This book outlines the importance of political institutions in achieving good governance within a democratic polity.

In this essay it is proposed a critical analysis of Gerring and Thacker’s Centripetal Theory of Democratic Governance (2008). There is a fundamental ambiguity

Going beyond democratic theory, March and Olsen draw on social science to examine how political institutions create and sustain democratic solidarity, identitie

Centripetal democracy is the idea that legitimate democratic institutions set in motion forms of citizen practice and representative behaviour that serve as pow

This book seeks to renew and refocus the debate on the use of governance networks in public policy making. It raises and answers a series of questions about the