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Governing Complex Societies: Trajectories and Scenarios
Governing Complex Societies Trajectories and Scenarios Author:Jon Pierre, B. Guy Peters Western societies are becoming increasingly complex and challenging to govern, yet the modern state continues to play a central role in governance. This book presents a detailed analysis of the challenges confronting the contemporary state and the processes through which the state addresses those challenges. The notion of "governing without gove... more »rnment" is critiqued; instead, Pierre and Peters argue that what is happening a more a matter of state transformation than state decline.« less