Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., is Sydney Stein Jr. Professor of Public Management at the University of Chicago. Carolyn J. Heinrich is an assistant professor of public policy analysis at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Together they coedited Governance and Performance: New Perspectives (Georgetown, 2000). Carolyn J. Hill is assistant professor in the Georgetown Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University.

Provides insights that come from practical experiences and research disappointments. Improving Governance is a valuable book for those who undertake organizational and policy research and for those desiring to do so.

• Preface About the Authors List of Tables and Features 1. Governance in a Democracy What is Governance?Complications of Governance ResearchPurposes of this BookLimits to GovernanceA CaveatNotes2. A Logic for Governance Research Challenges for Governance ResearchThe Logic of Market GovernancePublic-Sector Governance: An Institutional ViewLevels of GovernanceNotes3. Institutional Governance Legal IdealismPolitical EconomyThe New InstitutionalismNotes4. Organizational and Technical Governance The Organizational (Managerial) LevelThe Technical (Primary Work) LevelNotes5. Designing Research: Applying a Logic of Governance Questions and IssuesA Reduced-Form ModelSummaryNotes6. Designing Reseach: Models, Methods, and Data Identifying a Literature of GovernanceCritiquing a Literature of GovernanceSummaryNotes7. Governance Research: Scholarly Applications Governance Research in Three Policy DomainsMore Extensive Reviews of Individual Governance StudiesConlcuding CommentNotes8. Governance: Research and Practice The Nature of ResearchThe Nature of PracticeEnlightening Practice: Utilizing a LogicEnlightening Practice: ProspectsConclusionNotesReferences Names Index Subject Index

Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., is Sydney Stein Jr. Professor of Public Management at the University of Chicago. Carolyn J. Heinrich is an assistant professor of public policy analysis at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Together they coedited Governance and Performance: New Perspectives (Georgetown, 2000). Carolyn J. Hill is assistant professor in the Georgetown Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University.

Provides insights that come from practical experiences and research disappointments. Improving Governance is a valuable book for those who undertake organizational and policy research and for those desiring to do so.

• Preface About the Authors List of Tables and Features 1. Governance in a Democracy What is Governance?Complications of Governance ResearchPurposes of this BookLimits to GovernanceA CaveatNotes2. A Logic for Governance Research Challenges for Governance ResearchThe Logic of Market GovernancePublic-Sector Governance: An Institutional ViewLevels of GovernanceNotes3. Institutional Governance Legal IdealismPolitical EconomyThe New InstitutionalismNotes4. Organizational and Technical Governance The Organizational (Managerial) LevelThe Technical (Primary Work) LevelNotes5. Designing Research: Applying a Logic of Governance Questions and IssuesA Reduced-Form ModelSummaryNotes6. Designing Reseach: Models, Methods, and Data Identifying a Literature of GovernanceCritiquing a Literature of GovernanceSummaryNotes7. Governance Research: Scholarly Applications Governance Research in Three Policy DomainsMore Extensive Reviews of Individual Governance StudiesConlcuding CommentNotes8. Governance: Research and Practice The Nature of ResearchThe Nature of PracticeEnlightening Practice: Utilizing a LogicEnlightening Practice: ProspectsConclusionNotesReferences Names Index Subject Index