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1. Governance : definitions and conceptual framework -- 2. Deconstructing the concept of good governance -- 3. Religion and governance : a philosophical inquiry -- 4. Ontological and epistemological sources for Islamic governance -- 5. New approach to the texts : epistemological method-related concerns -- 6. Contributions of Muslim scholars in the development of knowledge base for governance -- 7. Architectonics of Islamic governance : locating the axioms, foundational principles and working mechanism -- 8. Articulation of Islamic governance.

Cover -- Part One: Governance in the European Union -- A. Foundations -- I. The Proto-Constitutional Establishment of European Domestic Policy. Germans and the Conditions for Federal Order in Europe -- II. Law of the European Union: Institutions and Procedures -- III. National Representation in Supranational Institutions: The Case of the European Central Bank -- B. Multi-Level Decision-Making in the EU -- I. Enlargements and their Impact on EU Governance and Decision-Making -- II. European Hesitation: Turkish Nationalism on the Rise? -- III. Limits of Cultural Engineering: Actors and Narratives in the European Parliament's House of European History Project -- C. Governance of External Relations -- I. Mapping out a Euro-Mediterranean Strategy -- II. Transatlantic Leadership in a Multipolar World: The EU Perspective -- III. International Negotiations: The Foundations -- Part two: Regulation in the European Union -- D. Legal Pillars -- I. The Art of Regulation & The Ethics of Competition and State Aid -- II. The Role of the European Council in the European Union's Institutional Framework -- III. Frustration or Success: How to Negotiate EU Law -- E. Sector-Specific Regulation -- I. Cartels and Restrictive Agreements in the Liberalized Telecommunication Sector - EU and National Competition Law Enforcement -- II. Regulating the Railway: Innovative and Competitive Railways in Europe: Infrastructure Usage Charges and the Principle of Non-Discrimination -- III. Competition and the Water Sector -- F. Economic Pillars -- I. Emerging Varieties of Capitalism in the EU New Member Countries of East Central Europe -- II. Economic Security - Key Challenge of the 21st Century -- III. Policies for Coherence and Structural Change: the Quest for Cohesion

This book presents an unorthodox identity economics that approaches social identity through a non-classical psychology. Garai applies the modern physics concept of wave-particle duality to economic psychology, finding a corresponding duality in object-oriented activity and historically generated social identity. These two factors interconnect to create a double-storied structure of social identity and its behavioral manifestations. The book then presents a calculation device for mediating between behavioral and identity economics. Garai then applies all these factors to two socioeconomic systems developed during the second modernization: Bolshevik-type "socialism" and post-Bolshevik "capitalism." In this context, he examines the Eastern Bloc nomenklatura as a duality of bureaucratic and patron-client organization ("state and party") and the establishment of both today's material capitalism and its other half: human capital economics

Verlagsinfo: Wie können kollaborative Aktivitäten in der Verwaltung auf Bundes-, Landes- und kommunaler Ebene unter Nutzung von Web 2.0-basierten E-Government-Angeboten in Interaktion mit dem Bürger so effizient und effektiv organisiert werden, dass auf individueller, staatlicher und gesellschaftlicher Ebene Mehrwert (Public Value) entsteht? Dieser Forschungsbericht gibt differenzierte Antworten hierauf und verweist dabei auf organisationstheoretische Literatur, konzeptionelle Aufarbeitungen von Electronic und Collaborative Governance sowie auf verschieden ausgerichtete Beteiligungsvorhaben und eine großzahlige Erhebung. Zudem werden aus einer qualitativen sowie quantitativen Erhebung Handlungsempfehlungen für die Praxis abgeleitet.

This book critically engages with how formal and informal mechanisms of governance are used across the world. Specifically, it analyzes how the governance mechanisms of formal institutions are questioned, challenged and renegotiated through informal institutions. Whilst there is an emerging body of scholarship focusing on informal practices, this is scattered across a number of disciplines. This edited collection, by contrast, fosters a dialogue on these issues, moving away from monodisciplinary and normative methodologies that view informal institutions and practices simply as temporary economic phenomena. In doing so, the authors provide a wider understanding of how governance is composed of both the formal and the informal, which complement each other but are also constantly in competition. This novel approach will appeal to social scientists, economists, policy-makers, practitioners, and anyone else willing to widen their understanding of how governance works.

"This edited volume provides critical reflections on the interplay between politics and law in an increasingly transnationalized global political economy. It focuses specifically on the energence and operation of new forms of governance that are developing through a variety of transnational contractual practices, institutions, and laws in multiple sectors and areas of economic activity. Interdisciplinary in nature, the volume includes contributions from law, political science, sociology, and international politics, with the focus on the political foundations of transnational contract being both original and pathbreaking. Placing power at the center of the analysis, the volume reveals the heterogeneous landscape of contemporary law-making and the different kinds of politics giving rise to this form of global ordering."--Page iii

This innovative volume gathers some of the world's best scholars to analyse the world's collective international efforts to address globalised threats through global security governance. Addressing global and planetary forms of insecurity that include nuclear weapons, conventional arms, gender violence, climate change, disease, bio weapons, cyber-conflict, children in conflict, crimes against humanity, and refugees, this timely book critiques how they are addressed by global institutions and regimes, and advocates important conceptual, institutional, and policy reforms. This is an invaluable resource for students, scholars and policymakers in international health, security and development.