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Globalization and governance: from statism to polycentrism
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Scholte, Jan Aart (2004) Globalization and governance: from statism to polycentrism. Working Paper. Coventry: University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation. Working papers (University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation) (No.130).
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Abstract
This paper explores the implications of globalization for governance. It argues that the contemporary large-scale and accelerated growth of transworld connectivity has rendered the statist mode of governance unviable and encouraged the emergence of polycentric (multi-sited and networked) regulation. States remain crucial nodes in this polycentric governance, although globalization has spurred several important shifts in their attributes. Meanwhile, globalization has opened considerable possibilities for substate (municipal and provincial) authorities to engage directly with realms beyond their state. Inadequacies of the state as a sole site for the governance of global relations have also promoted a growth of suprastate (regional and transworld) sites of regulation. In addition, contemporary globalization and the currently prevailing neoliberal policy framework have encouraged a major expansion of private sites of governance. Civil society has followed the trend from statism to polycentrism by shifting its focus from the state alone to a multi-layered and diffuse governance apparatus.
Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JZ International relations J Political Science > JC Political theory |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Globalization -- Political aspects, Civil society, Political science, International relations | ||||
Series Name: | Working papers (University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation) | ||||
Publisher: | University of Warwick. Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation | ||||
Place of Publication: | Coventry | ||||
Official Date: | January 2004 | ||||
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Number: | No.130 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 51 | ||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) |
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