Transnational Actors in Global Governance: Patterns, Explanations and Implications (Democracy Beyond the Nation State? Transnational Actors and Global Governance) - Hardcover

Jönsson, Christer; Tallberg, Jonas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230239056 ISBN 13: 9780230239050

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

Synopsis

The nature of global governance is changing, as are the standards by which we judge its legitimacy. We are witnessing a gradual and partial shift from inter-state co-operation to more complex forms of governance, involving participation by transnational actors, such as NGOs, party associations, philanthropic foundations and corporations.

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About the Author

HANS AGNÉ is Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden, and Associate Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs JENS BARTELSON is Professor of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden ÅSA CASULA VIFELL is a researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History at Södertörn University, Sweden and at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University, Sweden JESSICA F. GREEN is a Doctoral Candidate at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, USA SARA KALM is Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden ANDREA LIESE is Professor of International Organizations and Public Policy at the University of Potsdam, Germany SOFIA NÄSSTRÖM is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University, Sweden JENS STEFFEK is Professor of Transnational Governance at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany and Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence 'The Formation of Normative Orders,' hosted by the University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230239056
• ISBN 13: 9780230239050
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 274