New Modes of Governance:
Theory and Evidence (North, South, East and West)
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Jürgen R. Grote, PhD (Marie Curie Chair)
Room FSV 3067; e-mail: grote@fsv.cuni.cz (please contact me in case you
need further info)
Jinonice, 3019
Wednesday (fortnightly), 2.15 to 5.15 pm (with break) starting October 15, 2008
The course is open to students of all Msc and PhD programs delivered at the
Faculty of Social Sciences, namely Public and Social Policy, Sociology, Political
Science and Economics.
Regular participation reading of papers; individual and/or collective seminar
presentation; seminar paper after termination of course.
Comprehensive reader and complete syllabus will be made available at the
beginning of the course and will also be downloadable from Dr. Grote’s
webpage.
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Course description:
Governance has become one of the key concepts in political science and in adjacent disciplines. It
currently dominates scholarly research on the European Union, on domestic policy regimes, on
civil society involvement, and on sub-national policy-making. New Modes of Governance (NMG)
are said to combine an approach that is not primarily based on legislation and that incorporates
private actors in policy formulation. At least from a normative point of view, NMG are to combine
efficiency enhancement with democratic participation. While it has been this normative view
which has largely dominated the debate, systematic comparison of capacities for governance both
vertically (multilevel governance) and horizontally (different policy domains and territorial
polities) has only started recently to attract the interest of scholars. The outcome of these empirical
endeavours are often quite disappointing. Even if governance is recognized to represent a kind of
secular trend present everywhere in Europe, it turns out that the requisites for its emergence are
unequally distributed across the countries of the EU. For instance, NMG can be detected at
national layers in particular countries - but not in others. It can also be present in specific policy
domains - but not in others. It can emerge at the sub-national level of policy-making but be absent
at the domestic level – and vice versa. Finally, the requisites for NMG may entirely be lacking in
quite a number of territorial and functional instances or, at least, be hard to develop. This latter
situation has often been said to exist in parts of Southern and Eastern Europe. The seminar shall be
concerned, first of all, with outlining the constituent elements of NMG. In a second step, we shall
then present and discuss empirical cases drawn from recent international research initiatives
(NEWGOV, CONNEX and CINEFOGO) especially with a view to specific policy domains
(environment) and territorial settings (local/regional). In the centre of attention will be a discussion
of the requisites and of the vices and virtues of governance under conditions of different degrees of
modernization and of democratic consolidation. One of the questions to be addressed will be
whether governance is something that emerges from the bottom up within a particular polity or,
alternatively, that can be induced from outside by external institutions and incentives. The seminar
is addressed to students with some basic knowledge in comparative analysis and an interest in
inter-disciplinary problems. It will prepare the grounds for courses on processes of
Europeanization in Central and Eastern Europe and on network policies to be held during
subsequent terms.
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There will be a minimum of three to four texts per session. These texts are mandatory reading. After a
brief introduction by the course leader, the texts will be presented by participants (possibly in form of
Power Point Slides) and subsequently be discussed. About 30-45 minutes will be reserved for
presentation and discussion of each text.
Session 1 (15.10.2008):
The governance paradigm: where it comes from and how it is used
Session 2 (to be defined):
Governance in economics and economic sociology
Session 3 (12.11.2008):
Governance in politics and political science
Session 4 (26.11.2008):
European governance
Session 5 (10.12.2008):
Multilevel governance
Session 6 (07.01.2009):
The NEWGOV research program and selected applications
Essential readings*
1. General:
Mayntz, Renate 2003. From government to governance: Political steering in modern societies.
Summer Academy on IPP: Wuerzburg, September 7-11, 2003.
Schmitter, Philippe C. 1997. Defining, explaining and using the concept of governance.
Unpublished Manuscript. European University Institute and Stanford University, December
1997.
Brusis, Martin 2003. Devoloping Governance Capacity. A Review of Causes and Effects.
Strategy Paper for the Transformation Thinkers Conference; Berlin 30.11. – 5.12. 2003
2. Economics and economic sociology:
Schmitter, Philippe C. 1990. Sectors in Modern Capitalism: Modes of Governance and
Variations in Performance. In: Brunetta, R. And C. Dell’Aringa (eds.), Labour Relations and
Economic Performance. Houndsmills, London; The Macmillan Press; 3-39.
Streeck, Wolfgang and Philippe C. Schmitter 1985. Community, Market, States – and
Associations? The prospective contribution of interest governance to social order. In: Streeck,
W. and P.C. Schmitter (eds.) Private Interest Government; London, Sage; 1-29.
3. Politics and political science:
Jessop, Bob 2002. Governance and Metagovernance: On Reflexivity, Requisite Variety, and
Requisite Irony; unpublished manuscript (published as: Governance and Metagovernance: On
Reflexivity, Requisite Variety, and Requisite Irony. In: Heinelt, Hubert et.al., eds.; Participatory
Governance in a Multi-level Context. Opladen, Leske and Budrich; 33-58.)
Schmitter, Philippe C. 2002. Participation in Governance Arrangments: Is there any Reason to
Expect it will Achieve “Sustainable and Innovative Policies in a Multilevel Context“? in: Grote,
Jürgen R. And Bernard Gbikpi (eds.) Participatory Governance. Political and Societal
Implications. Opladen; Leske and Budrich; 51-70.
Kjaer, Anne Mette 2004. Governance (chp.1 & 8). Cambridge and Malden: Polity Press; 1-18;
188-205.
