附註:"Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation. E.S.R.C., Economic & Social Research Council."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-256) and index.
Introduction: beyond system and society: towards a global polity? / Richard Higgott and Morten Ougaard -- Theorising the global polity -- Global polity research: characteristics and challenges / Morten Ougaard -- The global polity and changes in statehood / Georg Sorensen -- Law in the global polity / A. Claire Cutler -- Societal denationalization and positive governance / Michael Zurn -- Non-state actors in the global polity -- Discursive globalization: transnational discourse communities and New Public Management / Hans Krause Hansen, Dorte Salskov-Iversen and Sven Bislev -- Knowledge networks and policy expertise in the global polity / Diane Stone -- Civil society and governance in the global polity / Jan Aart Scholte -- Prospects and agendas for the global polity in the twenty-first century -- The historical processes of establishing institutions of global governance and the nature of global polity / Craig N. Murphy -- Europe: regional laboratory for a global polity? / Knud Erik Jorgensen and Ben Rosamond -- From global governance to good governance: theories and prospects of democratizing the global polity / Anthony McGrew.
摘要:The role of law, networks and civil society are examined and key theoretical and meta-theoretical questions on how to analyse and theorise the global polity, what drives it forward, and whether it can be democratised are discussed.