Complex Sovereignty : : Reconstituting Political Authority in the Twenty-First Century / / ed. by Edgar Grande, Louis W. Pauly.

• MitwirkendeR: Albert, Mathias,; Beck, Ulrich,; Börzel, Tanja A.,; Clarkson, Stephen,; Coleman, William D.,; Eberlein, Burkard,; Grande, Edgar,; Greven, Michael Th.,; Ladly, Sarah Davidson,; Merwart, Megan,; Pauly, Louis W.,; Peters, B. Guy,; Porter, Tony,; Risse, Thomas,; Skogstad, Grace,; Thorne, Carlton,
• HerausgeberIn: Grande, Edgar,; Pauly, Louis W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; 1. Reconstituting Political Authority: Sovereignty, Effectiveness, and Legitimacy in a Transnational Order --; 2. World Risk Society and the Changing Foundations of Transnational Politics --; 3. Restructuring World Society: The Contribution of Modern Systems Theory --; 4. Governance: A Garbage Can Perspective --; 5. Globality and Transnational Policymaking in Agriculture: Complexity, Contradictions, and Conflict --; 6. Financial Crises, the United Nations, and the Evolution of Transnational Authority --; 7. Reconstituting Political Authority in Europe: Transnational Regulatory Networks and the Informalization of Governance in the European Union --; 8. The Primitive Realities of North America's Transnational Governance --; 9. Public-Private Partnerships: Effective and Legitimate Tools of Transnational Governance? --; 10. The Private Production of Public Goods: Private and Public Norms in Global Governance --; 11. Contested Political Authority, Risk Society, and the Transatlantic Divide in the Regulation of Genetic Engineering --; 12. The Informalization of Transnational Governance: A Threat to Democratic Government --; 13. Complex Sovereignty and the Emergence of Transnational Authority --; References --; Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781442684201
• DOI: 10.3138/9781442684201
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Edgar Grande, Louis W. Pauly.

The way humanity governs itself is today changing very rapidly. Profound transformations in structures of political authority are underway in Europe, North America, and beyond. Nation-states remain central, but they cannot address the most pressing problems facing their own citizens without moving away from traditional understandings of sovereignty itself. Complex Sovereignty contends that just such a movement is underway.Editors Edgar Grande and Louis W. Pauly and the contributors to this volume elucidate the meaning of 'complex sovereignty' through a set of conceptual and empirical studies including governance in the European Union and North America, the emergence of private-public partnerships, the adaptation of established international organizations, and the search for innovative mechanisms to manage risk. They reveal a fascinating and vitally important struggle to give coherence to a complicated governing system of multiple and overlapping hierarchies. This is an original, collaborative study crossing the disciplines of political science, international relations, sociology, and political economy.