YANG, Kaifeng

Responsiveness in network governance : revisiting a fundamental concept : symposium introduction - Armonk, NY : M. E. Sharpe, December 2007

The increasing importance of network governance challenges researchers to rethink the meaning of responsiveness in the theory and practice of public administration. This article, as an introduction to a mini-symposium on this topic, presents an overview of the concept, the theme, and the symposium. It briefly reviews the concept of responsiveness in recent public administration theories, outlines how network governance affects our thinking of responsiveness, and introduces the four symposium articles