The Rise of Interactive Governance and Quasi-Markets (Library of Public Policy and Public Administration Book 8)

It has taken a long time to make this book. Many initial drafts of the chapters published in this book were presented in November 2000 during a two-day conference on Interactive governance: towards a post-parliamentary democracy held in Enschede (The Netherlands). The Netherlands Institute of Governance (NIG) sponsored the . conference. After this conference the organisers discussed the possibility of making a book on the basis of papers presented at this event. In the end it was agreed that such a publication would indeed be worthwhile provided the initial papers were fundamentally revised. Moreover it was agreed that also supplementary chapters should be included, in order to strengthen the international comparative perspective. On this basis authors of the conference papers chapters and envisioned new chapters were invited to (re)submit drafts. The completion of the book, however, was unexpectedly halted by the tragic sudden death of our co-editor and dear friend Oscar van Heffen. In his lifetime he was the driving force behind this project. Without his efforts, insightful comments and helpful suggestions this book, in its present form, would never have been published. As such we dedicate this volume to his memory, the completion of the book being an honorary debt to our friend and his wife Mirjan. Front Matter....Pages i-1 Introduction: The Emergence of New Forms of Governance....Pages 3-14 Does Interactive Decision Making Work? Expanding Rotterdam Port....Pages 15-41 Power to the People? Rule Configurations and Power Games in Interactive Governance....Pages 43-67 Interactive Policy Making as Institutional Design for Local Democracy: The Experiments of the Institute for Public and Politics....Pages 69-90 Rebuilding Roombeek An Institutional Analysis of Interactive Governance in the Context of a Representative Democracy....Pages 91-110 Institutional Reform in Higher Education: Forever Changes?....Pages 111-126 The Emergence of a New Environmental Policy Arena: The Dutch Horticulture Industry....Pages 127-141 Dutch Public Health on the Move From Limited Self-Regulation to a State-Supervised Quasi-Market?....Pages 143-170 Siting Unwanted Land Uses: Does Interactive Decision Making Help?....Pages 171-198 Statism by Stealth? Market Orientation in British Higher Education....Pages 199-212 Towards a Post-Parliamentary Democracy in Germany? Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Observations on Local Democracy....Pages 213-238 Interactive Governance: A View from the UK....Pages 239-259 Local Governance in Flanders....Pages 261-276 Back Matter....Pages 277-281 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