Over the past two decades, governments have delegated extensive regulatory authority to
international private-sector organizations. This internationalization and privatization of rule …

The legitimacy and accountability of polycentric regulatory regimes, particularly at the
transnational level, has been severely criticized, and the search is on to find ways in which …

Principal-agent theory has been the dominant theory at the heart of public sector
accountability research. The notion of the potentially drifting agent—such as independent …

Historical institutionalist theories of endogenous change have enhanced our understanding
of institutional development by providing a theoretical vocabulary for analyzing how …

Not all international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) are created equal, Some have
emerged as" leading INGOs" that command deference from various powerful audiences and …

Writing with clarity and precision, David Andrew Singer makes a major contribution to our
understanding of the international regulation of capital flows. His puzzle is why different …

The ongoing neoliberalisation of global economies has been well documented.
Neoliberalism requires a commitment to a broad set of ideas about how political economies …

The increasing use of transnational standard-setting bodies to address quality uncertainties
and coordination issues across the global economy raises questions about how these …

The authors studied panel data for corporate governance ratings in 50 countries between
1997 and 2005 to understand what the country-level predictors of corporate governance …

Standards are receiving increasing attention, especially at the transnational level where
standardization aims at coherence and social ordering beyond the nation-state. However …