Governance in Modern Society

Introduction: multi-level and multi-actor governance.- I Effects of Government Institutions.- The comitology game: European policymaking with parliamentary involvement.- Institutional change in the emerging European polity.- The secret and cost of success: institutional change and policy change.- The swamp of Dutch politics: how the impact of modernization on political behavior is modified by institutional context.- Interactive decision making and representative democracy: institutional collisions and solutions.- Is mediation a suitable alternative to court trials? An assessment of institutional effects on the processing of disputes.- Institutionalism: state models and policy processes.- II Change of government institutions.- Restructuring a corporatist welfare state: managed liberalization and the role of the state, the social partners and the market in Dutch social security and labor market policy.- Administrative conditions to institutional politics: federalism in an unitary state.- Public governance in Europe: a historical-institutional tour d’horizon.- Information and communication technology and the redefinition of the functional and normative boundaries of government.- III Formation of government institutions.- The mobilization of bias revisited: institutional design, cultural bias and policy-oriented learning.- Interactive policy making as a serious alternative: Balancing between an open and closed approach.- Process Management.- Managing public-private partnerships: influencing processes and institutional context of public-private partnerships.- Legal institutions as systems of legal norms.- Contributors.