Local Governance under the Coalition Government: Austerity, Localism and the 'Big Society'
In: Local government studies, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 21-40
ISSN: 1743-9388
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In: Local government studies, Band 38, Heft 1, S. 21-40
ISSN: 1743-9388
In: International environmental agreements: politics, law and economics, Band 12, Heft 1, S. 85-103
ISSN: 1573-1553
Despite the substantial and likely increasing contribution of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from international shipping and the related adverse impacts on global climate change, GHG emissions from international shipping are yet neither regulated by the Kyoto Protocol, nor through any other legally binding, internationally accepted regulation. This paper is looking into the governance architecture that is currently in place to regulate GHG emissions from international shipping with a view to analyze whether the institutional degree of fragmentation within this architecture is contributing to the current situation where no legally binding, internationally accepted regulation has been set up yet. Following the hypothesis that the degree and the characteristics of governance fragmentation have a crucial impact on the effectiveness and performance of a governance system, this paper focuses on the current architecture of climate change governance in international shipping and the institutional interplay between its actors. Therefore, the analytical framework builds on approaches from international environmental governance, regime theory, institutional interplay, and fragmentation in international governance architectures. Adapted from the source document.
In: Journal of contemporary European studies, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 181-197
ISSN: 1478-2790
In: Revista brasileira de politica internacional, Band 55, S. 9-29
ISSN: 0034-7329
In the last five years, climate change has been established as a central civilizational driver of our time. As a result of this development, the most diversified social processes - as well as the fields of science which study them - have had their dynamics altered. In International Relations, this double challenge could be explained as follows: 1) in empirical terms, climate change imposes a deepening of cooperation levels on the international community, considering the global common character of the atmosphere: and 2) to International Relations as a discipline, climate change demands from the scientific community a conceptual review of the categories designed to approach the development of global climate governance. The goal of this article is to discuss in both conceptual and empirical terms the structure of global climate change governance, through an exploratory research, aiming at identifying the key elements that allow understanding its dynamics. To do so, we rely on the concept of climate powers. This discussion is grounded in the following framework: we now live in an international system under conservative hegemony that is unable to properly respond to the problems of interdependence, among which - and mainly -, the climate issue. Adapted from the source document.
In: International feminist journal of politics, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 321-323
ISSN: 1461-6742
In: Public management review, Band 14, Heft 8, S. 1125-1151
ISSN: 1471-9045
In: Australian journal of public administration, Band 71, Heft 4, S. 440-456
ISSN: 1467-8500
This paper examines corporate governance disclosures on the websites of Australian state government departments. The study focuses on the nature and extent of governance information and the ease of finding this information directly on department websites and also in annual reports which are downloadable from websites. Our sample comprises six departments from each of the six states in Australia, giving a sample size of 36 departments. Our findings indicate considerable variability in both the level of disclosure and the accessibility of the information disclosed. The study also highlights a lack of consensus regarding the meaning of governance and what governance comprises, together with the need for a more structured approach to communicating governance information to stakeholders.
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 111, Heft 442, S. 90-115
ISSN: 0001-9909
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In: Global governance: a review of multilateralism and international organizations, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 133-149
ISSN: 2468-0958, 1075-2846
In: Global governance: a review of multilateralism and international organizations, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 149-171
ISSN: 2468-0958, 1075-2846
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 23, S. 24-34
ISSN: 1462-9011
In: Journal of European integration: Revue d'intégration européenne, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 297-303
ISSN: 1477-2280
In: International theory: a journal of international politics, law and philosophy, Band 4, Heft 3, S. 367-399
ISSN: 1752-9727
Emerging scholarship on global governance offers ever-more detailed analyses of private regulatory regimes. These regimes aim to regulate some area of social activity without a mandate from, or participation of, states or international organizations. While there are numerous empirical studies of these regimes, the normative theoretical literature has arguably struggled to keep pace with such developments. This is unfortunate, as the proliferation of private regulatory regimes raises important issues about legitimacy in global governance. The aim of this paper is to address some of these issues by elaborating a theoretical framework that can orientate normative investigation of these schemes. It does this through turning to the idea of experimentalist governance. It is argued that experimentalism can provide an important and provocative set of insights about the processes and logics of emerging governance schemes. The critical purchase of this theory is illustrated through an application to the case of primary commodities roundtables, part of ongoing attempts by non-governmental organizations, producers, and buyers to set sustainability criteria for commodity production across a range of sectors. The idea of experimentalist governance, we argue, can lend much needed theoretical structure to debates about the normative legitimacy of private regulatory regimes.
In: Politics & policy, Band 40, Heft 5, S. 735-739
ISSN: 1747-1346
In: Government information quarterly: an international journal of policies, resources, services, and practices, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 1-12
ISSN: 0740-624X