From "Iron Triangles" to "Golden Pentangles"? Globalizing the Policy Process

In: Global governance: a review of multilateralism and international organizations, Band 7, Heft 4, S. 397-410

Abstract

In response to increasing globalization, new models that show how factors & actors interact are being suggested. One of the older models, the iron triangles, symbolically represent the Second Industrial Revolution & its three sides represent politicians, bureaucrats, & interests. That model is being replaced with the golden pentangles model that includes the three sides from the iron triangles but also includes the highly institutionalized activities of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, & the World Trade Organization as one of the new sides, & the interlocking web of governance composed of mixed public/private sector quasi-institutions & nonstate actors as the remaining. This model has a tendency to be more elitist because the actors will be transnationally linked but at the same time increases competition between the groups that limits the chances for a monolithic state. Research will further the understanding of the structure of the golden pentangles. R. Larsen