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Political actors; preferences,actions and interactionsEconomic actors;preferences and actionsInstitutions governingthe policy process:Constitutions andcollective choice rulesResource regimes: Institutionsgoverning access toresources and interactionsbetween economic actorsFigure 3: Governance structureSource: (Vatn 2011)Drawing from existing literature (see Kooiman 1993; Pierre and Peters 2000; Bevirand Rhodes 2001; Hooghe and Marks 2001) we can distinguish five differentgovernance dimensions that can be useful in an analytical context; governance asnetwork, as inclusion of wider parts of the society, as multi-level governmentinvolvement, as new public management, and as hierarchies (Berger 2003).2.1.4.2. Governance as processIt is important to look at governance also as a process since governance is not onlyabout the institutional structures, but the interaction between them (Berger 2003).This process of policy making leads us in the direction of power, where “Policymaking is inherently conflictual, involving an uneven distribution of power andinfluence between different institutions and societal actors” (Berger 2003, p.222).The state has a sovereign power within a society, and according to Vedeld (2002), theright and duty to steer resource use according to the interests of its citizens. Hernes(1978) defines power as “the ability of an actor to realize his interests in the face ofother actors”. Nevertheless, in a democratic society it is usually also how this poweris practiced which is of importance (Vedeld 2002). How a state chooses to treat itscitizens is then reflected in the overall governance performance.28