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global governance research
The global governance programme began in 2003 with a grant from the Ford Foundation.
The programme has several interrelated theoretical, empirical and normative aims.
Theoretically, the project aims to:
(a) Establish a rigorous conception and typology of global governance
(b) Construct an account of emergent international and transnational authority structures and the changing nature and form of authority relations;
Empirically, the project aims to:
(a) Trace the shift from government to multilayered global governance, mapping the significance and extent of public, private and mixed governance arrangements beyond the state;
(b) Assess the evidence that global governance signals the emergence of new forms of authority system;
(c) Document in respect of five policy studies the primary modes, institutions and mechanisms of global rulemaking and implementation;
(d) Identify from the policy studies some of the principal conditions that hinder or sustain effective and accountable global governance.
Normatively, the project aims to:
(a) Consider how democratic norms such as transparency, accountability and participation might be embedded in global policy-making institutions;
(b) Assess the relevance of innovative institutional designs and participatory practices for the conduct of effective global governance.
The research programme aims, in short, to map the transformation of political authority in the global system, and to generate specific proposals for enhancing both the effectiveness and the accountability of all aspects of global governance. The five key domains of global public policy being examined are the promotion of international financial stability, the creation and enforcement of rules in international trade, the fight against global infectious diseases, the elimination of the exploitation of child labour, and the promotion of basic human rights to physical security. In each of these policy domains, the project compares established and new forms of global governance along the dimensions of effectiveness and accountability. The table in appendix 1 lists the governance arrangements (the third and fourth columns) at the heart of the study.
The systematic investigation of the governance arrangement operating in the five issue areas will enable the researchers to gain new insights into crucial questions such as the transparency and responsiveness of supranational and transnational decision-making, the relationship and conflicts between the developed world and the developing world, the blurring of the distinction between public authority and private initiative that is taking place in a number of new sites of power, and the roles and impact of global civil society groups in transnational policy-making and public goods provision. The result will be a set of recommendations and guidelines for reforming global institutions in ways that will enhance their legitimacy and responsiveness to the interests and needs of the broadest range of stakeholders, especially those who are most vulnerable.
Our current research focuses on:
Global Institutional Design (GID)
This project aims to generate proposals for enhancing both the effectiveness
and the accountability of global governance in five key domains of global public policy.
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