Part I. Evaluating and explaining public governance: general introdution 1. The state of public governance - MArk Bovens, Paul 't Hart and B. Guy Peters 2. Analysing governance success and failure in six European states - Mark Bovens, Paul 't Hart and B. Guy Peters Part II. Managing decline: Public policy and the steel sector Section editors: Geoffrey Dudley and Jeremy Richardson 3. Managing decline: governing national steel peroduction under economic adversity - Geffrey Dudley and Jeremy Richardson 4. France and the restructuring of the steel industry: heroic policies and everyday successes - Luisa Perrotti 5. Success and failure in the Germany steel industry: crisis and consensus 6. A 'dutch miracle in steel policy? Laissez-faire intervention, wage restrint and the evolution of Hoogovens - Hans Schenk 7. Steel restructuring in spain, 1979-95: the attrition game - Gabriel Saro Jauregui and Mikel Navarro Arancegui 8. Restructuring the swedish steel industry: learning through path dependency? - Jon Pierre 9. British steel and the british government: problematic learning as policy style - Geoffrey Dudley and Jeremy Richardson Part III. Managing reform: Public policy and the health sector Sector editor: Michael Moran 10. Managing reform: controlling the medical profession in an era of austerity - Michael Moran 11. Paradoxes of healthe care reform in France: state autonomy and policy paralysis - David Wilsford 12. Medical reform in Germany: The 1993 health care legislation as an impromptu success - Viola Burau 13. Controlling medical specialists in the netherlands: delegating the dirty work - Margo trappenburg and mariska de groot 14. The spanish state and the medical profession in primary health care: doctors, veto points and reform attempts - Ana Rico, Marc Balaguer and Pablo González Alvarez 15. Making health policy in sweden: the rise and fall of the 1994 family doctor scheme - Peter Garpenby 16. Reforming the medical profession in the United Kingdom, 1959-97: structural interests in health care - Stephen Harrison Part IV. Manging innovation: Public policy and the financial sector Section editor: Andreas Busch 17. Managing innovation: regulating the banking sector in a rapidly changing environment - Andreas Busch 18. Governing Frennch banking: regulatory reform and the crédit lyonnais fiasco - William D. Coleman 19. Banking supervision and deposit insurance in Germany, 1974-84: keeping the state at arm's length - Andreas Busch 20. Structural regulation of the banking industry in the netherlands: a shift of power, 1980-95 - Leo A. van Eerden 21. The liberalization of finance in spain: from interventionism to the market - Sofia A. Pérez 22. The liberalization of finance in spain: from interventionism to the market - Bent Sofus Tranoy 23. The transformation of financial regulation in the united kingdom: the berings case - Adam Tickell Part V. Managing crisis: HIV and the blood suply - Erik 24. Managing crisis: HIV and the blood suply - Erik 25. Crisis governance in France : the end of sectoral corporatism? - Monika Steffen 26. The case of HIV and blood supply in germany: programmatic failures and political successes - Patrick kenis 27. The dutch reaction to contaminated blood: an example of cooperative governance - Bert de Vroom 28. Coping with HIV transmission in spain: the case of blood control failure - Jacint Jordana 29. Protecting the swdish blood supply against HIV: crisis management without scandal - Erik Alback 30. HIV and the blood suply in the united kingdom: professionalization and pragmatism - Richard Freeman Part VI. Comparisons. conlusions, reflections 31. Patterns of governance: sectoral and national comparisons - Mark bovens, Paul 't hart, B. Guy Peters, Erik Alback, Andreas Busch, Geoffrey Dudley, Michael Moran and Jeremy Richardson 32. The state of governance in six European states - Mark boverns, Paul 't hart and B. Guy Peters