This book brings together some of the finest minds of social science to answer the great questions about the future of the liberal order. With contributions from the world of economics, sociology, political science, management, international relations and the humanities, this book provides a unique series of insights. Chapters explore the great questions of our time as they relate to the future of the liberal international and domestic order. Contemporary issues such as populisms, authoritarianism, trust and social cohesion, the future of global governance, finance, religion, and citizenship are addressed along with geopolitical implications and with a balance between expert authority and open-minded critique. It will be essential reading for students, scholars, and reflective practitioners across the human and social sciences.
pt. I Introduction -- 1. Governance: Issues and Frameworks / Helmut K. Anheier and Regina A. List -- pt. II Financial and Fiscal Governance -- 2. Financial and Fiscal Governance: An Introduction / Mark Hallerberg -- 3. Picking Up (and Rearranging) the Pieces: The Politics of Global Financial Governance in the Wake of the Great Recession / Mark S. Copelovitch -- 4. Is European Union Governance Ready to Deal with the Next Financial Crisis? / Lucia Quaglia -- 5. The Fiscal Policy Implications of Balance of Payments Imbalances / Stefanie Walter -- 6. The Political Sources of Crisis Situations / William Roberts Clark and Vincent Arel-Bundock -- pt. III Governance Innovations -- 7. The Contribution of Innovation Research to Understanding Governance Innovation: A Review / Helmut K. Anheier and Mark T. Fliegauf -- 8. Financial Governance Through the Lens of Innovation / Helmut K. Anheier and Mark T. Fliegauf -- pt. IV Governance Indicators -- 9. Governance Indicators: Some Proposals / Piero Stanig and Mark Kayser -- 10. Public---Private Sector Relationships, Capture, and Governance Quality / Klaus J. Brösamle -- 11. Governance Beyond the Nation-state: Estimating Governance Indexes at the Subnational and Transnational Level / Piero Stanig
AbstractThe Berggruen Governance Index (BGI) is a new and innovative entry into the crowded domain of quantitative governance research. In its effort to contribute to the field, the BGI builds off of and acts in dialogue with several other governance indicator projects from across the globe. As part of a collaborative outlook, the BGI convened the first of three symposia at the UCLA Luskin School in October 2022, titled 'Advancing Governance Indicator Systems: The 2022 Conference'. The event invited representatives from other indicator projects to share their thoughts on the BGI, present their own projects and discuss avenues for further research and development of 'planetary' indicators. This article discusses the highlights and key contributions from the conference.
Nominally, the social sciences maintain the ideological aspiration of a unified, global endeavor for a better understanding of human societies, their economies, cultures, and polities. Over 150 years after their founding period, there is significant fragmentation and unevenness in this quest to understand the human condition. Distinct hierarchies and exclusionary structures emerged between the "West" and regions like Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, China and India and many parts of Asia. Some countries, even entire regions, are terra incognita from a Western vantage point and relegated to "area studies." At the same time, distinct social science traditions have formed in countries and regions outside the West, with a new interest in developing approaches that rely less on Western foundations and conventional academic practices. The questions become: Are the social sciences drifting further apart, or is there a possibility of greater dialogue, even cohesiveness, to advance our knowledge and understanding globally rather than only in some regions or countries? And if so, why, how, and for what? What are the main foci in research and teaching? What is the degree of institutionalization, and how could the global, regional, and national potentials of the social sciences be better realized? To approach these questions, Global Perspectives launches systematic assessments of the state and the potential of the social sciences in different parts of the world. They address five key issue clusters: Western hegemony and fragmentation; basic conceptual and epistemological considerations; ideologies and normative foundations; academic freedom; and professionalization and commercialization. Given the significant scale and complex scope of the social sciences with their many specific subfields, methodologies, and curricula as well as varying degrees of professional institutionalization and different political backgrounds, the special collections present reflective essays on the state and the potential of the social sciences rather than comprehensive empirical stock-taking.
What model is best to drive societies forward, and with Ira Katznelson we ask: what are the best conditions for affecting the sustained contributions of schools of public policy to problem‐solving?
AbstractInitially created as schools of public administration to help consolidate and advance the functioning of the expanding nation state, these institutions evolved into public policy or governance schools over time. As they evolved, they encountered many tensions inherent in a triad of "management and administration – policy analysis and academia – policy making and politics". Each of the triad corners represents a distinct and relatively powerful constituency: academia mostly interested in analytics; public administrators eager to optimise processes; and policy makers looking for actionable answers. For the most part, schools managed to negotiate the tensions inherent in the triad, but they now face a series of new challenges that will require them to change substantially to maintain their relevance. The article discusses the evolution of public policy schools, presents the reasons behind current challenges and offers several recommendations.