ISBN:
9780192692276
,
0192692275
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 392 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
320
Keywords:
Political science
;
International cooperation
;
Governance
;
Regierung
;
Mehrebenen-Verflechtung
;
Organisation
;
Reorganisation
;
Verwaltungsgliederung
;
Politische Institution
;
Macht
;
Legitimität
;
Politics and Government
;
Politics & government
Abstract:
How does governing work today? How does society (mis)handle pressing challenges such as armed violence, cultural difference, ecological degradation, economic restructuring, geopolitical shifts, global pandemics, migration flows, and technological change in ways that are (not) democratic, effective, fair, peaceful, and sustainable? This volume addresses these key questions with reference to the theme of 'polycentrism', i.e. the idea that contemporary governing is dispersed, fluctuating, messy, elusive, and headless. Chapters develop this notion of polycentrism from the perspectives of a broad spectrum of academic disciplines and theoretical approaches, offering comprehensive coverage of exciting new thinking about how today's world is (mis)ruled. The book identifies four paradigms of knowledge about polycentric governing - organizational, legal, relational, and structural - and pursues conversations across the divides that normally keep these approaches within separate research communities. These exceptional inter-paradigm exchanges focus particularly on issues of techniques (how governing is done), power (what forces drive governing), and legitimacy (whether governing is rightful). Comparisons between the multiple perspectives on polycentric governing highlight, and help to clarify, the distinctive emphases, potentials, and limitations of each approach. In addition, various combinations of the different theories generate promising novel avenues of thought about polycentrism. The book will allow readers to develop and refine their own understandings of governing today and hence to become more empowered political subjects.
Note:
Register
,
Introduction
,
An introduction to polycentric governing
,
Historicizing polycentric governing
,
Undoing coloniality? : polycentric governing and refugee space
,
Organizational approaches
,
Institutional complexity and political agency in polycentric governance
,
Polycentric governing and polycentric governance
,
Transnational governance : polycentric interactions
,
Legal approaches
,
Taming polycentric governing : global administrative law's reformist ambition
,
Law's governing centres : a global sociolegal approach
,
Transnational legal realism : the polycentric workings of power within law
,
Relational approaches
,
Fields, trajectories, and symbolic power : studying practices of polycentric governing with Bourdieu
,
Governing assemblages : territory, technology, and traps
,
An actor-network perspective on polycentric governing
,
Structural approaches
,
A Marxist interpretation of polycentric governing
,
A governmentality perspective on polycentric governing
,
Polycentric governing from an intersectional and transnational feminist perspective : new openings and opportunities for women's voices from the Global South?
,
Conclusion
,
Conclusion : what does polycentrism (not) reveal about governing today?
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780192866837.001.0001
Permalink
