Product Description: This volume examines the use of market means to pursue public goals. "Market-based governance" includes both the delegation of traditionally governmental functions to private players, and the importation into government of market-style management approaches and mechanisms of accountability...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Advances in information technology are transforming democratic governance. Power over information has become decentralized, fostering new types of community and different roles for government. Part of a series originating from a program at the Kennedy School of Government, this book examines the impact of technology on governance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Changing markets are challenging governance. The growing scale, reach, complexity, and popular legitimacy of market institutions and market players are re-opening old questions about the role of the public sector and redefining what it means to govern well...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)