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This book addresses key questions about how contemporary society is governed, providing a comprehensive overview of new thinking about today's 'polycentric' governing. It offers insights from a broad spectrum of academic disciplines and theoretical approaches, and shows how combinations of these perspectives generate novel avenues of research.
List of contents
- Part I. Introduction
- 1: Frank Gadinger and Jan Aart Scholte: An Introduction to Polycentric Governing
- 2: Nina Schneider: Historicizing Polycentric Governing
- 3: Tamirace Fakhoury and Rosalba Icaza: Undoing Coloniality? Polycentric Governing and Refugee Space
- Part II. Organizational Approaches
- 4: Fariborz Zelli, Lasse Gerrits, Ina Möller, and Oscar Widerberg: Institutional Complexity and Political Agency in Polycentric Governance
- 5: Andreas Thiel: Polycentric Governing and Polycentric Governance
- 6: Sigrid Quack: Transnational Governance: Polycentric Interactions
- Part III. Legal Approaches
- 7: Alexis Galán: Taming Polycentric Governing: Global Administrative Law's Reformist Ambition
- 8: Jothie Rajah: Law's Governing Centres: A Global Sociolegal Approach
- 9: Philip Liste: Transnational Legal Realism: The Polycentric Workings of Power within Law
- Part IV. Relational Approaches
- 10: Frank Gadinger: Fields, Trajectories, and Symbolic Power: Studying Practices of Polycentric Governing with Bourdieu
- 11: Christian Bueger and Tobias Liebetrau: Governing Assemblages: Territory, Technology, and Traps
- 12: Alejandro Esguerra: An Actor-Network Perspective on Polycentric Governing
- Part V. Structural Approaches
- 13: Henk Overbeek: A Marxist Interpretation of Polycentric Governing
- 14: Frida Beckman: A Governmentality Perspective on Polycentric Governing
- 15: Marianne H. Marchand: Polycentric Governing from an Intersectional and Transnational Feminist Perspective: New Openings and Opportunities for Women's Voices from the Global South?
- Part VI. Conclusion
- 16: Frank Gadinger and Jan Aart Scholte: Conclusion: What Does Polycentrism (Not) Reveal about Governing Today?
About the author
Frank Gadinger is a Senior Researcher and Research Group Leader at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University of Duisburg-Essen. His main research interests lie in international practice theory, political narratives, critical security studies, visual global politics, (de-)legitimation in world politics, polycentric governing, and the global rise of populism.
Jan Aart Scholte is Professor of Global Transformations and Governance Challenges at Leiden University, and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Cooperation Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen. His research covers polycentric governing, globalization, global governance, civil society in global politics, global democracy, legitimacy beyond the state, and internet governance.
Summary
This book addresses key questions about how contemporary society is governed, providing a comprehensive overview of new thinking about today's 'polycentric' governing. It offers insights from a broad spectrum of academic disciplines and theoretical approaches, and shows how combinations of these perspectives generate novel avenues of research.
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Frank Gadinger and Jan Aart Scholte's Polycentrism offers an outstanding overview of how global governing works today. Its main purpose and greatest achievement is to foster dialogue among different paradigms, and the authors go on to create four ideal paradigms of knowledge. The book offers a comprehensive summary and assessment of the available analytical tools and methodologies that seek to advance our understanding of polycentric governing, understood as the umbrella term for 'theories and practices of regulating society'
