Abstract
The agenda of this volume combines two important concepts, governance and participation, both of which are focal concepts in many of the current debates that examine how the world we live in can be governed just a little bit more. Consequently, the discussion also involves several other normative expectations, such as effectiveness, legitimacy, and democracy. The precise definitions of these terms vary, especially when they are used by different scholars. A typical and highly relevant example is the World Bank, which uses simple definitions for these concepts and thus for about a decade has promoted what it calls “good” governance, a mixture of liberal democratic economic values. For the current agenda these terms will be given more elaborate and sophisticated meanings, although in practice our influence may not be as widespread as that of the World Bank. Nonetheless I am flattered at the prospect of contributing to the discussion of refining and questioning these important normative terms. For this discussion, I will do two central things:
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I will sketch in a few broad strokes the recent history of governance theorizing.
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I will offer my own short overview in conceptualising “social-political” or interactive governance.
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Kooiman, J. (2002). Governance. A Social-Political Perspective. In: Grote, J.R., Gbikpi, B. (eds) Participatory Governance. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-11003-3_4
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