Polycentrism : : how governing works today / / edited by Frank Gadinger & Jan Aart Scholte.

• Superior document: Oxford scholarship online
• TeilnehmendeR: Gadinger, Frank,; Scholte, Jan Aart,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Oxford University Press,, 2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Oxford scholarship online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (366 pages)
• Notes: "This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution - Non Commercial - No Derivatives 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)"--Title page verso.; Also issued in print: 2023.

This text addresses key questions about how contemporary society is governed, providing a comprehensive overview of new thinking about today's 'polycentric' governing. It offers insights from a broad spectrum of academic disciplines and theoretical approaches, and shows how combinations of these perspectives generate novel avenues of research.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- PART I. INTRODUCTION -- 1. An Introduction to Polycentric Governing -- 2. Historicizing Polycentric Governing -- 3. Undoing Coloniality? Polycentric Governing and Refugee Spaces -- PART II. ORGANIZATIONAL APPROACHES -- 4. Institutional Complexity and Political Agency in Polycentric Governance -- 5. Polycentric Governing and Polycentric Governance -- 6. Transnational Governance: Polycentric Interactions -- PART III. LEGAL APPROACHES -- 7. Taming Polycentric Governing: Global Administrative Law's Reformist Ambition -- 8. Law's Governing Centres: A Global Sociolegal Approach -- 9. Transnational Legal Realism: The Polycentric Workings of Power within Law -- PART IV. RELATIONAL APPROACHES -- 10. Fields, Trajectories, and Symbolic Power: Studying Practices of Polycentric Governing with Bourdieu -- 11. Governing Assemblages: Territory, Technology, and Traps -- 12. Governing Assemblages: Territory, Technology, and Traps -- PART V. STRUCTURAL APPROACHES -- 13. Polycentric Governing: A Marxist Interpretation -- 14. A Governmentality Perspective on Polycentric Governing -- 15. Polycentric Governing from an Intersectional and Transnational Feminist Perspective: New Openings and Opportunities for Women's Voices from the Global South? -- PART VI. CONCLUSION -- 16. Conclusion: What Does Polycentrism (Not) Reveal about Governing Today? -- Index.