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Governance is not a fashion, but a firmly established lens through which to analyse the complexity of contemporary policy-making, that is the way in which a society and its political processes are organized and steered. Thus, governance needs to be seen as a general concept within political analysis that represents a necessary, heuristic tool with which to describe some of the complexity of political processes. Governance is not only a fashionable term, but one destined to remain with us for some time yet.
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Capano, G., Howlett, M., Ramesh, M. (2015). Re-thinking Governance in Public Policy: Dynamics, Strategy and Capacities. In: Capano, G., Howlett, M., Ramesh, M. (eds) Varieties of Governance. Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137477972_1
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