Matariki Reading List 2021: Kia whakahauti e ngā o Waipuna-ā-rangi

1/7/2021

Each Matariki I share my favourite readings on a particular topic or research area in public management. This year the Poneketanga korero has been all about co-governance. Here are some critical readings on governance; its philosophy and anglo-origins, some definitions, the concept of networked and collaborative governance and how governance interacts with public policy.

Philosophy of Governance

Olson, M. (1974), The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Ostrom, E. (1990), Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Peters, B.G. and J. Pierre (2004), ‘Multi-level governance and democracy: A Faustian bargain?’, in I. Bache and M. Flinders (eds), Multi-level Governance, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 75–92.
Pierre, J. (2000), Debating Governance, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Pollitt, C. and G. Bouckaert (2004), Public Management Reforms, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Pollitt, C. and P. Hupe (2011), ‘Talking about government: The role of magic concepts’, Public Management Review, 13 (5), 641–658.
Rhodes, R.A.W. (1997), Understanding Governance, Buckingham: Open University Press.
Rhodes, R.A.W. (2000), ‘The governance narrative: Key findings and lessons from the ESRC’s Whitehall Programme’, Public Administration, 78 (2), 345–364.
Sørensen, E. and P. Triantafillou (2009), The Politics of Self-governance, London: Ashgate.
Torfing, J., B.G. Peters, J. Pierre and E. Sørensen (2012), Interactive Governance: Advancing the Paradigm, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Treib, O., H. Bähr and G. Falkner (2005), ‘Modes of governance: A note towards conceptual clarification’, European Governance Papers no. N-05-02.
Williamson, O.E. (1996), The Mechanisms of Governance, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Westminster origins

Bevir, M. and R.A.W. Rhodes (2003), Interpreting British Governance, London: Routledge.
Considine, M. and J.M. Lewis (2003), ‘Bureaucracy, network, or enterprise? Comparing governance models in Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, and New Zealand’, Public Administration Review, 63 (2), 131–140.
Crozier, M., S.P. Huntington and J. Watanuki (1975), The Crisis of Democracy, New York: New York University Press.
Habermas, J. (1975), Legitimation Crisis, Boston, MA: Beacon Press, RWP10-023, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government.

Governance Definitions

Grindle, M. (2010), ‘Good governance: The inflation of a concept’, Faculty Working Paper Series no.
Kooiman, J. (ed.) (1993), Modern Governance, London: Sage.
March, J.G. and J.P. Olsen (1995), Democratic Governance, New York: Free Press.

Network and collaborative governance

Agranoff, R. and M. McGuire (1998), ‘Multi-network management: Collaboration and the hollow state in local economic policy’, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 8 (1), 67–91.
Agranoff, R. and M. McGuire (1999), ‘Managing in network settings’, Review of Policy Research, 16 (1), 18–41.
Agranoff, R. and M. McGuire (2001), ‘Big questions in public network management research’, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 11 (3), 295–326.
Agranoff, R. and M. McGuire (2004), Collaborative Public Management: New Strategies for Local Governments, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
Ansell, C.K. and A. Gash (2008), ‘Collaborative governance in theory and practice’, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 18 (4), 543–571.
Considine, M. (2002), ‘The end of the line? Accountable governance in the age of networks, partnerships and joined-up services’, governance, 15 (1), 21–40.
Freeman, J. (1997), ‘Collaborative governance in the administrative state’, UCLA Law Review, 45, 1–98.
Gray, B. (1989), Collaborating: Finding Common Ground for Multiparty Problems, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Healey, P. (1997), Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies, Vancouver: UBC Press.
Heclo, H. (1978), ‘Issue networks and the executive establishment’, in A. King (ed.), The Political System, Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, pp. 87–107.
Keast, R., M.P. Mandell, K. Brown and G. Woolcock (2004), ‘Network structures: Working differently and changing expectations’, Public Administration Review, 64 (3), 363–371.
Kickert, W.J.M., E.-H. Klijn and J.F.M. Koppenjan (eds) (1997), Managing Complex Networks, London: Sage.
Marks, G. (1996), ‘An actor-centred approach to multi-level governance’, Regional and Federal Studies, 6(2), 20–40.
Marsh, D. and R.A.W. Rhodes (eds) (1992), Policy Networks in British Government, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mayntz, R. (1993a), ‘Modernization and the logic of interorganizational networks’, in J. Child, M. Crozier and R. Mayntz (eds), Societal Change between Markets and Organization, Aldershot: Avebury, pp. 3–18.
Meier, K.J. and L.J. O’Toole (2001), ‘Managerial strategies and behavior in networks: A model with evidence from US public education’, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 11 (3), 271–294.
Meuleman, L. (2008), Public Management and the Metagovernance of Hierarchies, Networks and Markets, Heidelberg: Physica Verlag.
Provan, K.G. and H.B. Milward (2001), ‘Do networks really work? A framework for evaluating public sector organizational networks’, Public Administration Review, 61 (4), 414–423.

Governing public policymaking

Innes, J.E. and D.E. Booher (2003), ‘Collaborative policymaking: Governance through dialogue’, in M.A. Hajer and H. Wagenaar (eds), Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 33–59.
Kenis, P. and V. Schneider (1991), ‘Policy networks and policy analysis: Scrutinizing a new analytical toolbox’, in B. Marin and R. Mayntz (eds), Policy Networks, Frankfurt am Main: Campus, pp. 25–59.
Marks, G. (1993), ‘Structural policy and multi-level governance in the EC’, in A. Cafruny and G. Rosenthal (eds), The State of the European Community: The Maastricht Debate and Beyond, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, pp. 391–411.
Marsh, D. (ed.) (1998), Comparing Policy Networks, Buckingham: Open University Press.
Milward, H.B. and K.G. Provan (2006), A Manager’s Guide to Choosing and Using Collaborative Networks, Networks and Partnerships Series, Washington, DC: IBM Center for the Business of Government.
Raab, J. and H.B. Milward (2003), ‘Dark networks as problems’, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 13 (4), 413–439.
Skelcher, C. and J. Torfing (2010), ‘Improving democratic governance through institutional design: Civic participation and democratic ownership in Europe’, Regulation and Governance, 4 (1), 71–91.
World Bank (2007), A Decade for Measuring the Quality of Governance, Washington, DC: World Bank.