richard saltman and antonio duran take up the challenging issue of governance in their article “governance, government and the search for new provider models,” and use two case studies of health policy changes in sweden and spain to shed light on the subject. in this commentary, i seek to link their conceptualization of governance, especially its interrelated roles at the macro, meso, and micro...

The article defines the essence of phenomenon public and private-based university governance for first time substantiates concept "public in context ensuring effectiveness educational activities." Based on algorithm definition concepts (definition list essential features a concept; through nearest genus; its specific features) analysis set related ("public administration", governance", state "s...

Adaptive governance is an emergent form of environmental governance that is increasingly called upon by scholars and practitioners to coordinate resource management regimes in the face of the complexity and uncertainty associated with rapid environmental change. Although the term “adaptive governance” is not exclusively applied to the governance of social-ecological systems, related research re...

The broadest meaning of governance is the regulation of social activities utilizing a variety of modes and mechanism of societal regulation. These range from collectively binding decisions to uncoordinated individual action guided by social norms and rationality principles. In the political science literature of the 1950s and 1960s this theoretical problem was treated in terms of "control" and ...

good governance is an idea which has many advocates and opponents. from last years of 1980s this term became common. however, there is not any clear definition or description for good governance or even governance. though unanimity on its characteristics is invisible, it is possible to consider eight characteristics for god governance: participation, accountability, transparency, rule of law, r...

Wetlands are important to the survival of the earth environment and ecosystems, along with the extent of the ecological study of regional governance continues to accelerate, the regulators have implemented various ecological management project management process kinds of data and information related to the increasing range. The traditional data management model is difficult to meet the current ...

Settlers flocking to boomtowns on the American western frontier were faced with the same task that communities in weak states all across the globe face: self-governance. Reputation mechanisms and community punishment can enforce cooperation in these environments, but existing theories ignore the role of social networks in spreading relevant news. Explicitly building networks into a theory of in...

The homo economicus of traditional economics is far from being completely self-interested, rational, or as individualistic as he is purported to be; he will haggle to death over price but will not beat, cheat, or steal. Implicitly, he is assumed to behave ruthlessly within a well-de...ned bubble of sainthood. Based on a simple model, I ...rst examine what occurs when this assumption is relaxed ...