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Browsing Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) by Subject "governance"
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Title:The Governance Gap: Globalization and the crisis of democracy in the west
Author(s):KUPCHAN, Charles A.Date:2012Type of Publication:OtherSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCAS PPAbstract:A crisis of governability has engulfed the world’s industrialized democracies. It is not coincidental that the United States, Europe, and Japan are simultaneously experiencing political breakdown. Rather, globalization is ...
Title:Mobilizing Cities towards a Low Carbon Future: Tambourines, Carrots and Sticks
Author(s):MEEUS, Leonardo; DELARUE, ErikDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In the transition towards a decarbonized energy system, we need city authorities to lead by example as
public actors, to govern the actions of the private urban actors as local policy makers, and to conceive
and manage ...
Title:The Security-Politics-Development Nexus: The Lessons of State-Building in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author(s):TSCHIRGI, NeclaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:How can development policy support weak, dysfunctional or fragile states? What constitutes state
fragility and what are the appropriate instruments for state-building? After reviewing two recent
quantitative indexes (The ...
Title:Regulatory Governance and the Challenge of Constitutionalism
Author(s):SCOTT, ColinDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The late twentieth century witnessed significant shifts in the institutions and processes of governance
in most members states of the OECD, as direct provision (sometimes characterised as welfare state
governance) was, ...
Title:Institution [Un]Building: Decentralising Government and the Case of Rwanda
Author(s):MCCONNELL, JesseDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The challenge of institution building in African countries remains a major threat to the establishment
of peace and justice, and the entrenchment of sustainable social and economic development. This may
be attributed ...
Title:Self-Regulation by Associations: Collective Action Problems in European Environmental Regulation
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; ECKERT, SandraDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:How and to what effect do firms coordinate their actions in order to deal with the negative external effects of productive activity? Under which conditions do firm associations engage in environmental self-regulation and ...
Title:New Modes of Governance in the Shadow of Hierarchy: Self-Regulation by Industry in Europe
Author(s):HERITIER, Adrienne; ECKERT, SandraDate:2007Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In technically complex areas, political actors increasingly rely on private actors to shape public policy. This is due to the greater expertise of the private actors, mostly industry. This article theorizes and empirically ...