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Policies and Processes of Transnational Governance (STG-MA-FCR-PPT)

STG-MA-FCR-PPT

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The seminar begins by asking the question, what is the difference between global governance and transnational governance? It will then proceed to identify, exemplify and analyse different mechanisms – the ‘nuts and bolts’ – of contemporary transnational governance.  

The seminar is organized around four dynamics of transnational policy activity: 

1.    State: inter-state collaboration of government actors (in cross-national networks of legislators, judges and regulators). For example, the growth of city networks and local government cross-national collaboration. Transgovernmentalism 1.;

2.    International Organization: Joint activity of public sector officials and international civil servants for multi-level policy coordination. For example, international organisations (IOs) like the EU, ASEAN, the World Bank, etc collaborating with national government agencies or other IOs. Transgovernmentalism 2.;

3.    Hybrid governance: Alliances across the public-private divide.  Official actors in governments and IOs build formal and informal partnerships with private actors in business and civil society. 

4.    Non-State policy initiatives emerging from civil society or the corporate world and business: For example, the role of private regimes establishing soft law and regulatory standards. 

Across all these dimensions we see the emergence of different kinds of transnational administrators, international civil servants, and global decision makers.   
Although centered in Policy Studies and Public Administration, the course investigates these modalities drawing upon the fields of development studies, economics, international relations (IR), political science, political geography and sociology.  
 

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