The Library
Global regulations for a digital economy : between new and old challenges
Tools
Tools
Tools
Beaumier, Guillaume, Kalomeni, Kevin, Campbell‐Verduyn, Malcolm, Lenglet, Marc, Natile, Serena, Papin, Marielle, Rodima‐Taylor, Daivi, Silve, Arthur and Zhang, Falin (2020) Global regulations for a digital economy : between new and old challenges. Global Policy, 11 (4). pp. 515-522. doi:10.1111/1758-5899.12823
|
PDF
WRAP-Global-regulations-digital-economy-between-old-challenges-Beaumier-2020.pdf - Accepted Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Download (416Kb) | Preview |
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12823
Abstract
Digital technologies are often described as posing unique challenges for public regulators worldwide. Their fast‐pace and technical nature are viewed as being incompatible with the relatively slow and territorially bounded public regulatory processes. In this paper, we argue that not all digital technologies pose the same challenges for public regulators. We more precisely maintain that the digital technologies’ label can be quite misleading as it actually represents a wide variety of technical artifacts. Based on two dimensions, the level of centralization and (im)material nature, we provide a typology of digital technologies that importantly highlights how different technical artifacts affect differently local, national, regional and global distributions of power. While some empower transnational businesses, others can notably reinforce states’ power. By emphasizing this, our typology contributes to ongoing discussions about the global regulation of a digital economy and helps us identify the various challenges that it might present for public regulators globally. At the same time, it allows us to reinforce previous claims that these are importantly, not all new and that they often require us to solve traditional cooperation problems.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce K Law [Moys] > KC International Law T Technology > T Technology (General) |
||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Electronic commerce -- International cooperation, Technological innovations -- International cooperation, Information technology -- International cooperation, Technological innovations -- Law and legislation, Electronic commerce -- Law and legislation, Business enterprises -- Data processing -- Technological innovations | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Global Policy | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1758-5899 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 2020 | ||||||||
| Dates: |
|
||||||||
| Volume: | 11 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 515-522 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/1758-5899.12823 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Beaumier, G., Kalomeni, K., Campbell-Verduyn, M., Lenglet, M., Natile, S., Papin, M., Rodima-Taylor, D., Silve, A. and Zhang, F. (2020), Global Regulations for a Digital Economy: Between New and Old Challenges. Glob Policy, 11: 515-522., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12823. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Description: | free access |
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
