Democratic Governance examines the changing nature of the modern state and reveals the dangers these changes pose to democracy. Mark Bevir shows how new ideas about governance have gradually displaced old-style notions of government in Britain and around the world....

The Making of British Socialism provides a new interpretation of the emergence of British socialism in the late nineteenth century, demonstrating that it was not a working-class movement demanding state action, but a creative campaign of political hope promoting social justice, personal transformation, and radical democracy....

The word \'governance\' is ubiquitous. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund make loans conditional on \'good governance\'. Climate change and avian flu appear as issues of \'global governance\'. The European Union issues a White Paper on \'Governance\'. The U.S. Forest Service calls for \'collaborative governance\'....