Mark Bevir
Contributor
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley; Distinguished Research Professor, Swansea University. His contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Governance (2007) and Encyclopedia of Political Theory (2010) formed the basis of his contributions to Britannica.
Primary Contributions (2)
Governance, patterns of rule or practices of governing. The study of governance generally approaches power as distinct from or exceeding the centralized authority of the modern state. The term governance can be used specifically to describe changes in the nature and role of the state following the…
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Publications (1)
Encyclopedia of Governance - 2 volume set (December 2006)
The Encyclopedia of Governance provides a one-stop point of reference for the diverse and complex topics surrounding governance for the period between the collapse of the post-war consensus and the rise of neoliberal regimes in the 1970s. This comprehensive resource concentrates primarily on topics related to the changing nature and role of the state in recent times and the ways in which these roles have been conceptualized in the areas of Political Science, Public Administration, Political Economy,...
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