Effective Governance and the Political Economy of Coordination

✍ Scribed by Dan Greenwood

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 308
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a conceptual and methodological approach for researchers evaluating governance and policy in the face of complexity, and demonstrates the application of this approach across different governance and policy contexts. It fills a significant gap in the literature on governance, and proposes a theoretical focus on coordination to enable the assessment of multi-tier, cross-sector governance institutions and policy. It also introduces a range of applications for the proposed approach, including two case studies of governance and policy for the built environment and health services. The book introduces, analyses and draws from a range of perspectives in political economy, political science, policy analysis and evaluation. It also engages with longstanding debates in political economy about states and markets, which are largely overlooked by political science analyses of coordination challenges in governance. The book will appeal to scholars and students of governance, public policy and political science.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 The Need for Governance Evaluation
1.2 Heterodox Political Economy
1.2.1 Mises, Hayek and Classical Liberalism
1.2.2 The Bloomington School
1.3 Outline of the Book
References
2 Governance, Markets and Institutional Analysis
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Political Science and Policy Studies
2.3 Governance and Networks
2.4 Neoclassical Economics
2.5 Public Choice and Institutional Evaluation
2.6 A Turn to Heterodoxy
2.7 Summary
References
3 The Challenge of Coordination
3.1 Complexity
3.2 Markets and Knowledge
3.3 Entrepreneurship
3.4 Policymaking and Coordination
3.4.1 Defining Goals
3.4.2 Balancing and Delivering Goals
3.5 General Rules and the Promotion of Trust
3.6 The Contingencies of Policy Evaluation
References
4 Policy Goals and Knowledge
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Values and Discovery
4.3 The Challenge of Shaping Outcomes
4.4 Human Needs
4.5 Equal Opportunity
4.6 Autonomy
4.7 Environmental Sustainability
4.8 Summary
References
5 Coordination Beyond the Market
5.1 Networks and Knowledge
5.2 Policy Goals and Processes of Discovery
5.3 Social Coordination Beyond the Market
5.4 Democratic Coordination
5.5 Policy Entrepreneurship
5.6 Summary
References
6 Scales of Governance
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The Challenge of Second Order Coordination: Moving Beyond Hayek
6.3 Private Property Rights and the Coase-Inspired Response
6.4 Institutional Pluralism and Polycentricity
6.5 Institutional Exit Rights and Competition
6.6 Democracy and the Second Order Task
6.7 Governance and Coordination: A Research Agenda
References
7 Evaluating Coordinative Effectiveness
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Assessing Coordination Within Governance: Established Approaches
7.2.1 Defining Coordination
7.2.2 Coordination and Inter-Organisational Theory
7.2.3 Vertical and Horizontal Coordination
7.2.4 Process Criteria for Coordination
7.2.5 Dynamic Coordination
7.2.6 Coordination and Related Concepts
7.2.7 Implementation and Outcomes
7.2.8 Networks and Coordination
7.3 Foundations for Evaluation
7.4 Coordination, Complexity and Outcomes
7.5 Methods
References
8 Case Studies
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Policy and Standards for Low and Zero Carbon Homes
8.3 Governance Reforms in the National Health Service 2012: The Case of Diabetes Care
References
9 Conclusion
Name Index
Subject Index