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New Governance Anxieties: A Deweyan Response, William H. Simon

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Most participants in the Symposium on New Governance and the Transformation of Law found the "new governance" phenomenon attractive and important, but as David and Louise Trubek note, they were not entirely comfortable with it.

One anxiety concerned the difficulty of defining the phenomenon and situating it in the universe of familiar political ideas and institutions. The term gets applied to a variety of institutions. To some people, these institutions do not fit snugly into any familiar political categories. To others, they bear a suspicious resemblance to categories that no longer inspire optimism – for example, Romantic communitarianism, corporatism, or …