Network governance

Potential Roles for Nonstate Actors and Nonterritorial Sovereign Organizations in Reducing Armed Violence

by Jeffrey French

Networks and Interactivity: Ten years of Street-level Governance in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Australia’

by Jenny Lewis

Published in: Public Management Review 2012, 14(1): 1-22 (DOI:10.1080/14719037.2011.589613).
Co-authored with Mark Considine.

L’influence de la gouvernance sur la capacité de changement du système de soins: l’exemple de l’implantation des groupes de médecine de famille

by Frédéric Gilbert

2010 Gilbert, F. L’influence de la gouvernance sur la capacité de changement du système de soins: l’exemple de l’implantation des groupes de médecine de famille, Thèse présentée dans le cadre du programme de Doctorat en santé publique (Gestion des services de santé), Université de Montréal.

Assessing IT Governance Maturity: The Case of San Marcos, Texas

by Texas State PA Applied Research Projects

Wood, David J., "Assessing IT Governance Maturity: The Case of San Marcos, Texas" (2010). Applied Research Projects, Texas State University-San Marcos. Paper 345.
http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/345

Purpose: Information Technology fundamentally changes how people interact. Cities are no different. Cities, as all... more Purpose: Information Technology fundamentally changes how people interact. Cities are no different. Cities, as all organizations, interweave Information Technology into every process to provide services. This widespread use of technology requires cities to assess IT governance maturity to ensure good organizational practices and IT alignment with organizational goals and objectives. Cities can improve practices and IT alignment by assessing IT governance and creating benchmarks for future performance. This research assesses the IT governance maturity of the city of San Marcos, Texas and provides recommendations to improve IT governance.
Procedure: This research follows a case study design in assessing the IT governance maturity of the city of San Marcos. The research is based on the widely used COBIT IT Governance Framework. The case study uses only nine of the thirty four COBIT objectives as a modified framework to assess IT governance maturity. The research uses structured interviews conducted with members of the San Marcos Information Technology Department. The research also relies on relevant documentation collected and analyzed through document analysis.
Results: The results demonstrate that the city of San Marcos has many practices in place that meet maturity requirements for the IT governance framework. Though the city of San Marcos has not created or adopted an IT governance framework, many of the processes in place match practices outlined in COBIT IT Governance Framework objectives. The city of San Marcos can better utilize IT resources by improving IT governance as the city continues to grow and prosper.

Does Participation Really Matter in Urban Regeneration Policies? Exploring Governance Networks in Catalonia (Spain)

by Marc Martí-Costa

Co-authored with Bonet, Jordi y Parés, Marc
Published in Urban Affairs Review

In this article we focus our attention on the progressively prominence of the citizen participation into the networks... more In this article we focus our attention on the progressively prominence of the citizen participation into the networks of governance oriented toward urban regeneration. We expound the main results of our recent research carried out in 10 deprived neighborhoods in Catalonia (Spain), going in depth into three central issues: (1) the weight of citizen participation in the governance networks, (2) the substantive effects of this participation, and (3) the factors that influence the variety of experiences of participation in urban regeneration. We conclude that the development of participatory governance networks is dialectically related to policy outcomes and to prior structural elements like the position of the neighborhoods within the urban system or the availability and characteristics of the local social capital

Does Participation Really Matter in Urban Regeneration Policies? Exploring Governance Networks in Catalonia (Spain)

by Marc Martí-Costa

Co-authored with Bonet, Jordi y Parés, Marc
Published in Urban Affairs Review

In this article we focus our attention on the progressively prominence of the citizen participation into the networks... more In this article we focus our attention on the progressively prominence of the citizen participation into the networks of governance oriented toward urban regeneration. We expound the main results of our recent research carried out in 10 deprived neighborhoods in Catalonia (Spain), going in depth into three central issues: (1) the weight of citizen participation in the governance networks, (2) the substantive effects of this participation, and (3) the factors that influence the variety of experiences of participation in urban regeneration. We conclude that the development of participatory governance networks is dialectically related to policy outcomes and to prior structural elements like the position of the neighborhoods within the urban system or the availability and characteristics of the local social capital

Governance e globalizzazione: oltre la actor-network theory

by Danilo Nicotra

The paper will be published as soon as possible on Rivista Trimestrale di Scienza dell'Aministrazione. An english translation will be posted here.

L’obiettivo di questo saggio è di fornire una sistematizzazione di tre concetti chiave o, meglio, tre coppie di... more L’obiettivo di questo saggio è di fornire una sistematizzazione di tre concetti chiave o, meglio, tre coppie di concetti: neoliberalismo/neoliberismo, globalizzazione/governance e network economy/networked polity. Il nucleo delle tre coppie di concetti è il medesimo e si specifica sotto tre distinti profili: il rapporto tra economia e politica o, se si vuole, tra stato e mercato, big business e big government. Il saggio si propone di offrire alcune “istruzioni per l’uso” per “assemblare” di nuovo la macchina governativa. Oggi, infatti, ci troviamo  paradossalmente di fronte all’esigenza di montare assieme le parti di un nuovo Leviatano che la actor-network theory, proposta da Latour e Callon, ha “smontato” solo tre decenni fa.

Keywords: Actor-network theory, globalizzazione, governance, neoliberalismo.


The aim of this paper is to provide a framework of analysis for three key-concepts or, better, three couples of concepts: neo-liberalism/libertarianism, globalization/governance, and network economy/networked polity. The core of the three couple of concepts is the same and it is specified under three distinct profiles: the relation between economics and politics, as to say, between state and the market, big business and big government. The paper aims to offer some kind of ‘toolbox’ to assemble a new governing machine. Today we paradoxically find ourselves to deal with the need of re-assembling the pieces of a new Leviathan that the actor-network theory, proposed by Latour and Callon (1981),  has ‘dismantled’ three decades ago.

