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January 30, 2007
A GCI Seminar |
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The Many Meanings of Governance:
How Should
We Develop Research and Theory?
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Karen Mossberger
Associate Professor,
Graduate Program in Public Administration
UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
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Great Cities Institute
412 South Peoria Street, Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60607
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What is governance? Is it merely a fashionable replacement for the word
"government"? Or can it convey something meaningful -- about collaboration, about changes
in state-society relations? Scholars across disciplines have increasingly used the term, but
it embraces many different forms with varied purposes, participants, and types of cooperation.
Focusing on urban and regional governance, Karen Mossberger reviewed some of the uses of the
term, opening a discussion on how to develop theory and research on governance. How can UIC
researchers contribute to developing further research in this area -- with clarity?
Karen Mossberger is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Public
Administration, UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs. Her co-authored work on governance issues
includes a comparative framework for urban regime analysis and a critique of concept stretching
in urban regime research. She has a forthcoming chapter on urban regime analysis in Theories
of Urban Politics (Second Edition, Sage). She is participating in a cross-national research
initiative on governance and neighborhood transformation, which will include Chicago and a dozen other
cities in Europe and North America. As a practitioner, Karen Mossberger was also involved in projects
such as Detroit's Empowerment Zone program.
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