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For decades, the term “governance” has been a key concept in political science. It was introduced in the field of international politics to describe structures and practices of coordination and control without a sovereign power, ie, an institution competent to make and enforce binding decisions (“governance without government”; Rosenau and Czempiel 1992; Rosenau 1998). Later, the term was transferred to other areas of politics inside and outside the state. Research on policy-making and implementation revealed that public authorities cannot cope with complicated societal issues by relying on the power of the state, that responsible governments and administrations regularly have to negotiate and cooperate with private actors from the public sector, and that many collectively binding rules are set and implemented beyond the state, in various forms of societal self-regulation (Mayntz 1998). Since the 1980s, public …