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Abstract

How can public-sector activities be coordinated internally and externally if hierarchy, with its dependence on clear boundaries, has weakened? How can public managers be prevented from becoming confused about their roles and intervention capacity? These questions are dealt with under the banner of ‘governance’. Governance has become a buzzword, not only among public-administration scholars, but also among practitioners. The term even risks becoming so general that it becomes meaningless and, as Peters warns, “a tautology: something happened, and therefore governance occurred”. 26 Governance “has become a rather fuzzy term that can be applied to almost everything and therefore describes and explains nothing”. 27

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