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The New Governance and the Tools of Public Action: An Introduction

Category: Ionian History
Type: Article
Book Title: Entrepreneurship in Theory and History
Author: Salamon M. Lester
Editor: Θεοχαράκης Νίκος
Journal: Fordham Urban Law Journal
Pages: 3-21
Volume: 28
Date: 2001
URL: http://www.questia.com/reader/action/readchecked?docId=5001045777

Abstract:

The 'new governance,' by contrast, shifts the focus of attention much more explicitly from the internal workings of public organizations to the networks of actors on which they increasingly depend. While acknowledging the advantages such networks can bring, however, it also acknowledges the considerable challenges they pose. As such, it builds on two other bodies of theory: 'principal-agent theory' and 'network theory.'


The research project is implemented within the framework of the Action “Supporting Postdoctoral Researchers» of the Operational Program "Education and Lifelong Learning" (Action’s Beneficiary: General Secretariat for Research and Technology), and is co-financed by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Greek State.