The problematic metagovernance of networks: Water reform in New South Wales

An argument is presented on the need to bring government back into discussions about network governance, through the concept of metagovernance which uses water reform in Australian state. Water management in New South Wales is used between 2002 and 2004 as an empirical lens in order to provide a theoretically informed empirical study of metagovernance and the dynamics of its relationship with collaborative or network modes of governance.