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Tables of Contents for Modernizing Governance
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
vii
Acknowledgements
ix
List of abbreviations
x
Introduction: new Labour and the question of governance
1
1
Governance and new Labour
1
3
Key questions
4
1
Politics, policy and culture: outlining the approach
5
3
The structure of the book
8
3
Understanding governance
11
15
Forms of analysis: political, economic and social governance
12
4
Theoretical challenges
16
6
New Labour, new governance?
22
4
The dynamics of institutional change
26
14
Conceptualising `change'
26
5
Exploring tensions in the process of change
31
2
Mapping models of governance
33
4
The dynamics of change
37
3
The Third Way: modernising social democracy
40
15
Constructing the Third Way
40
6
Modernisation: putting the `new' into new Labour?
46
6
Modernising governance?
52
3
Modernising government: the politics of reform
55
28
Neo-liberal governance
55
3
Labour's modernisation of government
58
4
Modernising the policy process
62
10
Modernising the state: towards multi-level governance
72
6
A new style of governance?
78
5
Modernising services: the politics of performance
83
21
Public services: partners or agents?
84
2
Regulating professional work
86
7
Shaping behaviour: regulation and self-regulation
93
2
Labour's approach to managing change
95
4
Implementing change: trust and contract
99
5
Joined-up government: the politics of partnership
104
23
Governing through partnership: a paradigm shift?
104
4
The limits of partnership
108
4
The dynamics of partnership working
112
4
Power, trust and leadership
116
5
Organisational cultures and professional identities
121
3
Towards a new governance?
124
3
Public participation: the politics of representation
127
16
The Third Way and democratic renewal
128
2
The challenge to representative democracy
130
3
Equality, diversity and the politics of difference
133
3
New Labour, modernisation and the limits to public participation
136
3
Towards a new form of governance?
139
4
Remaking civil society: the politics of inclusion
143
18
Renewing civil society
144
2
Re-building community capacity
146
2
Remaking welfare subjects
148
3
From equality to social inclusion
151
3
A modern British people?
154
4
The politics of inclusion
158
3
Conclusion: the politics of governance
161
20
New Labour and governance
161
2
The paradoxes of modernisation
163
2
Governance as a constructed and contested domain
165
3
The dispersal of power
168
2
Towards a new political settlement?
170
1
Reconceptualising governance
171
2
Re-imagining modernisation
173
8
Bibliography
181
13
Index
194