Polycentrism How Governing Works Today

How does governing work today? How does society (mis)handle pressing challenges such as armed violence, cultural difference, ecological degradation, economic restructuring, geopolitical shifts, global pandemics, migration flows, and technological change in ways that are democratic, effective, fair,...

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Main Authors: Gadinger, Frank, Scholte, Jan Aart
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2023
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Edition:1
Subjects:
governance
governing
interdisciplinarity
legitimacy
methodology
Political science
Political structure and processes
Politics and government
polycentrism
power
Public administration
Society and Social Sciences
techniques
ISBN:9780192866837, 0192866834
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- PART I. INTRODUCTION -- 1. An Introduction to Polycentric Governing -- 2. Historicizing Polycentric Governing -- 3. Undoing Coloniality? Polycentric Governing and Refugee Spaces -- PART II. ORGANIZATIONAL APPROACHES -- 4. Institutional Complexity and Political Agency in Polycentric Governance -- 5. Polycentric Governing and Polycentric Governance -- 6. Transnational Governance: Polycentric Interactions -- PART III. LEGAL APPROACHES -- 7. Taming Polycentric Governing: Global Administrative Law's Reformist Ambition -- 8. Law's Governing Centres: A Global Sociolegal Approach -- 9. Transnational Legal Realism: The Polycentric Workings of Power within Law -- PART IV. RELATIONAL APPROACHES -- 10. Fields, Trajectories, and Symbolic Power: Studying Practices of Polycentric Governing with Bourdieu -- 11. Governing Assemblages: Territory, Technology, and Traps -- 12. Governing Assemblages: Territory, Technology, and Traps -- PART V. STRUCTURAL APPROACHES -- 13. Polycentric Governing: A Marxist Interpretation -- 14. A Governmentality Perspective on Polycentric Governing -- 15. Polycentric Governing from an Intersectional and Transnational Feminist Perspective: New Openings and Opportunities for Women's Voices from the Global South? -- PART VI. CONCLUSION -- 16. Conclusion: What Does Polycentrism (Not) Reveal about Governing Today? -- Index