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Part 1 Introduction: governing without government - order and change inBritish politics. Part 2 Theory: policy networks in British politicalscience; the new governance. Part 3 Methodology: the institutionalapproach. Part 4 Applications: reinventing Whitehall - the hollowingout of the state; now nobody understands the system - the changing faceof local government; the European Union, cohesion policy andsub-national authorities in the UK. Part 5 Developments: frominstitutions to dogma - tradition, eclecticism and ideology in thestudy of British public administration; towards a postmodern publicadministration - epoch, epistemology or narrative.