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From meditation to action – a research agenda for studying informal global rule-making: remarks on ‘Cosmopolitanism, publicity, and the emergence of a “global administrative law”’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 December 2020

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Oliver Westerwinter*
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland and Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Fiesole FI, Italy
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Abstract

Friedrich Kratochwil engages critically with the emergence of a global administrative law and its consequences for the democratic legitimacy of global governance. While he makes important contributions to our understanding of global governance, he does not sufficiently discuss the differences in the institutional design of new forms of global law-making and their consequences for the effectiveness and legitimacy of global governance. I elaborate on these limitations and outline a comparative research agenda on the emergence, design, and effectiveness of the diverse arrangements that constitute the complex institutional architecture of contemporary global governance.

Keywords

Effectivenessglobal administrative lawinformal governanceinstitutional designlegitimacytransnational public–private governance
Type
Symposium: In the Midst of Theory and Practice: Edited by Hannes Peltonen and Knut Traisbach
Information
International Theory , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , November 2021 , pp. 560 - 566
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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