The Encyclopedia of Governance

The following information about the Encyclopedia of Governance has been collected from the
publisher’s website offering online editions of a large number of encyclopedias.
(See http://www.sage-ereference.com).

Some basic facts:

Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Editor: Mark Bevir
Pub Date: December 2006
Pages: 1,232 pp. in two volumes
ISBN: 9781412905794
Price: $325.00
Number of entries: 576
Number of authors: 246

The Encyclopedia of Governance is published both in

a two-volume book edition and on a website available
via Internet (see URL below). Accessing the online
edition requires some form of subscription. Normally,
university libraries have the necessary subscription,
which makes the online edition available to everyone
with access to the library.
If you access the internet via your university network
you may be able to reach Sages online edition of the
Encyclopedia of Governance at the following URL:
http://www.sage-ereference.com/governance/.

Why use the Encyclopedia of Governance as an example for our project?

There are, of course, many encyclopedias that might serve as a model for our project. (You
can find several such encyclopedias on Sage’s ereference website.) The features of the
Encyclopedia of Governance that seem expecially attractive and that we should consider in
our project are its suitable (limited) volume, its decriptive style, and its layout (both the
printed and the online versions).

Contents of this overview of the Encyclopedia of Governance

The following features of the Encyclopedia of Governance will be focused below:
1. The publisher’s presentation of the book
2. Copy of two entries in the printed version of the book to show lay-out, etc.
3. Some screenshots showing the layout of the online version of the encyclopedia
4. Appendix: A list of the total number of entries (with links to the online version where
you can read the actual text).

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1. The publisher’s presentation of the book

The Encyclopedia of Governance

Source: http://www.sagepub.com/refbooksProdDesc.nav?prodId=Book226852

Awards:
Library Journal Best Reference 2006

Description:
The language of governance extends to patterns of rule found throughout our daily lives.
Governance also provides us with a language with which to remake our world. We might ask
how to make markets, networks, international organizations, corporations, and other
associations democratically accountable. We might also ask what values we want to uphold in
our practices of governance. It is important for us to address these questions because, by
doing so, we make the future.
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, and Sociology.

Key Features:
• Presents a determinedly global scope through approximately 550 entries written by
international contributors that explicitly address global, regional, and transnational
topics; cover theories and concepts that are debated globally; highlight similarities and
differences around the world; and offer examples from diverse regions and countries
• Examines the changes in the state associated with the transfer of powers, rights, and
functions to organizations within civil society as well as the rise of new types of
regional and international linkages and problems
• Explores how the state has become both increasingly dependent on organizations in
civil society and increasingly constrained by international linkages
• Avoids the jargon that characterizes most writing in the field and translates this
language into a more familiar and commonsense vocabulary so as to make it
intelligible to a wider audience
• Offers comprehensive coverage of topics including policy analysis, public sector
management, sociological theory, economic governance, democratic theory, security,
and global governance

The Encyclopedia of Governance offers new insights into the global community of which
we are all part, making it a must-have resource for any academic library.

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2. Copy of two entries in the printed version of the book
to show lay-out, etc.

The entry “Keynesianism” represents a medium sized (Category 2) entry in our Barents
Encyclopedia context. It is also the first entry under the letter “K”. Note that the author’s
name is stated at the end of the article, as are “pointers” to other related topics and some
suggestions for “Further readings and references”.

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Here is an another example of an entry in the Encyclopedia of Governance corresponding to a short (Category 1) entry in the context of the
Barents Encyclopedia

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3. Some screenshots showing the layout of the online version of
the encyclopedia

The following shows the entry “Democratization” as it appears in the online version of the
Encyclopedia of Governance. Source: http://www.sage-ereference.com/governance/Article_n129.html.
Note that there are no hyperlinks in the text itself. Links to related topics are instead collected in
the left frame, as are links to other topics of relevance for “democratization”.

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Searching for specific entries in the online version of the Encyclopedia of Governance is
facilitated through the Reader’s Guide, where entries have been grouped under a limited number
of themes (see for example “Environmental Governance”, where you have immediate access to
the 11 entries under this category).

