Gerrit S.A. Dijkstra is Associate PROFESSOR in the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University, The Netherlands, and a deputy judge in the Court of The Hague.Frits M. van der Meer holds the Chair ‘Comparative Public Sector and Civil Service Reform’ at the Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University, The Netherlands.Heinrich B. Winter is Professor of Public Administration at the University of Gronigen, The Netherlands.

• Introduction.-Legal Models and Traditions.-The political and administrative structure of the state.-On government and governance.-government, multilevel governance, and the enabling State.-Instrumental, normative, and constitutional dimensions of law, governance,and bureaucracy.-The position and functioning of the Judiciary within the framework of the state.- Discretion and its consequences for law, governance, and bureaucracy.-8 On the position and the role of bureaucracy vis-à-vis law and governance.-By way of conclusion law,  governance and bureaucracy.-change and reform.-References.

Gerrit S.A. Dijkstra is Associate PROFESSOR in the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University, The Netherlands, and a deputy judge in the Court of The Hague.Frits M. van der Meer holds the Chair ‘Comparative Public Sector and Civil Service Reform’ at the Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University, The Netherlands.Heinrich B. Winter is Professor of Public Administration at the University of Gronigen, The Netherlands.

• Introduction.-Legal Models and Traditions.-The political and administrative structure of the state.-On government and governance.-government, multilevel governance, and the enabling State.-Instrumental, normative, and constitutional dimensions of law, governance,and bureaucracy.-The position and functioning of the Judiciary within the framework of the state.- Discretion and its consequences for law, governance, and bureaucracy.-8 On the position and the role of bureaucracy vis-à-vis law and governance.-By way of conclusion law,  governance and bureaucracy.-change and reform.-References.

Gerrit S.A. Dijkstra is Associate PROFESSOR in the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University, The Netherlands, and a deputy judge in the Court of The Hague.Frits M. van der Meer holds the Chair ‘Comparative Public Sector and Civil Service Reform’ at the Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University, The Netherlands.Heinrich B. Winter is Professor of Public Administration at the University of Gronigen, The Netherlands.

• Introduction.-Legal Models and Traditions.-The political and administrative structure of the state.-On government and governance.-government, multilevel governance, and the enabling State.-Instrumental, normative, and constitutional dimensions of law, governance,and bureaucracy.-The position and functioning of the Judiciary within the framework of the state.- Discretion and its consequences for law, governance, and bureaucracy.-8 On the position and the role of bureaucracy vis-à-vis law and governance.-By way of conclusion law,  governance and bureaucracy.-change and reform.-References.