Part I: Introduction 1: From "Big Government" to "Big Governance?" - David Levi-Faur 2: Governance as a Political Theory - B. Guy Peters 3: Waves of Governance - Rod Rhodes 4: The Many Faces of Governance: Adaptation? Transformation? Both? Neither? - Laurence Lynn 5: New Governance as Regulatory Governance - Orly Lobel 6: Governance: An Interdisciplinary Perspective - Peer Zumbansen Part II: Theoretical Lenses 7: Governance Networks - Jacob Torfing 8: Information and Governing: Cybernetic Models of Governance - B. Guy Peters 9: Governance and Complexity - Volker Schneider 10: Good Governance - Bo Rothstein 11: Governance and Learning - Fabrizio Gilardi and Claudio Radaelli 12: Experimentalist Governance - Charles Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin Part III: Governance and the Reform of the State 13: Governance and Institutional Flexibility - Jon Pierre 14: New Public Management and Governance: a Comparison - Erik Hans Klijn 15: Governance and Innovation in the Public Sector - Eva Sorensen 16: Governance and State Structures - Niamh Hardiman 17: New governance and policy instruments: Are Governments Going 'Soft'? - Amos Zehavi 18: Governance & Administrative Reforms - Tom Christensen and Per Lægreid 19: Governance and Patronage - Matthew Flinders 20: Governance and State Capacity - Felicity Matthews 21: The Impact of Governance - Erik Hans Klijn, Arwin van Buuren, and Jurian Edelenbos Part IV: Actors, Strategies and Governance Styles 22: New Governance or Old Governance? A Policy Style Perspective - Jeremy Richardson 23: NGOs: Between Advocacy, Service Provision and Regulation - Todd Beer,Tim Bartley, and Wade T. Roberts 24: Actors of Knowledge - Diane Stone Part V: Economic Governance 25: The Governance of Markets: On Generating Trust in Transactions - Frans Van Waarden 26: Governance after the Crisis - Graham Wilson 27: Modes of Economic Governance: The Dynamics of Governance at the National and Firm Level - Dieter Plehwe 28: The Governance of Central Banks - Ellen E. Meade Part VI: Governance of Risks 29: Risk and Governance - Elizabeth Fisher 30: Governance of Science and Technology - Susana Borrás 31: The Governance of Global Climate Change - Thomas Bernauer and Lena Schaffer Part VII: Democratic Governance 32: Participatory Governance: From Theory to Practice - Frank Fischer 33: Modes of Democratic Governance - Amit Ron 34: The New Citizenship and Governance: Alternative Intersections - Susan Phillips 35: Collaborative Governance - Chris Ansell 36: The Democratic Quality of Collaborative Governance - Yannis Papadopoulos 37: Participatory Governance in Public Health: Choice, but no Voice - Yael Yishai 38: A Return to Governance in the Law of the Workplace - Cynthia Estlund 39: Governance and Voluntary Regulation - Colin Provost 40: E-Governance and E-Democracy: Questioning Technology-centered Categories - Eran Fisher 41: The Fifth Estate: A New Governance Challenge - William Dutton 42: The Governance of Privacy - Abraham L. Newman Part VIII: European Governance 43: The European Union - A Unique Governance Mix? - Tanja A. Borzel 44: Multi Level Governance in the European Union - Ian Bache 45: Institutional Change in European Governance: The Commission´s Implementing Powers and the European Parliament, European University Institute - Adrienne Héritier and Catherine Moury 46: EU External Governance and Europeanization Beyond the EU - Frank Schimmelfennig Part IX: Global Governance 47: Governance and Global Policy - William W. Coleman 48: Governance, International Order, and World Order - Arie Kacowicz 49: Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood - Thomas Risse 50: Governmentality in Global Governance - Alexandria Jayne Innes and Brent J. Steele 51: Global Governance as Multi Governance - Michael Zürn 52: Reordering the World: transnational regulatory governance and its challenges - Kerstin Sahlin and Marie-Laure Djelic