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5. Appendix: Entries A-Z in the Encyclopedia of Governance
Note that you should be able to open the link to the online edition of the Encyclopedia of Governance and read the text
under each entry by clicking on the entry name while pressing the Ctrl-button on your keyboard.

• Accountability • Citizen-Centric Government • Consent

• Action Research • Citizen Participation. • Consociationalism
• Adhocracy • Citizenship • Constitutionalization
• Adversarial Legalism • City-Region • Consumption
• Advocacy Networks • Civic Capacity • Contract Enforcement
• African Governance • Civic Engagement • Contracting Out
• Agency • Civic Republicanism • Convergence and Divergence
• AIDS. • Civic Virtue • Cooperation
• American Governance • Civil Rights • Cooptation
• Anarchy • Civil Service • Coordinated Market
• Andean Community, Andean • Civil Society Economy
Pact • Clientelism • Coordination
• Antiglobalization • Climate Change • Core Executive
• Arab Integration • Clinical Governance • Corporate Codes of Conduct
• Arms Control • Closed Regionalism. • Corporate Governance
• Asian Financial Crisis • Coalition • Corporatism
• Asian Governance • Coercion • Corruption
• Asia-Pacific Economic • Collaborative Governance • Corruption Perceptions Index
Cooperation • Collaborative Planning • Cosmopolitanism
• Association • Collaborative Problem • Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Association of Governments. Solving • Council for Mutual Economic
• Association of Southeast • Collective Action Assistance
Asian Nations • Collective Wage Bargaining • Councils of Governments
• Audit • Collusion • Crisis Management
• Australasian Governance • Commission on Global • Critical Policy Analysis.
• Authoritarianism Governance • Critical Theory
• Authority • Common but Differentiated • Culture Governance
• Autopoiesis Responsibilities • Customs Union.
• Baltic State Cooperation • Common Good • Cyberspace
• Bear Market • Common Market for Eastern • Data Protection
• Benchmarking and Southern Africa • Decentered Theory
• Border Theory • Common-Pool Resource • Decentralization
• Bottom-Up Approach • Commonwealth of • Decision Making
• Bounded Rationality Independent States • Deinstitutionalization
• Bretton Woods • Communication • Deliberative Democracy
• Brokerage • Communicative Action • Democratic Deficit
• Budgetary Autonomy • Communicative Rationality • Democratic Theory
• Bull Market • Communism • Democratization
• Bureaucracy • Communitarianism • Department.
• Bureau Shaping • Community Association. • Dependency
• Bureaucratic Politics • Community Organizing • Deregulation.
Approach • Competition Policy • Derivative
• Business Cycle • Competition State • Deterrence
• Cairns Group • Competitiveness • Development Assistance
• Capacity Building • Complexity Committee
• Capitalism • Compliance Cost • Development Theory
• Capital Market Integration • Confederalism • Devolution
• Caribbean Community • Confidence-Building • Dialogic Public Policy
• Caribbean Governance Measure • Differentiated Polity
• Center-Local Relations • Conflict Mediation • Dilemma
• Chiang Mai Agreement • Confucian Governance • Dirigisme
• Consensus Democracy

