GOVERNANCE AND POLICY INSTRUMENTS: NEW POLICY INSTRUMENTS FOR NEW MODES OF GOVERNANCE ?
In different types of polity, at different levels, the proliferation of actors and coordination instruments in an ever-increasing number of sectors has brought out a new paradigm: ‘the new governance’, or ‘new negotiated governance’, in which public policies are less hierarchized, less organized within a sector demarcated or structured by powerful interest groups at the risk of denying the interplay of social interests and of masking power relations. The state itself is increas- ingly differentiated. It seems to be a series of enmeshed agencies, organizations, flexible