Governance in the Twenty-First Century
Governance in the Twenty-First Century
This final chapter is devoted to considering the question posed at the outset: ‘To what extent do theories of governance encapsulate and account for the contemporary topography of the state?’ In doing so, the chapter posits a more refined understanding of state capacity that encapsulates both institutional and socio-political forms of control, leverage, and influence: a third wave of governance. The central focus of this third wave is ‘the paradox of state capacity’, which identifies and explores a simultaneous process through which states have sought to develop and foster new forms of central capacity whilst at the very same time transferring key control levers to a range of semi-independent organizational forms. Viewed from this perspective, the ‘paradox of state capacity’ develops the analytical leverage of existing scholarship, whilst illuminating the linkage between governance-related debates and broader socio-political concerns, including rising public expectations and the emergence of new policy challenges.
Keywords: governance, government, paradox, state capacity, third wave
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