This dissertation is motivated by the need, in today's globalist world, for a precise way to
enable governments, organisations and other regulatory bodies to evaluate the constraints …

Managerial devices are rapidly developing as a means for driving the legal behaviour of
organisations, including those of states and corporations. This article explores the …

The thoroughly revised and updated Handbook on Theories of Governance brings together
leading scholars in the field to summarise and assess the diversity of governance theories …

Global governance has created a complex web of public, private and hybrid actors that
assert power, claim legitimacy and affect public interests. This process has generated …

Concepts and approaches come and go in the social sciences. Some of them are more than
passing moments and become steadily growing research areas that attract increasing …

Concepts and approaches come and go in the social sciences. Some of them are more than
passing moments and become steadily growing research areas that attract increasing …

At the beginning of the third decade of the twenty-first century, a myriad of interdependent
and cascading issues challenges the United Nations system and world order like never …

There has not been a retreat but a transformation of the state, involving significant changes
in both the public sphere of politics and the so-called private sphere of economic activity …

This paper explores how elements of public authority are being created through complex
processes of bargaining between state and society actors, and the interaction of formal and …

The legal, regulatory and ethical frameworks guiding governance decisions are highly
politicised and subject to intense debate. This book discusses governance theory in relation …