PUBLIC GOVERNANCE IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION; ED. BY KARL-HEINZ LADEUR

Globalization and its relationship to public governance is one of the key issues of our time. In this book, experts from a number of disciplines attempt to define what these two terms mean and, perhaps even more importantly, what they do not. Taking as a starting point that globalization is neither the take-over of political power by multi-national 'stateless' enterprises, nor the chaotic unstructured process of dissolution of public order, the contributors suggest that what is occurring is more institutionalized than many critics would admit. It is argued that there are important transnational and supra-national elements of a new public order, which remain beyond the traditional borders of the state, but not completely beyond the state as such. Globalization, as opposed to former developments in the internationalization of the economy, is characterized by its transnational form, i.e. it is based on exchange processes which, to a greater or lesser degree, bypass both the state and the traditional international character of the world economy of the past.

ladeur (public Law, U. Of Hamburg, Germany) And His Contributors Generally Find That The Democratic Deficit And The Undermining Of Nation-state Sovereignty Warned Of By Anti-globalization Critics To Be Overstated, Finding A Globalization To Be Institutionalized In A Way That Is More Responsive To Public Governance Than Many Claim. Over The Course 13 Papers They Explore These Forms Of Institutionalization Discussing The Relationship Between Public And Private Sectors; Changes Of Law And The State; Military Changes; And Economic Organization. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, Or

This book is devoted to the analysis of the difficult relationship between 'globalization' and 'public governance'.