Comparative Governance : Rediscovering the Functional Dimension of Governing (Hardcover)

Preface; 1. The governance problem; 2. The theory of governance; 3. Decision-making: the essence of governing; 4. Governance and comparative politics; 5. The institutional politics of intergovernmental relationships; 6. Implementation, administration and governance; 7. Governance failure, functional failure and state failure; 8. The change of governance and the governance of change; 9. Conclusions: governance, functionalism and comparative politics; References; Index.