Understanding Governance: Ten Years On

Rhodes, R. A. W.

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“…Each actor participates in, responds to or counteracts an emerging niche network in different ways and with different purposes, holding different interpretations and interests in the situations across which the niche develops, and offering or withholding resources of varying significance to the future directions of niche development. Not all actors enter into these negotiations equally: some are able to exercise greater influence owing to their resource attributes, experience, institutional positions, and connections with other influential actors, all relative to the task in hand; but neither does any single actor, such as an industrial lobby, or a government department, have sufficient power to force through decisions, strategies, and implementation activities unilaterally (Stoker, 1998;Rhodes, 1997).…”

Section: The Politics Of Empowerment As a Discursive Processmentioning

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What is protective space? Reconsidering niches in transitions to sustainability

2012

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Section: The Politics Of Empowerment As a Discursive Processmentioning

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What is protective space? Reconsidering niches in transitions to sustainability

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“…3 In part they offer an antidote to the 'hollowing out' of the state (Rhodes 2007, Rhodes 2000, Di Francesco 2001. 4 They also seek to address the policy co-dependence that results from an increasing government reliance on service-providing not-for-profit organisations (NFPOs) and the corresponding reliance of service-providing NFPOs upon government contracts for their income.…”

Section: Compacts As Relational Governancementioning

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“…The contrasting narrative in former Eastern Bloc countries centres on the re-establishment of civil society structures and norms following decades of autocratic rule, the abrupt dismantling of centrally planned and coordinated state services and the subsequent capitulation to a form of market capitalism often unconstrained by the formal checks and balances usually found in mature market economies (See Bullain and Toftisova 2005). 4 The 'hollowing out' thesis advanced by Rhodes, Di Francesco and others describes a state that has moved beyond the logics of 'command and control' to a greater reliance on networks and 'diplomacy' (Rhodes 2007). The hollowed-out state is characterised by external dependence and internal fragmentation that both weaken the central organising capacity of the state and challenges the executive's ability to 'steer' (Rhodes 2000: 350, Di Francesco 2001.…”

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An Australian National Compact - Something old, something new?

Butcher¹,

Casey²,

Dalton³

2012

Nonprofit Policy Forum

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The Australian Labor Party (ALP) formed government under Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in 2007 promising to consult with the not-for-profit sector on the development of a national compact. It was the government's aim to forge a new settlement with the sector after eleven years of Liberal/National Coalition government during which contractual governance rather than relational governance was the norm. The provenance of the National Compact, launched in March 2010, can be traced back to similar framework documents for inter-sectoral cooperation in the United Kingdom (principally, The Compact) and Canada (the Accord). The National Compact) cannot be explained solely in terms of policy diffusion or the predilection of centre-right political parties for policy instruments of this sort. Rather, explanation requires a more nuanced contextual analysis of the political and policy environment within which these frameworks emerged. In this article we compare the range of factors contributing to the development of The Compact (UK), the Accord) (Canada) and the National Compact (Australia). We apply a similar analysis to policy frameworks in selected Australian states. We conclude that compacts arrive on the policy agenda via the opening of policy windows and through the actions of policy entrepreneurs. Policy windows and the attention of policy entrepreneurs might be both contextual and therefore, time-limited. We consider the range of factors that appear to have a bearing on the impact and durability of inter-sectoral policy frameworks in each jurisdiction in order to draw tentative conclusions about the prospects for the Australian National Compact.

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“…In addition, Rhodes (1997) has identified the continuity of some hierarchical forms so that they coexist with network forms of organization. Turning to the role of the public, this complexity is compounded by the gaps between official discourses of involvement and the realities of implementation.…”

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Governance and public involvement in the British National Health Service: Understanding difficulties and developments

Callaghan

Wistow

2006

Social Science & Medicine

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The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. inadequate, and that we also need to look at inter-systemic and inter-personal levels for more complete explanations. Investigating the relationships between these levels, we derive an account of governance within which to situate the role of public involvement. It is against this background that we focus on why the methods of involvement deserve greater attention for their substantive contribution to its quality and effectiveness. KeywordsCommunity participation, public involvement, citizenship, governance, PCTs IntroductionThis article examines the role the public can play in the "policy space" (King and Stoker, 1996) created by the shift from government to governance, using insights from research in two primary care groups/trusts (PCG/Ts). These organisations were inserted into an NHS said to be changing from its traditional monolithic, hierarchical form to a looser 2 network structure (Milburn, 2003) 1 . Burns et al (1994) have argued that the more pluralistic institutional environment created by the move from hierarchies of government to networks of governance, offers better possibilities for democratic involvement than traditional representative systems. They suggest that "an adequate democratic project must centre itself upon recognition of the need for a plurality of power bases, modes of expression and participatory forms" (p282). Plurality alone, however, seems likely to be insufficient to achieve the desired objectives. Research into public participation in primary care has previously identified a danger that "initial efforts to engage communities will become little more than token gestures" (Alborz, Wilkin and Smith, 2002, p26) In this article we suggest that an analysis founded solely in the democratic basis of legitimacy ignores other motivations for public involvement. We draw on Jessop"s account of heterarchy and Bang"s discussion of participation to identify a a range of 1 498 PCGs were established during 1998, as subcommittees of Health Authorities, to cover "natural communities" of 100,000 people. They had three main roles: to improve health; develop primary care; and commission secondary care. General Practitioners chaired their Boards and were numerically dominant, though nurses and social services were represented and there was also one lay member. PCGs were replaced by PCTs, freestanding bodies with their own budgets, a lay chair and a lay majority on the board.

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Understanding Governance: Ten Years On

Cited by 1,175 publications

References 58 publications

What is protective space? Reconsidering niches in transitions to sustainability

What is protective space? Reconsidering niches in transitions to sustainability

An Australian National Compact - Something old, something new?

Governance and public involvement in the British National Health Service: Understanding difficulties and developments

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