ABSTRACT
Thai Health Promotion Foundation (THPF) has powerful resources and a tendency to steer. These make it a qualified metagovernor in its relationship with the NGO partners. By investigating THPF as a metagovernor dealing with governing strategies and creating a certain governance arrangement which is strategically selective resulting in a structural tendency in the way it steers and coordinates modes of governance, this chapter argues that THPF indeed performs metagovernance. THPF tends to favour the steering of civil society and coordinates interactive governance, especially market-driven and network-driven steering. This steering and coordination are conducted in ‘the shadow of hierarchy’.
