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SOG News - June 2000
Recent Pulbications from SOG Members
Debating Governance: Authority, Steering, and Democracy
Editor: Jon Pierre, Oxford University Press, Oxford, March
2000
This volume brings together scholars of governance in different
subfields of political science to critically assess the contributions
of governance theory in their respective field of expertise. The
volume covers democratic theory (Paul Hirst), comparative politics
(B. Guy Peters), public administration (Rod Rhodes), political
economy (Andrew Gamble), urban politics (Gerry Stoker), cybernetic
theory (Jan Kooiman) international political economy (Anthony
Payne), international relations (James N. Rosenau), and European
Union studies (Alberta Sbragia). The volume also has an introductory
and a concluding chapter prepared by the Editor.
Alasdair Roberts had an article 'The Impact of Retrenchment
on the Operation of Canadian Freedom of Information Laws' published
in Canadian Public Administration vol. 42 no. 4 (Winter
1999).
Governance, Politics and the State
Jon Pierre and B. Guy Peters, Macmillan, London
and St. Martin's Press, New York, 2000.
This book reviews theories of governance and applies them to
the contemporary state. The perspective is a broad, comparative
analysis of recent developments primarily in the western world
but also with respect to the third world. The book advances a
state-centered view on governance; the authors argue that although
networks and other systems of governance may be gaining importance,
the state remains the undisputed center of political power. Also,
it is argued that the growing significance of global and transnational
institutions and also of subnational actors in the international
arena, these developments do not so much entail a decline of the
state as a transformation of state structures and political strategies.
Jeremy Moon has had the following articles published:
'The Dynamics of Governmental Activity: a long-run analysis of
the changing scope and profile of Australian ministerial portfolios',
Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 34, 1999,
pp 149-167 (with Anthony Sayers).
'The Australian Public Sector and New Governance', Australian
Journal of Public Administration, vol. 58, 1999, pp 112-120.
'New Governance in Australian Schools: a place for business
social responsibility?' Australian Journal of Public Administration,
vol. 55, 1998, pp. 55-67 with Richard Sochacki.
John A. Rohr reports the publication of the following article,
'Current Canadian Constitutionalism and the 1865 Confederation
Debate' in The American Review of Canadian Studies, vol.
28, no. 8, pp. 413-444.
The Enterprise University: Governance and Reinvention in Australian
Higher Education
Mark Considine and Simon Marginson, Cambridge University
Press
The book follows a three-year study of governance reforms in
17 universities and its central theme is the growth of executive
management systems, the decline in accountability, the rise of
budget and private legal structures as a means to manage university
activities and the decline of traditional forms of academic governance
such as Academic Boards, discipline-based departments and representative
structures at faculty level. Traditional forms of collegial governance
are found to be totally unsuited to the demands of contemporary
institutions. These institutions are seen to 'mimic' the same
intrusive policy systems used upon them by government and the
study shows a significant decline in the university's capacity
to self-organise or define its own identity.
LA Contractualisation Dans Les Pays Industrialisés Depuis
1980
Editor: Yvonne Fortin, 1999, L'Harmattan, Paris
Collection 'Logiques Juridiques'
The book is based on the contributions of the SOG conference
which took place in Paris in December 1996. Some chapters are
in English, others are in French.
Anthony Perl had an article 'Internationalized Policy Environments
and Policy Network Analysis' published in Political Studies,
vol. 47, no. 4, 1999, pp. 691-709 (with William D. Coleman).
Citizens and the New Governance - Beyond New Public Management
Editor: L.Rouban 1999, 250 pp., IOS Press - Ohmsha Ltd.,
Amsterdam, Tokyo.
Volume 10 in IIASM
ISBN: 0 9673355 3 1
This book addresses the relationship of citizenship and public
manage-ment in Europe. After fifteen years of State reform, it
is time for an overall discussion of the theoretical and empirical
impact and limits of New Public Management, as one of the latest
re-orientations in public administration, on the practice of citizenship.
All the authors have pointed out the tension between a focus on
improvement of state bureaucracies, on the one hand, and the involvement
of citizens in the co-production of policies on the other. They
point to a fundamental change that is taking place: the importance
of state apparatuses for the development and sustainability of
viable societies is being de-emphasised and special attention
to 'governance' is now taking over the central place, that for
so long has been occupied by attention to 'government'. Through
the co-production of public policies by citizens and public authorities
working together, a new civil society is emerging. This book highlights
the fact that the re-invention of the citizen is of crucial importance
to public administrative practice, as well as to the various public
administration disciplines in Europe.
 
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