CONTENTS
1. Social-Political Governance: Introduction / Jan Kooiman (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands) = 1
Ⅰ. CONCEPTUALIZATIONS
2. Governing Failures and the Problem of Governability: Some Comments on a Theoretical Paradigm / Renate Mayntz (Max-Planck-Institute, K ＼ddoto ln, Germany) = 9
3. Modes of Govemance / Andrew Dunsire (University of York, Great Britain) = 21
4. Governance and Governability: Using Complexity, Dynamics and Diversity / Jan Kooiman (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands) = 35
Ⅱ. PREDICAMENTS
5. Lost Opportunity: The Case of Labour Market Management in the Republic of Ireland / Frric Royall (University of Limerick, Ireland) = 51
6. Public Policy Planning and the Problem of Governance: The Question of Education in Finland / Kirsti Stenvall (University of Tampere, Finland) = 63
7. Women's Emancipation as a Question of Governance: Actors, Institutions and the Room for Manoeuvre / Marijke Prins (Humanistic University, Utrecht, The ○○○ands) = 75
Ⅲ. EXPERIENCES
8. The Governance of Data Protection / Charles Raab (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) = 89
9. Environmental Regulation of Business: Options and Constraints for Communicative Governance / Martijtz van Vliet (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands) = 105
10. Public-Piivate Partnership: A Model for the Management of Public-Private Cooperation / Vincent Kouwenhoven (Private consultant, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) = 119
11. Dynamics and Room for Manoeuvre in Governance: The Channel Tunnel Decision in France and Britain / Mich ＼gravee le Breuillard (Universit ＼acutee de Lille Ⅱ, France) = 131
12. Governance between Legitimacy and Efficiency: Citizen Participation in the Belgian Fire Services / Geert Bouckaert (Catholic University Leuven, Belgium) = 145
13. Governance in Interaction: Public Tasks and Private Organisations / Herman Aquina (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands) ; Hans Bekke (University of Leiden, The
Netherlands) = 159
Ⅳ. PROSPECTS FOR REFORM
14. Public Management; from Imitation to Innovation / Les Metcalfe (European Institute for Public Administration, Maastricht, The Netherlands) = 173
15. Complexity, Governance and Dynamics: Conceptual Explorations of Public Network management / Walter Kickert (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands) = 191
16. Governance and the Problem of Representation in Public Administration: The Case of Finland / Ky ＼ddoteo sti Pekonen (University of Jyv ＼ddota skyla, Finland) = 205
17. Modes of Govemance and Administrative Change / Torben Beck Jørgensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) = 219
18. The Governance of Education: Britain and France / Roger Duclaud-Williams (University of Warwick, Great Britain) = 235
19. Findings, Speculations and Recommendations / Jan Kooiman (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands) = 249
ABOUT THE AUTHORS = 263
BIBLIOGRAPHY = 267
