Social-political governance: introduction - Jan Kooiman (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands) Conceptualizations Governing failures and the problem of governability: some comments on a theoretical paradigm - Renate Mayntz(max-planck-institute, koln,Germany) Modes of governance - Andrew Dunsire(university of York, Great Britain) Governance and governability: using complexity, dynamics and diversity - Jan Kooiman (Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands) Predicaments Lost opportunity: the case of labour market management in the republic of Ireland - Frederic Royall( university of Limerick, Ireland) Public policy planning and the problem of governance: the question of education in Finland - Kirsti Stenvall( university of tampere, Finland) Women's emancipation as a question of governance: actors, institutions and the room for Manoeuvre - Marijke Prinn( humanistic university, Utrecht, the Netherlands) Experiences The governance of data protection - Charles Raab( university of edinburgh, Scotland) Environmental regulation of business: options and constraints for communicative governance - Martijn van Vliet( erasmus university Rotterdam, the Netherlands) Public-private partnership: a model for the management of public-private cooperation - Vincent Kouwenhoven( private consultant, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Dynamics and room for manoeuvre in governance: the channel tunnel decision in France and Britain - Michele Breuillard( universite de lille II, France) Governance between legitimacy and efficiency: citizen participation in the Belgian fire services - Geert Bouckaert( catholic university Leuven, Belgium) Governance in interaction: public tasks and private organisations Governance in interaction: public tasks and private organisations - Herman Aquina (University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands) and Hans Bekke(university of Leiden, the Netherlands) Prospects for reform Public management; from imitation to innovation - Les Metcalfe(european institute for public administration, Maastricht, the Netherlands) Complexity, governance and dynamics: conceptual explotations of public network management - Walter Kickert (erasmus university Rotterdam, the Netherlands) Governance and the problem of representation in public administration: the case of Finland - Kyosti Pekonen( university of Jyvaskyla, Finland) Modes of governance and administrative change - Torben Beck Jorgensen(university of Copenhagen, Denmark) Evaluations The governance of education: Britain and France - Roger Duclaud-Williams (university of Warwick, Great Britain) Findings, speculations and recommendations - Jan Kooiman (erasmus university Rotterdam, the Netherlands)