ePrints

Understanding governance: Ten years on

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Roderick Rhodes

Downloads

Full text for this publication is not currently held within this repository. Alternative links are provided below where available.

Abstract

The paper reassesses the argument in Understanding Governance (1997). The first section summarizes where we are now in the study of governance, reviewing briefly the key concepts of policy networks, governance, core executive, hollowing out the state and the differentiated polity. The second section engages with my critics with the aim of opening new directions of research. I concentrate on the key issues of: the context of policy networks, explaining change and the role of ideas, the decline of the state, rescuing the core executive, and steering networks. Under each heading, I sketch a decentred answer to the question of where we go from here. I argue the analysis of governance should focus on beliefs, practices, traditions and dilemmas. Copyright © 2007 SAGE Publications.

Publication metadata

Author(s): Rhodes RAW

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Organization Studies

Year: 2007

Volume: 28

Issue: 8

Pages: 1243-1264

ISSN (print): 0170-8406

ISSN (electronic): 1741-3044

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840607076586

DOI: 10.1177/0170840607076586

Altmetrics

Share