About this book series

Understanding Governance encompasses all theoretical approaches to the study of government and governance in advanced industrial democracies and the Commonwealth. It has three long-standing objectives: 

1. To develop new theoretical approaches to explain changes in the role of the state.
2. To explain how and why that role has changed.
3. To set the changes and their causes in comparative perspective.

The origins of the series lie in the renowned Whitehall Research Programme funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Since 1997, it has published some 26 books by the best known names in the field including Colin Hay, David Marsh, Edward Page, Guy Peters, R. A. W. Rhodes, David Richards, Martin Smith and Patrick Weller.

Over the past twenty years the 'Understanding Governance' book series has constantly defined the state-of-the-art when it comes to the analysis of the modern state. From accountability to agencies, party politics to parliamentary power and from crisis-management to the core executive this book series continues to set the agenda in terms of world-class scholarship.
—Matthew Flinders, Professor of Politics and Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre at the University of Sheffield
Electronic ISSN
2947-423X
Print ISSN
2947-4221
Series Editor
  • R.A.W. Rhodes,
  • Patrick Diamond

Book titles in this series

  1. Ministerial Leadership

    Practice, Performance and Power

    Authors:
    • Leighton Andrews
    • Copyright: 2024

    Available Renditions

    • Hard cover
    • eBook
  2. Eric Drummond and his Legacies

    The League of Nations and the Beginnings of Global Governance

    Authors:
    • David Macfadyen
    • Michael D. V. Davies
    • Marilyn Norah Carr
    • John Burley
    • Copyright: 2019

    Available Renditions

    • Hard cover
    • eBook