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• Discourse • Foreign Exchange Market • Hybridity
• Disintermediation • Formal Organization • Hybrid Organization
• Divergence. • Frame Analysis • Immigration
• Domestic Level Theories • Freedom of Information • Import Substitution
• Due Process • Free Riding Industrialization
• East Asian Economic • Free Trade Area. • Impossible Job
Grouping • Free Trade Area of the • Impossibility Theorem
• Economic Community of Americas • Incentive Systems
West African States • Free Trade Zones. • Incrementalism
• Economic Governance • Functionalism • Indigenous Governance
• Economic Integration • Futures Market • Individualism
• Economic Openness • G8. • Industrialization
• Economic Sociology • Game Theory • Informal Organization
• Ecosystemic Approach • Garbage Can Theory • Information Access Laws
• E-Democracy • Gender Equality • Informationalism
• Effectiveness • Generalized Exchange • Institution
• Efficiency • Global City • Institutionalism
• E-Government • Global Civil Society • Institutionalization
• Elections • Global Compact • Institutionalized Environment
• Electronic Records • Global Governance • Institutional Performance
• Elitism. • Globalization • Interdependence
• Embeddedness • Global Justice • Interest Group
• Emergency Powers • Global Market • Interest Intermediation
• Empowerment • Global Warming • Intergovernmental Relations
• Endangered Species • Glocalization • Internal Market
Protection • Good Governance • International Courts
• Environmental Governance • Governability • International Division of
• Epistemic Community • Governance Labor
• Equilibrium Theory • Governance Failure • International Labour
• Equity • Governance Indicators Organization
• Ethical Consumerism • Government • International Law and
• Ethnic Groups • Governmentality Treaties
• Ethnic Inclusion. • Government by Proxy • International Monetary Fund
• Ethnonationalism • Government Department • International Organization
• European Coal and Steel • Government Performance • International Regime
Community and Results Act • Internet Governance
• European Free Trade • Gramscian Theory • Interorganizational
Association • Group of 7 Coordination
• European Governance • Group of 77 • Interpretive Policy Analysis
• European Union • Group Think • Interpretive Theory
• Evaluation Research • Guest Workers • Interregional Relations
• Everyday Maker • Health Care • Investment
• Evidence-Based Policy • Hedging • Investment Incentive
• Exchange-Rate Regime • Hegemony • Iron Law of Oligarchy
• Executive • Hemispheric Integration • Irrational Exuberance
• Export Processing Zones • Heterarchy • Islamic Governance
• Externalities • Hierarchy • Joint Venture
• Externalization. • High-Reliability Organization • Judiciary
• Failed State • Hindu Governance • Keynesianism
• Federalism. • Historical Institutionalism. • Knowledge Management
• Feminist Theory • HIV/AIDS • Kyoto Protocol
• Financial Market • Hollow State • Leadership
• Fiscal Crisis • Human Capital • Legislature
• Fiscal Federalism • Human Capital Mobility • Legitimacy
• Fordism and Post-Fordism • Humanitarian Intervention • Legitimacy Crisis
• Forecasting • Human Rights • Liberal Internationalism
• Foreign Direct Investment • Human Security • Liberalism

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• Liberalization • Nonprofit Organization • Political Business Cycle
• Liberal Market Economy • Normal Accident Theory • Political Communication
• Line-Staff Organization • Norms • Political Economy
• Local Governance • North American Free Trade • Political Exchange
• Localization Agreement • Political Party
• Local Knowledge • North Atlantic Treaty • Politics-Administration
• Local Reasoning Organization Dichotomy
• Logic of Appropriateness • North-South Regionalism • Polyarchy
• Majority Cycle • Occupation. • Pooled Sovereignty
• Market • Offshoring • Positive Political Theory
• Market Failure • Oil Crisis • Post-9/11
• Marketization • Oligopoly. • Postcolonialism
• Marxism • Ombudsman • Post-Fordism.
• Matrix Organization • Open and Closed • Postmodernism
• Measurement of Governance Regionalism • Post–Washington Consensus
• Media Freedom • Open Government • Poverty Reduction
• Mercantilism • Optimal Decision Making • Power
• Mercosur • Optimum Currency Area • Power Sharing
• Mesoregionalism • Organisation for Economic • Pragmatism
• Metropolitan Governance. Co-operation and • Precautionary Principle
• Micropolitics Development • Principal-Agent Model
• Middle Power • Organizational Culture • Prisoner's Dilemma
• Migration • Organizational Field • Private Military Companies
• Military Necessity • Organizational Learning • Privatization
• Military Occupation • Organizational Structure • Problem Structure
• Millennium Development • Organization for Security and • Production Chain
Goals Cooperation in Europe • Production Network
• Ministry. • Organization of African • Professionalism
• Minorities. Unity, The • Program Evaluation
• Monetarism • Organization of the • Property Rights
Petroleum Exporting
• Monetary Policy • Protectionism
Countries
• Monetary Union • Public Administration
• Organization Theory
• Monopoly • Public Choice Theory
• Outsourcing.
• Most-Favored Nation • Public Goods
• Overload
Principle • Public Information
• • Oversight
Multiculturalism • Public Investment
• Pacific Islands Forum
• Multilateralism • Public Opinion
• Pareto Optimality
• Multilevel Governance • Public-Private Partnership
• Participation
• Narrative Theory • Public Sector
• Participatory Democracy
• Nation • Public Sphere
• • Path Dependence
Nationalism • Punctuated Equilibrium
• Patrimonialism
• Natural Resource • Purchaser-Provider Split
• Peace Process
Management • Quango
• • Performance Measurement
Negotiation • Quasi-Market
• • Physical Capital
Neighborhood Association • Rational Choice
• Neocolonialism • Planning Institutionalism.
• • Pluralism
Neoliberalism • Rational Choice Theory
• • Pluralist Democracy
Neo-Marxism • Rationality
• Neotraditionalism • Policy Analysis • Rationalization
• • Policy Cycle
Network • Realism and Neorealism
• • Policy Development
Network Society • Reciprocity
• • Policy Implementation
New Institutionalism • Reflexivity
• • Policy Learning
New Poverty Research • Regime
• New Public Management • Policy Network • Regime Theory
• • Policy Predictability
New Regionalism • Regional Authority
• • Policy Style
Nongovernmental • Regional Development Bank
Organization • Policy Transfer • Regional Governance

