First published in 2012, the reissuing of Interactive Governance: Advancing the Paradigm reflects not only the enduring esteem held in academic circles for its authors but also the continued importance of the text’s commentaries around interactive governance for policymakers and elected officials. Resulting from the collaboration of Pierre and Peters, and Sørensen and Torfing, this book explains the interactive governance process, whilst acknowledging the increasingly engaged citizenry and failing trust in government that challenge the role of public leadership in Western countries today. An introductory chapter establishes the authors’ position, positing both government and governance as integral to the governing of the modern state. A strong argument is made asserting the importance of understanding governance processes, highlighting the role of such processes in dealing with increasingly complex issues in policy and public service delivery. This chapter sets out the themes and arguments to be presented over the course of twelve chapters, from a review of the literature around governance in the social sciences to the definition of ‘metagovernance’ and analysis of governance in the context of democratic participation and accountability. The early chapters of this book build to the concept of metagovernance, explored at length in Chapter Seven. Chapter One examines the various debates around governance in contemporary literature. Three oft-repeated criticisms of governance – that it occurs only marginally, that it is a dated phenomenon and therefore does not require new consideration by researchers, and that it is a regrettable process – are strongly refuted, lending credibility to the authors’ arguments for the relevance of studying interactive

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交互式治理：推进范式

首次出版于 2012 年，重新发行《互动治理：推进范式》不仅反映了学术界对其作者的持久尊重，还反映了该文本围绕互动治理的评论对政策制定者和民选官员的持续重要性。这本书是 Pierre 和 Peters 以及 Sørensen 和 Torfing 合作的成果，解释了互动治理过程，同时承认越来越多的公民参与和对政府的信任度下降，这对当今西方国家的公共领导作用提出了挑战。介绍性章节确立了作者的立场，将政府和治理视为现代国家治理不可或缺的一部分。一个强有力的论据断言了理解治理过程的重要性，强调此类进程在处理政策和公共服务提供方面日益复杂的问题方面的作用。本章列出了十二章的主题和论点，从对社会科学中治理的文献回顾到“元治理”的定义以及民主参与和问责制背景下的治理分析。本书的前几章构建了元治理的概念，在第七章中进行了详细探讨。第一章考察了当代文学中关于治理的各种争论。对治理的三个经常重复的批评——它只发生很少，它是一个过时的现象，因此不需要研究人员重新考虑，这是一个令人遗憾的过程——被强烈驳斥，