ABSTRACT
In terms of network management activities, many procedural authoritative tools are involved largely in the ‘selective activation’ of policy actors and/or their ‘mobilization’ through the extension of special recognition in a policy process. The procedural authoritative tools attempt to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of government actions through activation of policy actor support. Advisory councils are the best example of procedural authoritative instruments and are very common in market and corporatist governance arrangements. The archetypal advisory council is a more or less permanent body used to institutionalize interest group members in government deliberations. In addition to more permanent bodies, governments can also organize short-term and long-range mechanisms to provide input and legitimate government policy-making. Law is an important tool of modern government and the very basis of legal modes of governance. Direct administrative implementation of legislative rules is very common in modern modes of governance.
