Interactive GovernanceAdvancing the Paradigm

Governance has become one of the most commonly used concepts in contemporary political science. It is, however, often used to mean a variety of different things. This book helps to clarify this conceptual muddle by concentrating on one variety of governance – interactive governance. We argue that although the State may remain important for many aspects of governing, interactions between State and society represent an important, and perhaps increasingly important, dimension of governance. These interactions may be with social actors such as networks, with market actors, or with other governments, but all these forms represent means of governing involving mixtures of State action with the actions of other…