Reflexive Governance: Redefining the Public Interest in a Pluralistic World
Olivier De Schutter, Jacques Lenoble - Hart Publishing, 2010
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Reflexive Governance offers a theoretical
framework for understanding modern patterns of governance in EU institutions and
elsewhere. The book offers a learning-based approach to governance, but one
which can better respond to concerns about the democratic deficit and to the
fulfillment of the public interest than the currently dominant
neo-institutionalist approaches. The introduction looks at the concept of
reflexive governance and describes the overall framework. The chapters then
summarize the implications of reflexive governance in major areas of domestic,
EU, and global policy-making. They address in turn: services of general
interest, corporate governance, institutional frames for markets, regulatory
governance, fundamental rights, healthcare services, global public services, and
common goods. While the themes are diverse, the chapters are unified by their
attempt to get to the heart of which concepts of governance are dominant in each
field, and what their successes and failures have been. Reflexive governance
then emerges as one possible response to the failures of other governance models
currently being relied upon by policy-makers. The book will be of interest to
political scientists, constitutionalists, policy-makers, and specialists of
governance.
