Theories of Democratic Network Governance

2006 "Mechanisms of governance network formation - a contextual rational choice perspective ", by Nils Hertting, IBF, pp. 43–60, in Jacob Torfing and Eva Sørensen (eds), Theories of Democratic Network Governance. Basingstoke/New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.

Description
Theories of Democratic Network Governance aims to renew and refocus the political and scholarly debate on the use of governance networks in public policy making by raising and answering a series of questions about the dynamics of governance networks, the conditions for governance network success and failure, the forms and functions of metagovernance (defined as the regulation of self-regulating networks) and the democratic implications of network governance. In an attempt to answer these pressing questions, the contributors draw on a wide range of theoretical approaches within governance network theory, institutional theory and democratic theory.