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Einführung: Gegenstand, Aufbau, Lernziele -- Liberale Weltordnung (WO) -- Annäherung an das GG-Konzept – Definitionen -- GG – Sicherung und Gewährleistung globaler Öffentlicher Güter (GÖG) -- Normative Strömungen in der GG-Theorie -- Institutionalisierung von Autorität auf der überstaatlichen Politikebene -- Governancebereiche -- GG-Institutionen: Organisationen, Regime, Netzwerke -- Geteilte Autorität und Aufgaben globaler Governance -- Strukturanalyse von GG-Systemen -- Politische Merkmale von GG-Systemen -- Klimagovernance – ein Beispiel -- Zusammenfassender Ausblick.

This title explores the reality of equality and non-discrimination within the EU. It includes case studies from the two main directives in relation to equality laws and shows how they have been implemented. This book also identifies indicators that facilitate compliance monitoring among Member States and candidate countries.

The book offers a critical map to navigate the field of media governance. A thread of cosmopolitan critique connects the fourteen chapters to enhance media governance literature beyond the West and regional foci. The first part addresses the epistemological and ontological flaws in the use and adaptation of media governance. The second part opens pathways for critique and provides a thorough understanding of the ambivalences that scholars encounter when addressing media governance as a field of study. The third part highlights shortcomings like geographical narrowness and tensions in the use of media governance concepts. The scholarly contributions show that media governance as a field of study is far from being established: its conceptualizations are in flux and need scholarly self-reflection, and ongoing discussions need to leave behind universalist conceptualizations and methods of analysis. The chapters reflect on hegemony, power, sovereignty, and identity as conceptual center points in media governance research. The book uniquely breaks with self-referential Western academia and is part of ongoing collaborative scholarly efforts towards epistemic transformation through dialogue. Sarah Anne Ganter is Assistant Professor of Communication and Cultural Policy in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Her work is influenced by a cosmopolitan approach to academic work, integrating scholarly work from different cultural, linguistic and geographical academic settings She has published widely on media governance, digital policy and regulation, and journalism, and analyzes media and digital policy transformations from a theoretical perspective that focuses on the dynamics and interactions shaping institutional fields. Her work is published in scholarly journals, international book projects, including the co-authored book "The Power of Platforms: Shaping Media and Society." Hanan Badr is Professor for Public Spheres and Inequalities at the Department of Communication, University of Salzburg, Austria. Her work focuses comparing media systems, diversifying communication research, globalization and digitization transform journalism and She held positions at Freie Universitat Berlin, Cairo University, Gulf University for Sciences and Technology and Orient-Institut Beirut. Her work was published in Digital Journalism, International Communication Gazette, Media & Communication and Media, War & Conflict. Hanan won awards including the Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress and the DAAD Scholarship Award. She was elected as a Vice-Chair for the Activism, Communication and Social Change at the International Communication Association and serves as Regional Liasion Coordinator for AEJMC International Communication Division ICD.

This book provides insights into current issues in corporate governance by examining twelve cases from the 2010s and 2020s where corporate governance was seen to be an issue. The cases are designed to introduce the reader to real life episodes with corporate governance implications, shedding light on why corporate scandals continue to occuer, to what extent these are a corporate governance failure, and in which ways corporate governance and the behaviour of those involved in ensuring good governance and an ethical culture in their business - may be improved in the future. This book will be of interest to businesspeople, students of business, and lawyers and motivate discussion on the reasons why corporate governance failed, or was seen to be inadequate. Professor Jean Jinghan Chen joined the University of Macau in 2018 as a Chair Professor in Accounting and Finance and the Dean of Faculty of Business Administration. Prior to joining the University of Macau, Professor Jean Chen worked in the UK Higher Education Sector for almost 30 years. She was a Chair Professor of Accounting and Finance in the University of Southampton, at the University of Surrey and at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University.

The book is the first attempt to investigate how and to what extent authoritarian (personalistic) regimes fail to provide fundamental goods and services. For two decades, Russian authorities spent much effort and money to improve health administration, but most success stories are borderline fake. The failure is by design; because personalistic regimes rely on personalized exchanges and bargains instead of impersonal rules and permanent organizations, all actors put self-interest ahead of patients needs. It is a severe problem because authoritarian principals proclaim social betterment as their central goal -- and many Russians take such claims at face value -- but incentivize their agents to imitate progress and tolerate slipshod performance. The benefits of this investigation are three-fold. First, the book provides an analytical framework of bad governance rooted in the rational institutionalist tradition and connected to competence-control theory. Second, it gives a general readership interested in how Russia works a sense of the key political players mindset and the regime-induced constraints under which elites operate. Third, although the book investigates health governance exclusively, its analytical framework is portable to other issue areas and could be applied to explain how and why Russia evolved into an ineffective, coercive, and predatory state under Putins leadership. Vlad Kravtsov is Associate Professor of Political Science & Law at Spring Hill College, the US. .

