracy, Europeanisation, public administration, and decision theory.
