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Introduction : crisis and democracy in the twenty-first century / Benjamin Isakhan and Steven Slaughter -- Decentreing governance : a democratic turn? / Mark Bevir -- The democratic accountability of collaborative innovation in the public sector / Jacob Torfing -- The financial crisis as a crisis of public reasoning / Matthias Goldmann -- Neo-liberal governance and the protest politics of the occupy movement / Daniel Bray -- Governance and democratic legitimacy : the European Union's crisis of de-politicisation / Natalie J. Doyle -- Disintegrating European austerity in Greece and Germany / Roderic Pitty -- Democratising governance after the Arab revolutions : the people, the Muslim Brotherhood and the governance networks of Egypt / Benjamin Isakhan -- Wikileaks and the limits of representative democracy and transnational democratisation / Steven Slaughter -- Global governance, constitutionalism and democracy / Roland Axtmann -- Global unionism and global governance / Andrew Vandenberg -- Climate crises and the limits of liberal democracy? : Germany, Australia and India compared / James Goodman and Tom Morton -- Conclusion :the future of democratic governance / Benjamin Isakhan and Steven Slaughter

The authors confront the puzzle of why the outcomes achieved by the original Empowerment Zones varied so widely given that each city had the same set of federal policy tools and resources and comparable neighborhood characteristics. Their analysis shows that revitalization outcomes are best explained by the quality of local governance

To Kill the King sketches post-traditional consciousness in terms of three rejuvenating concepts - thinking as play, justice as seeking, and practice as art. In a series of critical essays on each of these concepts, the book describes a post-traditional consciousness of governance that can yield enormous improvement in the quality of life for each individual. To Kill the King will appeal to any professor (whether in the post-modern camp or not) who wants to expose students to fresh challenges and insights

"UNICEF is one of the best known organizations of the United Nations system and the oldest of the UN's development funds. It is also the part of the UN which consistently receives support from all countries round the world, including the United States. This book brings out the wider reasons for UNICEF's success and popularity, setting them in the context of UNICEF's evolution since 1946 and drawing lessons for other international organizations. This will be of great interest to all scholars of international organisations, development, human rights and the United Nations system"--

The key difference between success and failure for most governance systems is adaptation, specifically the ability to resolve the existing social, cultural, economic and environmental challenges that constrain adaptation. Local, regional and national systems differ in how they are designed to organize effective participation and create innovative ideas for missions, goals, strategies and actions. They also differ in how they build the effective coalitions needed to adopt, guide and protect strategies and actions during implementation, and how to build competence and knowledge to sustain implem.

Governance and Environment in Western Europe: Politics, Policy and Administration, provides an up-to-date overview of developments in this area focusing on a selection of ten countries in Western Europe and the European Union. The countries examined are: Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The range of countries covered - representing as they do different stages of development in environmental policy, different state and institutional traditions - provides an interesting comparative analysis of how different countries c.

Wie lassen sich schrumpfende Städte gemeinschaftlich gestalten? Wenn große Unternehmen oder Kasernen schließen, folgt wirtschaftlicher Abschwung, Teile der Bevölkerung wandern ab und die Kommune verschuldet sich rasant. Durch das gleichzeitige Auftreten wirtschaftlichen, demografischen und haushalterischen Abschwungs verschlechtern sich das kommunale Erscheinungsbild sowie die Zukunftsaussichten für Bürger und Akteure aus Politik und Gesellschaft. Die Analyse von Akteuren, Strategien sowie von Kooperationsformen in Halle (Saale), Pirmasens und Schwerin zeigt, wie kommunale Struktursch.

In Governance in the Twenty-first Century Canadian and international experts recognize both the difficulty of making predictions and the need to consider the future in order to prepare the public sector for new challenges. The authors' predictions and recommendations are anchored in a thorough understanding of contemporary public administration. They point out that not only have previous reforms made yet more change necessary and inevitable but that the purpose of these reforms is to attempt to return government to the position of respect and competence it enjoyed in the past.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Missing Dimensions of Stateness -- Introduction -- The Contested Role of the State -- Scope versus Strength -- Scope, Strength, and Economic Development -- The New Conventional Wisdom -- The Supply of Institutions -- The Demand for Institutions -- Making Things Worse -- 2. Weak States and the Black Hole of Public Administration -- Introduction -- Institutional Economics and the Theory of Organizations -- The Ambiguity of Goals -- Principals, Agents, and Incentives -- Decentralization and Discretion -- Losing, and Reinventing, the Wheel -- Capacity-Building under Conditions of Organizational Ambiguity: Policy Implications -- 3. Weak States and International Legitimacy -- Introduction -- The New Empire -- The Erosion of Sovereignty -- Nation-Building -- Democratic Legitimacy at an International Level -- Beyond the Nation-State -- 4. Smaller but Stronger -- Bibliography -- Index

International trade liberalization historically has taken many organizational forms--unilateral, bilateral, minilateral, and multilateral. Given the proliferation of normative views about which of these should be pursued, economists and political scientists have devoted surprisingly little attention to the reasons for the observed variation in the chosen forms. This book is the first to develop a single theoretical framework to account for past liberalization practices and also to anticipate ongoing changes in the international organization of trade policy. Growing out of a multidisciplinar

Rethinking Private Authority examines the role of non-state actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing private authority. Jessica Green identifies two distinct forms of private authority--one in which states delegate authority to private actors, and another in which entrepreneurial actors generate their own rules, persuading others to adopt them.Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence spanning a century of environmental rule making, Green shows how the delegation of authority to private actors has played a small but consistent role in multilateral environmental agreements over the past fifty years, largely in the area of treaty implementation. This contrasts with entrepreneurial authority, where most private environmental rules have been created in the past two decades. Green traces how this dynamic and fast-growing form of private authority is becoming increasingly common in areas ranging from organic food to green building practices to sustainable tourism. She persuasively argues that the configuration of state preferences and the existing institutional landscape are paramount to explaining why private authority emerges and assumes the form that it does. In-depth cases on climate change provide evidence for her arguments.Groundbreaking in scope, Rethinking Private Authority demonstrates that authority in world politics is diffused across multiple levels and diverse actors, and it offers a more complete picture of how private actors are helping to shape our response to today's most pressing environmental problems.