This Handbook provides the most comprehensive account of energy governance in Europe, examining both energy governance at the European level and the development of energy policy in 30 European countries. Authored by leading scholars, the first part of the book offers a broad overview of the topics of energy research, including theories of energy transitions, strategies and norms of energy policy, governance instruments in the field, and challenges of energy governance. In the second part, it examines the internal and external dimensions of energy governance in the European Union. The third part presents in-depth country studies, which investigate national trajectories of energy policy, including an analysis of the policy instruments and coordination mechanisms for energy transitions. It closes with a comparative analysis of national energy governance. This book is a definitive resource for scholars in energy and climate research as well as decision makers in national governments and EU institutions.

Many forest-related problems are considered relevant today. One might think of deforestation, illegal logging and biodiversity loss. Yet, many governance initiatives have been initiated to work on their solutions. This Element takes stock of these issues and initiatives by analysing different forest governance modes, shifts and norms, and by studying five cases (forest sector governance, forest legality, forest certification, forest conservation, participatory forest management). Special focus is on performance: are the many forest governance initiatives able to change established practices of forest decline (Chloris worldview) or are they doomed to fail (Hydra worldview)? The answer will be both, depending on geographies and local conditions. The analyses are guided by discursive institutionalism and philosophical pragmatism. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

"Based on an in-depth investigation of different regions of China's vast countryside, Improving Village Governance in Contemporary China vividly describes rural governance mechanisms against the background of China's rapid urbanization. China's rural areas vary greatly from region to region with respect to the pace and mode of change. Rural governance in China is decided by how the state transfers resources to villages, and by the linkage between the transfer style and the specific situation of each village. Only when grassroots governance is based on rural democracy (with peasants as the core) can villages become more harmonious"--

This book explains how Latin American countries consolidate economic governance after serious disruptions to their formal and informal policy making routines. It asserts that the process of institutional change that started as a result of such disruptions resulted in complementary institutions, which supported a new consolidated pattern of economic governance. In addition, this work also offers a robust theoretical underpinning to economic governance, independent from performance. Performance figures prominently as a criterion to assess economic governance; however, crises are becoming more frequent and performance does not entirely depend on governments' actions. This book argues that governance in the economic arena depends on the ability and feasibility of limiting the discretion of vested interests over economic policies insofar as these interests can shift the costs of their actions so the rest of the society bears them. Alejandro Angel is Researcher at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil.

"Rapid and transformational actions are evermore urgently needed to achieve a just, resilient, and ecologically sustainable global society, as envisioned and supported by the Sustainable Development Goals. Moreover, dynamic governance approaches are vital for addressing changing and uncertain conditions. At many levels, governance needs to be responsive and flexible, in one word, adaptive. This book provides a state-of-the-art review of the conceptual development of adaptiveness as a key concept in the environmental governance literature, complemented by applications from global, regional, and national levels. It reviews the politics of adaptiveness, investigates which governance processes foster adaptiveness, and discusses how, when, and why adaptiveness influences earth system governance. It is a timely synthesis for students, researchers, and practitioners interested in environmental governance, sustainability, and social change processes. This is one of a series of publications associated with the Earth System Governance Project. For more publications, see www.cambridge.org/earth-system-governance."

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for International Organizations in Global Social Governance -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Architecture of Arguments in Global Social Governance: Examining Populations and Discourses of International Organizations in Social Policies -- Introduction -- Studying IOs and Social Policy -- Global Governance of Social Policy Fields -- Global Governance as IO Involvement in Social Policy Fields -- Populations of IOs: Organizational Field and Institutional Design -- Organizational Field: Topography of IOs -- Institutional Design: Intrinsic Features of IOs -- Discourses of IOs: Cognitive Authority and Soft Governance -- Cognitive Authority: Legitimacy and Reputation of IOs -- Soft Governance: IOs as Broadcasters of Ideas and Policies -- Structure of the Book -- References -- Part II: Labor and Migration -- Chapter 2: International Organizations' Involvement in Youth Unemployment as a Global Policy Field, and the Global Financial Crisis -- Introduction -- Mapping the IO 'Population' and Discourses -- Dominant Actors: The Policy Discourses of the ILO and World Bank -- Other Significant Actors: UNESCO's and OECD's Policy Discourses -- Recent Entrants: UNICEF's and IMF's Policy Discourses -- Partnerships and IOs: Disseminating Knowledge, Ideas and Discourses -- Collaboration, Cooperation, Separation: Endogenous Partnership -- Coexistence, Contestation, Division: Exogenous Partnership -- Concluding Comments -- References -- Chapter 3: International Organizations and Global Labor Standards -- Introduction -- Mapping the Population and Discourses of IOs Active in the Field of Global Labor Standards -- The International Labour Organization: The Promoter of Labor Standards as a Social Project.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1983.