Governance: an ‘empty signifier’ or a scientific research programme? Cover Image

Governance – „puste pojęcie” czy naukowy program badawczy? z wprowadzeniem Boba Jessopa
Governance: an ‘empty signifier’ or a scientific research programme?

Author(s): Claus Offe
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie we współpracy z Wydawnictwem Naukowym Scholar
Keywords: governance; state; market; structure; process

Summary/Abstract: The introduction presents critical insights on the structure and semantics of the concept of governance. The main approaches to understand the concept of governance, in the debate on the modern state and the market, have been examined. Furthermore, the reasons why at present the concept of governance is so popular all over the world, have been explained. The final part of the paper offers some critical observations on the important limitations in the use of the concept of governance both in theory and practice.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 87-102
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Polish