Networked Governance New Research Perspectives [Paperback]

This edited volume seeks to explore established as well as emergent forms of governance by combining social network analysis and governance research. In doing so, contributions take into account the increasingly complex forms which governance faces, consisting of different  types of actors (e.g. individuals, states, economic entities, NGOs, IGOs), instruments (e.g. law, suggestions, flexible norms) and arenas from the local up to the global level, and which more and more questions theoretical models that have focused primarily on markets and hierarchies. The topics addressed in this volume are processes of coordination, arriving at and implementing decisions taking place in network(ed) (social) structures; such as governance of work relations, of financial markets, of innovation and politics. These processes are investigated and discussed from sociologists, political scientists and economists viewpoints. Introduction: Networked Governance: Taking Networks Seriously.- Part I: Networked Governance: General Issues.- Part II: Types, Processes and Limits of Networked Governance.- Part III: Investigating Networked Governance: Methodological Approaches.- Part IV: Conclusions.

Prof. Dr. Betina Hollstein studied sociology at Philipps Universit?t Marburg and at the Free University, Berlin. She received her doctorate degree at the Free University, Berlin. Hollstein has been lecturer and researcher at the Universities in Berlin (Free University, Humboldt University), Munich and Mannheim, before she was appointed as professor of sociology at the University of Hamburg. Currently Betina Hollstein is professor of sociology at the University of Bremen. She is acting director of the SOCIUM - Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy at the University of Bremen. Besides, she is a member of the executive board of the German Sociological Association and a member of the board of directors of the International Network for SolÑ