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4. European governance:
Commission of the European Communities 2001. European Governance. A White Paper;
Brussels, 25.7.2001; COM(2001) 428 final.
Kohler-Koch, Beate and Berthold Rittberger 2006. Review Article: The ‘Governance Turn’ in
EU Studies. In: JCMS 2006 Volume 44 Annual Review pp. 27–49.
Olsen, Johan P. 2008. EU governance – Where do we go from here? Arena Working Paper No.
10, May 2008.
5. Multilevel governance:
Benz, Arthur 2003. Multilevel governance in the European Union. In: Jachtenfuchs, Markus and
Beate Kohler-Koch (eds.) Europäische Integration, 2nd edition; Opladen: Leske and Budrich.
Grote, Jürgen R. 2008. Local Governance and Organized Civil Society. Paper presented at
Conference on “New forms of local governance and civil society”; CINEFOGO Workpackage
31N; University of Trento, Italy, 20-21 June 2008.
Hooghe, Liesbet and Gary Marks 2001. Types of Multi-Level Governance. In: European
Integration online Papers (EIoP) Vol. 5 (2001) N° 11.
6. New modes of governance:
Börzel, Tanja A. 2007. New Modes of Governance and Enlargement - The Paradox of Double
Weakness. NEWGOV Papers 12/D07.
NEWGOV 2004. The Scientific Objectives of the NEWGOV Project. A Revised Framework
(version 4; 2nd NEWGOV Consortium Conference). New Modes of Governance Integrated
Project Priority 7 – Citizens and Governance in the Knowledge-based Society; Project no. CIT1CT-2004-506392.
7. Critical accounts (on EU and New Modes of governance):
Kröger, Sandra 2008. Nothing but consultation. The place of organized civil society in EU
policy-making across policies. In: European Governance Papers No. C-08-03.
Smismans, Stijn 2006. New Modes of Governance and the Participatory Myth. In: European
Governance Papers No. N-06-01.
Relevant Web-Pages:
NEWGOV:
CONNEX:
CINEFOGO:
WORLDBANK:
BERTELSMANN:
OECD:
UNDP:
http://www.eu-newgov.org/index.asp
http://www.connex-network.org/
http://www.cinefogo.org/
http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/index.asp
http://www.bertelsmann-transformation-index.de/46.0.html?&L=1
http://www.oecd.org/department/0,2688,en_2649_34565_1_1_1_1_1,00.html
http://www.undp.org/governance/
Further readings:
Section 1:
Börzel, Tanja A. 1998. Organizing Babylon. On the different conceptions of policy networks. In:
Public Administration, Volume 76; 253-73.
Grote, Jürgen R. And Bernard Gbikpi (eds.) 2002. Participatory Governance. Political and
Societal Implications. Opladen; Leske and Budrich.
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Theory and Evidence (North, South, East and West)
Section 2:
Mayntz, Renate 2008. The Architecture of Multilevel Governance of Economic Sectors. MPIFG
Discussion Paper 07/13; Max Planck Institute for the Sudy of Societies, Cologne.
Lindberg, Leon N.; John L. Campbell and J. Rogers Hollingsworth 1991. Economic Governance
and the analysis of structural change in the American economy. In: Campbell, John L. et.al.
(eds.) Governance of the American Economy. Cambridge, New York, Sydney: Cambridge
University Press (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences); 3-34.
Section 3:
Schneider, Volker and Johannes M. Bauer 2008. Governance: Prospects of Complexity Theory
in Revisiting System Theory. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political
Science Association. Panel 33.26 Political Theory and Theories of Political Science. Chicago,
Illinois, 14 April 2007
Pierre, Jon and B. Guy Peters 2000. Goverance, Politics and the State. Houndsmills, London;
The Macmillan Press (especially Chapter on Perspectives on Governance (pp.11-70) and on
Models of Governance (pp. 71-160).
Jessop, Bob 2008. Multiscalar metagovernance in the European Union. In: Bob Jessop. State
Power. Cambridge and Malden; Polity Press; 198-224.
Section 4:
Commission of the European Communities 2002. Report from the Commission on European
Governance; Brussels, 11.12.2002; COM(2002) 705 final.
Kohler-Koch, Beate 2005. European Governance and System Integration. EUROGOV European Governance Papers No C-05-01.
Section 6:
Lane, David. Civil Society and the Imprint of State Socialism. In: Pleines, Heiko (ed.)
participation of Civil Society in New Modes of Governance. The Case of the New EU Member
States. NEWGOV Paper 24/D4; 7-16.
Pleines, Heiko Civil Society Groups from the Central and East European Member States in EU
Governance. A Missing Link; in: Pleines, Heiko (ed.) The Capacity of Central and East
European Interest Groups to Participate in EU Governance; NEWGOV Papers 24/D08a; 55-67.
Section 7:
Callaghan, Helen 2008. How Multilevel Governance effects the Clash of Capitalisms. MPIFG
Discussion Paper 08/5. Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne.
Davies, Jonathan S. 2006. The limits of partnership: an exit-action strategy for local democratic
inclusion. Paper presented at conference on “Democratic network governance in Europe”;
University of Roskilde; 2-3 November 2006.
McDonald, Catherine and Greg Marston 2001. Fixing the Niche? Rhetoric of the community
sector in the neo-liberal welfare regime. Paper presented at Workshop on Social
Entrepreneurship: whose responsibility is it anyway? Centre of Full Employment and Equity
and Department of Social Work; University of Newcastle; 21 November 2001.
* texts in italics are available in the download area:
http://www.ceses.cuni.cz/CESES-92.html
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