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

Measuring governance has become an increasingly important feature of modern societies, with organisations 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 summarises 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. Front Matter Copyright Contents Figures Tables Contributors Introduction to the Handbook on Measuring Governance PART I HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF MEASURING GOVERNANCE 1. State formation and statistics 2. Quantification and global governance 3. New Public Management, performance measurement, and measuring for governance 4. The constitutive effects of measuring governance PART II THEORETICAL APPROACHES TO MEASURING GOVERNANCE 5. Theoretical approaches to measuring governance: public administration 6. Measuring governance: a political science perspective 7. The sociology of measurement 8. Governmentality and the measuring of governance PART III METHODS AND METHODOLOGIES FOR MEASURING GOVERNANCE 9. Approaches and methods for measuring governance: comparing major supranational institutions 10. Measuring the quality of collaborative governance processes 11. A framework for measuring the effects of policy processes on health system strengthening 12. Measuring micro-foundations of governance: a behavioral perspective 13. Criteria-based measurement of collaborative innovation and its impact on public problem solving and value creation 14. Using collaborative performance summits to help both researchers and governance actors make sense of governance measures PART IV FIELDS OF MEASURING GOVERNANCE 15. Measuring active labour market polices 16. Governance in public health care: measurement (in)completeness 17. Made to measure: how central banks deliver performances of their worth and why unconventional monetary policy is reversing the burden of proof 18. We treasure what we measure: global development cooperation and the Sustainable Development Goals 19. Measuring democracy: capturing waves of democratization and autocratization Index 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.