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• Regionalism • Space • Varieties of Capitalism
• Regulation • Special District • Virtual Agency
• Regulation Theory • Stakeholder • Virtual Community
• Regulatory Enforcement • State • Voluntary Sector
• Regulatory Negotiations • State Building Liberalization
• Regulatory State • State Capture • War on Terrorism
• Religion • State-Society Relations • Washington Consensus
• Rent Seeking • State Structure • Weak Institution
• Representation • Steering • Welfare Reform
• Representative Democracy • Strategic Planning • Welfare State
• Republicanism. • Street-Level Bureaucrat • Workfare
• Research and Development • Structural Contingency • World Bank
• Resource Dependency Theory • World Development
Theory • Subsidiarity Indicators
• Responsibility • Substate Regionalism • World Economic Forum
• Revealed Preference • Sustainability • World Health Organization
• Risk • Sustainable Development • World Trade Organization
• Risk Society • Systems Theory
• Rule • Taoist Governance
• Rule of Law • Technical-Rational Expertise
• Rules of Origin • Technology
• Sanctions • Technology Transfer
• Satisfaction • Territoriality
• Satisficing Behavior • Terrorism
• Science • Third Sector
• Second-Track Diplomacy • Third Way
• Security • Third-World Debt
• Security Community • Tobin Tax
• Segregation • Top-Down Approach
• Self-Government • Total Quality Measurement
• Self-Organizing System • Trade Agreements
• Self-Regulation • Trade Union
• Sensemaking • Tradition
• Service Delivery • Tragedy of the Commons
• Service Provider • Transaction Cost
• Service Quality • Transgovernmentalism
• Situated Agency • Translation
• Social Capital • Transnational Governance
• Social Choice • Transnationalism
• Social Constructivism • Transnational Social
• Social Democracy Movement
• Social Exclusion. • Transnational Urbanism
• Social Inclusion • Transparency
• Social Justice • Triadization
• Social Learning • Tribal Governance
• Social Market • Trust
• Social Movement Theory • Unemployment
• Social Network Theory • United Nations
• Social Practice • United Nations Conference
• Sociocybernetics on Trade and Development
• Sociological Institutionalism. • United Nations Educational,
• Sociology of Governance Scientific and Cultural
• South East Asia Treaty Organization
Organization • United Nations Security
• Southern African Council
Development Community • Urban and Regional Planning
• Sovereignty • Urban Governance.

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