Handbook on Measuring Governance
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Handbook on Measuring Governance: (Elgar Handbooks in Public Administration and Management)


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Measuring governance has become an increasingly important feature of modern societies, with organizations and institutions expected to prove their worth by quantifying their activities and results. This unique Handbook maps historical developments, theoretical conceptions and key approaches, and summarizes what is known about measuring governance from a variety of fields of practice. Peter Triantafillou and Jenny M. Lewis bring together an array of leading international academics to examine how governance is measured across different policy sectors and levels of government. Chapters explore the sociological theory of measurement, the quality of collaborative governance processes, governance in public health care and global development cooperation. The editors and contributors have combined theoretical thinking with empirical findings to support this comprehensive overview of measuring governance, providing a significant contribution to the ongoing discourse in this field. This thought-provoking Handbook will appeal to public administration and public policy professionals, as well as business and government practitioners at a national and international level. It will also prove highly beneficial to students, academics and researchers in governance, social policy, business and management and political science.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Introduction to the Handbook on Measuring Governance 1 Peter Triantafillou and Jenny M. Lewis PART I HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF MEASURING GOVERNANCE 1 State formation and statistics 15 Cosmo Howard 2 Quantification and global governance 31 Isabel Rocha de Siqueira 3 New Public Management, performance measurement, and measuring for governance 45 Jenny M. Lewis 4 The constitutive effects of measuring governance 62 Peter Dahler-Larsen PART II THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO MEASURING GOVERNANCE 5 Theoretical approaches to measuring governance: public administration 80 Sorin Dan 6 Measuring governance: a political science perspective 96 B. Guy Peters 7 The sociology of measurement 111 Radhika Gorur 8 Governmentality and the measuring of governance 125 Peter Triantafillou PART III METHODS FOR MEASURING GOVERNANCE 9 Approaches and methods for measuring governance: comparing major supranational institutions 138 Andrea Bonomi Savignon, Lorenzo Costumato and Fabiana Scalabrini 10 Measuring the quality of collaborative governance processes 156 Joop Koppenjan 11 A framework for measuring the effects of policy processes on health system strengthening 172 Fabiana da Cunha Saddi, Stephen Peckham, Peter Lloyd-Sherlock and Germano Araujo Coelho 12 Measuring micro-foundations of governance: a behavioral perspective 187 Sjors Overman, Emma Ropes and Wouter Vandenabeele 13 Criteria-based measurement of collaborative innovation and its impact on public problem solving and value creation 204 Jacob Torfing, Andreas Hagedorn Krogh and Anders Ejrnæs 14 Using collaborative performance summits to help both researchers and governance actors make sense of governance measures 216 Scott Douglas PART IV FIELDS OF MEASURING GOVERNANCE 15 Measuring active labour market polices 230 Niklas Andreas Andersen, Flemming Larsen and Dorte Caswell 16 Governance in public health care: measurement (in)completeness 244 Margit Malmmose 17 Made to measure: how central banks deliver performances of their worth and why unconventional monetary policy is reversing the burden of proof 260 Timo Walter 18 We treasure what we measure: global development cooperation and the Sustainable Development Goals 274 Katja Freistein 19 Measuring democracy: capturing waves of democratization and autocratization 289 Marianne Kneuer Index

About the Author :
Edited by Peter Triantafillou, Professor of Public Administration and Politics, Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Denmark and Jenny M. Lewis, Professor of Public Policy, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia

Review :
‘Measurement and governance are related in sometimes surprising ways. This timely Handbook, featuring both established and emerging scholars from across the globe, provides an elegant overview of historical developments, theoretical approaches, methods of measurement and fields of application. Thought-provoking and important for our understanding of how governance relates to, but also shapes, how we measure and understand the politico-administrative world.’ ‘The Handbook on Measuring Governance offers an engaging, theoretically rich but accessible framework for understanding the relationship between measurement and governance. For anyone interested in steering the ship of state, Triantafillou and Lewis offer a deeply-researched one-stop shop for understanding the theory, history, and implications of one of the central tools of governance.’


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781802200638
  • Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 244 mm
  • No of Pages: 330
  • Width: 169 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1802200630
  • Publisher Date: 12 Jan 2024
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Elgar Handbooks in Public Administration and Management


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