Governing the Embedded State: The Organizational Dimension of Governance

by Bengt Jacobsson, Jon Pierre, Goran Sundstrom, et al.

Governing the Embedded State integrates governance theory with organization theory and examines how states address social complexity and international embeddedness. Drawing upon extensive empirical research on the Swedish government system, this volume describes a strategy of governance based in a metagovernance model of steering by designing institutional structures. This strategy is supplemented by micro-steering of administrative structures within...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199684162
• ISBN13: 9780199684168
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.5"