Keywords: Actor-network theory, globalization, governance, neoliberalism. 

The future of network governance research: Strength in diversity and synthesis (Introduction to symposium of papers on network governance research)

by Jenny Lewis

Public Administration 2011, 89(4): 1221-1234.

Explaining the normative underpinnings of local governance: Comparing governments, politicians and bureaucrats and their approach to innovation

by Jenny Lewis

Published in (P Smyth, T Reddel and A Jones, eds) Community and Local Governance in Australia. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2005.
Co-authored with Mark Considine.

Governance, networks and civil society: How local governments connect to local organisations and groups

by Jenny Lewis

Published in (J Barraket ed) Strategic issues in the not-for-profit sector, Sydney: UNSW Press, 2008.
Co-authored with Mark Considine and Damon Alexander.

Interactive governance on the frontline

by Jenny Lewis

Published in: (P Triantafillou and J Torfing, eds) Interactive Policymaking, Metagovernance and Democracy, Warwick: ECPR Press, 2011.
Co-authored with Mark Considine.

A network approach for researching partnerships in health

by Jenny Lewis

Published in Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2005.

Inclusive Boundary Work in Collaborative Public Management

by Kathy Quick

Quick, Kathyn S. and Martha S. Feldman. 2011."Inclusive boundary work in collaborative planning," presented at the Public Management Research Association conference (June 2011, Syracuse, New York) and Association of Colleges and Schools of Planning conference (October 2011, Salt Lake City, Utah)

This paper uses a focus on boundaries and boundary work to illustrate what inclusive management brings to... more This paper uses a focus on boundaries and boundary work to illustrate what inclusive management brings to collaboration. We argue that inclusive management is a framework for expanding opportunities to enhance connections, that inclusive management practices involve denaturalizing boundaries that are often taken for granted, and that such boundary work is a way of achieving resilience in public management. We use 3 engagement processes from planning to illustrate the practices of making connections across four boundary zones that are commonly experienced in collaborative planning: inside/outside organizational, expert/lay knowledge, temporal, and issue boundaries. We identify five boundary work practices: aligning differences, translating across differences, changing the meaning of differences, creating difference, and rendering difference inconsequential.

Keywords: boundaries, boundary work, collaborative planning, inclusive public management, public engagement, resilience

Improving partnership governance: using a network approach to evaluate partnerships in Victoria

by Jenny Lewis

Published in: Australian Journal of Public Administration 2008, 67(4): 443-456
Co-authored with Jeanette Pope

Networks and Interactivity: Making Sense of Front-Line Governance In the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Australia

by Jenny Lewis

Published in Journal of European Public Policy 2003, 10,(1), 46-58.
Co-authored with Mark Considine

Governance at Ground Level: The Frontline Bureaucrat In the Age of Markets and Networks.

by Jenny Lewis

Published in Public Administration Review 1999, 59(6): 467-480.
Co-authored with Mark Considine

Bureaucracy, Network, or Enterprise? Comparing Models of Governance In Australia, Britain, the Netherlands, and New Zealand

by Jenny Lewis

Published in: Public Administration Review 2003, 63(2): 131-140.
Co-authored by Mark Considine.

Gobernanza urbana y políticas de regeneración: el caso de Barcelona

by ismael blanco

BLANCO, I.
Revista Española de Ciencia Política, núm. 20, Abril de 2009

Profound and rapid changes in the socioeconomic structures are triggering a significant transformation of urban... more Profound and rapid changes in the socioeconomic structures are triggering a significant transformation of urban policy-making. One of the consequences of this process is the emergence of new networks of governance based on the cooperation between different kinds of urban actors. The case of Barcelona and more concretely the comparison between urban regeneration policies in the neighbourhoods of Raval – historical centre – and Trinitat Nova – urban periphery – permits us to illustrate the emergence of such new paradigm. Nevertheless, it also leads us to state that both the intensity and direction of urban policy change might be highly variable. As we explore the explanatory factors of such variability, we find out that forms of governance adopted in each territory depend both on structural and agency factors.

Policy networks and governance networks: towards greater conceptual clarity

by ismael blanco

BLANCO, I; LOWNDES, V.; PRATCHETT, L.
Political Studies Review. Vol.9, Issue 3, September 2011

Networks are central to both the practice and understanding of contemporary governance. But there is a tendency to... more Networks are central to both the practice and understanding of contemporary governance. But there is a tendency to conflate and confuse different concepts. Concepts of ‘policy network’ (PN) and ‘governance network’ (GN) are often used interchangeably, with an assumption that the latter has evolved from the former. Such indiscriminate borrowing fails to recognise the different antecedents, and distinctive analytical offer, of specific network theories. The article develops a systematic distinction between PN and GN theories, enabling those engaging with networks to select from, and even combine, alternative perspectives as they confront a new wave of change in policymaking and governance. The more sceptical account provided by PN theory provides a valuable counterbalance to the ‘optimistic’ character of the GN literature, which tends to underestimate the continued hold of (albeit multi-sector) elites on policy making, and over-state the extent to which networks represent a new ‘stage’ in the evolution of governance.

Coordinamento e gestione strategica delle reti: profili e competenze del network manager

by Denita Cepiku

Meneguzzo M., Cepiku D. (2010), “Coordinamento e gestione strategica delle reti. Profili e competenze dei network manager”, in Sviluppo e organizzazione, 238, pp. 74-85.