Cognitive dissonance in evidence‐based sustainability policy? Reflections based on governance [PDF]
, 2012 Evidence‐based policy making has become popular in political circles, as it promises an indisputable, ‘true’ knowledge base for policies. The call for more ‘evidence’ is especially loud in environmental and sustainability politics.
Meuleman, Louis
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The relationship between government and civil society: a neo-Gramscian framework for analysis [PDF]
, 2016 This paper presents a neo-Gramscian framework for the analysis of the relationship between government and civil society. We argue that the influence of ‘post-traditional’ theories of modernisation on ‘networks’ and ‘network society’ is crucial in ...
De Rynck, Filip +2 more
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The impact of central government steering and local network dynamics on the performance of mandated service delivery networks: the case of the Primary Health Care networks in Flanders [PDF]
, 2013 This paper focuses on the impact of central – local relations on the performance of local service delivery networks set up by central government. Analyzing network literature leaves us with some questions about the impact of coordination strategies of ...
De Rynck, Filip +2 more
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institutional innovation from the bottom up? [PDF]
, 2019 A sustainable economy fulfills societal needs in a fundamentally different way to the current economic system. Improvements to the efficiency of existing technologies or practices appear insufficient for achieving sustainable development within the ...
Antoni-Komar, Irene +10 more
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From network governance to metagovernance
, 2023 Inter-organizational networks have become the de-facto organization structure for the delivery of large projects. This chapter describes a three-layered framework for the governance of these networks, from the investor, via intermediate governance levels to the individual network for the delivery of a project.
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Restoring Order in Global Health Governance: Do Metagovernance Norms Affect Interorganizational Convergence? CES Open Forum Series #23, 2014-2015 [PDF]
, 2014 This paper theorizes about the convergence of international organizations in global health governance, a field of international cooperation that is commonly portrayed as particularly hit by institutional fragmentation.
Holzscheiter, Anna
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Territory, Politics, Governance and Multispatial Metagovernance [PDF]
Territory, Politics, Governance, 2016 AbstractThis article interrogates the concepts in this journal's title and, drawing on the strategic-relational approach in social theory, explores their interconnections. This conceptual re-articulation is then contextualized in regard to the European Union (EU) as a political regime that serves as a real-time laboratory for experiments in government ...
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Metagovernance and the Role of Cultural Norms in the Regulation of Foreign Direct Investment: Trans-Tasman FDI Regimes [PDF]
, 2011 Australia and New Zealand provide a unique set of comparators with which to examine similarities and differences in approaches to the regulation of foreign direct investment (FDI).
Mahony, Greg, Sadleir, Chris
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The metagovernance of internet governance
, 2021 In this chapter, the author leverages the framework of metagovernance to functionally differentiate the private and multistakeholder internet governance regime and the multilateral internet governance regime. The analysis shows how both regimes operate with functionally narrow remits that are shaped by their respective guiding norms.
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Introduction: Failed! The Sociological Analysis of Failure
SociologicaIn recent years the social sciences have been paying closer attention to failure, to its manifestations in the contemporary world and to the modalities of dealing with it both in theory and in practice. An emergent and interdisciplinary field of analysis
Filippo Barbera, Ian Rees Jones
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