This volume fills this gap and presents case studies - particularly in consensus democracies such as the Netherlands, Flanders, and Germany but also in majoritarian democracies such as the UK and Canada - that describe and analyze the impact of the changing role of government, and focus on the introduction of interactive governance and the introduction of quasi-markets. The chapters explore how new forms of governance combine with the traditional institutions and processes of public decision making. TOC:From the Contents:Preface.- Introduction: The emergence of new forms of governance.- Does interactive decision making work? Expanding Rotterdam Port.- Power to the people? Rule configurations and power games in interactive governance.- Interactive policy making as institutional design for local democracy: The experiments of the institute for public and politics.- Rebuilding Roombeek. An institutional analysis of interactive governance in the context of a representative democracy.- Institutional reform in higher education: Forever changes?- The emergence of a new environmental policy arena: The Dutch horticulture industry.- Dutch public health on the move. From limited self-regulation to a state-supervised quasi-market?- Siting unwanted land uses: Does interactive decision making help?- Statism by Stealth? Market orientation in British higher education.- Towards a post-parliamentary democracy in Germany? Theoretical considerations and empirical observations on local democracy.- Interactive governance: A view from the UK.- Local governance in Flanders.- Contributors.
