Chapter 1: The Russian state as network manager: a theoretical framework; Mikkel Berg-Nordlie, Jørn Holm-Hansen and Sabine Kropp.- Chapter 2: Adjusting the scope of interaction between state and civil society: HIV prevention among drug users; Aadne Aasland and Anastasia Y. Meylakhs.- Chapter 3: Environmental impact assessment: between facilitating public contribution and arbitrary involvement of NGOs; Johannes Schuhmann and Sabine Kropp.- Chapter 4: Climate change adaptation: governance in a fragmented and unsettled policy area; Jørn Holm-Hansen and Mikkel Berg-Nordlie.- Chapter 5: Child Welfare Policies in Russia– Civil Society Contributions without Return?; Jørn Holm-Hansen.- Chapter 6: Imitation and enforced cooperation: state and civil society in ethnic conflict management; Sabine Kropp and Johannes Schuhmann.- Chapter 7: Substitution in Sápmi. Meta-governance and Conflicts over Representation in Regional Indigenous Governance; Mikkel Berg-Nordlie.- Chapter 8: Patterns of governance in Russia: feedback of empirical findings into governance theory; Sabine Kropp and Aadne Aasland.
Sabine Kropp is Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Aadne Aasland is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR), Norway.
Mikkel Berg-Nordlie is Researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR), Norway.
Jørn Holm-Hansen is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR), Norway.
Johannes Schuhmann is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf, Germany.