Governing Complex Societies: Trajectories and Scenarios

by B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre, B. Peters

Book Overview

Western societies are becoming increasingly complex and challenging to govern, yet the modern state continues to play a central role in governance. This book presents a detailed analysis of the challenges confronting the contemporary state and the processes through which the state addresses those challenges. The notion of 'governing without government' is critiqued; instead, Pierre and Peters argue that what is happening a more a matter of state transformation than state decline.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349523763
• ISBN13: 9781349523764
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"