Public managers can, to a certain extent, choose between various mana-ment paradigms
which are provided by public and business administration scholars and by politicians as …

This paper introduces two concepts-interactive governance and governability-with a view to
exploring their applicability for assessing the governance of natural resource systems …

In this paper a start is made in developing a conceptual model for the governability of a
particular societal system based upon the (inter) active perspective on governance …

This chapter is not about governance in general. There are several introductions available
giving a fair picture of the many approaches to the concept (eg Schuppert 2005; Kjær 2004; …

The coordination of policy networks, or network governance, poses threats and opportunities
for democracy. Against the norms of liberal democracy, multi‐actor partnerships do not fare …

'Participation'has become a mantra and is common practice in governance. Yet only
preliminary efforts have been made to examine how participatory and deliberative designs …

The aim of the article is to discuss how and to what extent co-creation has the capacity to
strengthen democratic legitimacy. By distinguishing between output-based and input-based …

The shift from government to governance has become a starting point for many studies of
contemporary policy-making and democracy. Practices of Freedom takes a different …

Let's pretend there's a way of getting through into it, somehow, Kitty. Let's pretend the glass
has got all soft like gauze, so that we can get through. Why, it's turning into a sort of mist now …

Governments seem to be trapped in a legitimacy paradox. While politicians and public
managers, especially on the local level, increasingly initiate public participation to enhance …