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The Ebb and Flow of Global Governance challenges the traditionally dichotomous distinction between international intergovernmental organizations and international nongovernmental organizations. Alexandru Grigorescu argues that international organizations are best understood as falling on an 'intergovernmental-nongovernmental continuum'. The placement of organizations on this continuum is determined by how much government involvement factors into their decision-making, financing, and deliberations. Using this fine-grained conceptualization, Grigorescu uncovers numerous changes in the intergovernmental versus nongovernmental nature of global governance over the past century and a half. These changes are due primarily to ideological and institutional domestic shifts in powerful states. The Ebb and Flow of Global Governance assesses the plausibility of these arguments through archival research on a dozen organizations from the global health, labor, and technical standards realms. Grigorescu concludes that there has been a continuous ebb and flow in world politics, rather than an inexorable movement towards greater roles for nongovernmental actors, as existing literature argues.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Systems Approaches and Collaborative Governance as Included in This Volume -- Group Model Building as an Approach to Collaborative Modeling -- Dynamic Performance Management -- The Contents of the Volume -- References -- About the Editors -- Part I: Systems Approaches to Collaborative Governance Networks and Policy Implementation -- Chapter 1: Applying Governing Networks and Multilevel Scales to Address Wicked Problems -- 1.1 The Rise of Governance Networks -- 1.2 Multisector Networks and the Importance of Scales -- 1.3 The Application of Network Scales -- 1.3.1 Monocentric Governance -- 1.3.2 Polycentric Governance -- 1.3.3 Multilevel Governance -- 1.3.4 Adaptive Governance -- 1.4 Scalar Politics and Reconsideration of New Public Management and Networks -- 1.5 Methods: Participatory Action Research -- 1.6 Case Study and Discussion: Governance Challenges with Addressing Street-Level Trafficked Women -- 1.7 Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- References -- Chapter 2: Participative Governance of the Swiss Construction Material Industry: Transitioning Business Models and Public Policy -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Theoretical Background -- 2.3 Methodology -- 2.3.1 Step 1: Group Model Building -- 2.3.2 Step 2: Participatory Business Model Analysis -- 2.3.3 Step 3: Synthesis -- 2.4 Case Study -- 2.4.1 Dominant Construction Material Regime -- 2.4.1.1 Federal Waste Management Policy -- 2.4.1.2 Planning of Extraction and Disposal Volumes -- 2.4.1.3 Recycling in Public Procurement -- 2.4.1.4 Business Models -- 2.5 Discussion -- 2.5.1 Mental Models Stabilise Regime Dynamics -- 2.5.2 Top-Down Goal-Setting Versus Local Implementation -- 2.5.3 Systemic Niche Incubation -- 2.5.4 Legitimacy of Business Models -- 2.6 Conclusion -- 2.6.1 Operationalising Transition Management.

Is there any hope for those who despair at the state of the world and the powerlessness of governments to find a way forward? Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century provides ambitious but reasonable proposals to give our globalized world the institutions of international governance necessary to address effectively the catastrophic risks facing humanity that are beyond national control. The solution, the authors suggest, is to extend to the international level the same principles of sensible governance that exist in well-governed national systems: rule of law, legislation in the common interest, an executive branch to implement such legislation, and courts to enforce it. The best protection is unified collective action, based on shared values and respect for diversity, to implement widely accepted international principles to advance universal human prosperity and well-being. This title is also available as Open Access.

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Governing the Binational Commons / Tony Payan and Pamela L. Cruz -- PART I. FRAMING INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENTAT THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER -- 1. Place and Space Governance at the U.S.-Mexico Border (1944-2017) / Sergio Peña -- 2. Defining the Border and the Borderlands: A Precondition for Institutional Development? / Tony Payan and Pamela L. Cruz -- 3. Data for U.S.-Mexico Border Studies: A Comparison of U.S. and Mexican Data Collection and Distribution / James Gerber and Jorge Eduardo Mendoza Cota -- PART II. ISSUES, ACTORS, AND STRUCTURES AT THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER -- 4. Collaborative Social Networks: An Exploratory Study of the U.S.-Mexico Border / Víctor Daniel Jurado Flores and Cecilia Sarabia Ríos -- 5. Governing the Borderlands Commons: Local Actors at Work / Manuel A. Gutiérrez and Kathleen Staudt -- 6. Environmental Governance at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Institutions at Risk / Irasema Coronado and Stephen Mumme -- 7. Health Institutions at the U.S.-Mexico Border / Eva M. Moya, Silvia M. Chavez-Baray, and Miriam S. Monroy -- 8. From the Institutional to the Informal: Security Cooperation Between the United States and Mexico / Octavio Rodríguez Ferreira -- 9. U.S.-Mexico Law Enforcement and Border Security Cooperation: An Institutional-Historical Perspective / Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera and Evan D. McCormick -- 10. Transportation Institutions Along the U.S.-Mexico Borde / Kimberly Collins -- 11. Human Mobility at the U.S.-Mexico Border / Tony Payan, Pamela L. Cruz, and Carla Pederzini Villarreal -- 12. Governance and Energy Trade on the U.S.-Mexico Border / Adrián Duhalt -- Conclusion: Uneven Institutional Development and Governance at the U.S.-Mexico Border / Tony Payan -- Contributors -- Index.

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Intro -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Contributors -- 1. Designing governance structures for performance and accountability: Developments in Australia and greater China -- 2. Theorising public bureaucracies: Comparing organisational purpose, function and form, while counter-posing political control versus bureaucratic autonomy -- 3. How independent should administration be from politics? Theory and practice in public sector institutional design in Australia -- 4. Governance structure, organisational reform and administrative efficiency: Lessons from Taiwan

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