Odlišné perspektivy definování a zkoumání konceptu governance v politických vědách a ve veřejné politice

• Authors: Horák Pavel

Title variants

EN

Different perspectives of defining and investigating the concept of governance in political sciences and public policy

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This paper introduces the history of the concept of governance in the European and non-European context, putting special emphasis on perspectives that present the most common ways of its defining and investigating by different authors in the political sciences and public policy from the past to the present. Knowledge of these perspectives allows to understand and explore the modes and circumstances related to the coordination of public and social policies focused on solution of contemporary societal problems and new social risks. In particular, the paper presents six different but mostly used perspectives that accentuate (1) the decreasing role of the government, (2) the way in which large corporations are managed and controlled, (3) the introduction of new public management, (4) the existence of countries characterized by more or less democratic government, (5) the greater involvement of social actors in addressing societal problems, and (6) the growing role of inter-organizational and self-organizing networks of actors influencing the policy-making and/or policy implementation of public and social policies. In conclusion, we summarize key findings and briefly propose concrete analytical steps that can be used to operationalize the concept of governance in order to best understand the processes of this phenomena that can be explored in public policy as a scientific discipline and societal practice.

Keywords

EN

governance; government; public administration; public and social reforms; public policy

Discipline

• LAW_&_ADMINISTRATION: LAW & ADMINISTRATION
• POLITICAL_SCIENCES: POLITICAL SCIENCES

• Publisher: Czech Political Science Association, Czech Republic
• Journal: Politologická revue (Czech Political Science Review)
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 25-57

Contributors

author

Horák Pavel

• Fakulta sociálních studií, Masarykova Univerzita