A theory of global governance. Authority, legitimacy, and contestation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zürn, Michael, 1959- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; A Theory of Global Governance: Authority, Legitimacy, and Contestation; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Figures and Tables; Figures; Tables; Abbreviations; Introduction: Global Governance in Hard Times; Global Governance; The Global Governance System; Legitimation Problems; Behavioral Implications; Decline or Deepening; Theoretical Building Blocks and Causal Mechanisms; The Road Ahead; Part I: The Global Governance System; 1. Normative Principles; 1.1 Global Common Goods; 1.2 Individual Rights and Entitlements of Non-state Actors
  • 1.2.1 Individuals and Societies as Addressees of Justification1.2.2 Individual Rights as an Element of Conditional Sovereignty; 1.3 The Possibility of International Authority; 2. Reflexive Authorities; 2.1 Public Authority as a Core Concept of the Political; 2.2 Conceptions of Public Authority; 2.2.1 Contracted Authority; 2.2.2 Inscribed Authority; 2.3 Reflexive Authority; 2.3.1 Reflexivity and its Epistemic Foundations; 2.3.2 Requests; 2.3.3 Perpetuation and Legitimation; 2.4 Two Types of Authority in Global Governance; 2.4.1 Political Authority; 2.4.2 Epistemic Authority
  • 2.5 The Relationships between Authorities2.5.1 Loosely Coupled Spheres of Authority; 2.5.2 Weak Separation of Powers; 2.6 Conclusion; 3. Legitimation Problems; 3.1 The Authorityâ#x80;#x93;Legitimation Link; 3.2 Sources of Legitimacy: The Impartial Pursuit of a Shared Social Purpose; 3.3 Legitimation Narratives; 3.3.1 Participatory Narrative; 3.3.2 Legal Narrative; 3.3.3 Fairness Narrative; 3.3.4 The Technocratic Narrative; 3.3.5 The Traditional Narrative; 3.3.6 Relative Gains Narrative; 3.3.7 Manipulative Narrative; 3.4 Legitimation Problem I: Technocratic Bias
  • 3.5 Legitimation Problem II: Biased Exercise of Authority4. The Theoretical Model; 4.1 Historical Institutionalism; 4.2 Reactive Sequences; 4.3 The Authorityâ#x80;#x93;Legitimation Link; 4.3.1 State Contestation; 4.3.2 Societal Contestation; 4.3.3 Four Causal Mechanisms; 4.3.4 And Six Propositions; Part II: The Contestation of Global Governance; 5. The Rise of the Global Governance System: A Historical-Institutionalist Account; 5.1 Empirical Patterns of International Authority; 5.2 The End of the Second World War as a Critical Juncture; 5.2.1 Embedded Liberalism; 5.2.2 Prohibition on the Use of Force
  • 5.3 The Self-Reinforcement of Post-Second World War Institutions5.4 Reactive Sequences and Transnational Norm Entrepreneurs; 5.5 The Fall of the Wall and the Rise of the Global Governance System; 5.6 Public Authority in the Global Governance System; 5.6.1 The Development of Political Authority; 5.6.2 The Development of Epistemic Authority; 5.7 Releasing Functional Differentiation; 5.8 Conclusion; 6. The Politicization of Authority beyond the Nation State; 6.1 What is Politicization?; 6.2 Why is there Politicization? What are its Effects?; 6.3 The Politicization of the European Union