Network Governance: Concepts, Theories, and Applications

Although network governance has received greater attention within the fields of public administration and policy in recent years, few books are designed specifically to help students, researchers, and practitioners examine key concepts, synthesize the growing body of literature into reliable frameworks, and to bridge the theory-practice gap by exploring network applications.Network Governance: Concepts, Theories, and Applications, Second Edition fills this important gap, offering a systematic examination of existing knowledge, while also exploring the applications of networks in a variety of management and policy domains.Authors Naim Kapucu and Qian Hu begin with a thorough overview of the key concepts in networks and network analysis before moving into more advanced concepts including network leadership and management, network performance and evaluation, power and decision-making, and legitimacy and accountability issues.The authors then provide examples of network governance applicat