The Spectrum of International Institutions : An Interdisciplinary Collaboration on Global Governance

"This book collects and integrates Abbott and Snidal's influential scholarship on indirect global governance, with a new analytical introduction that probes the role of indirect governance techniques in the universe of global governance arrangements. The volume presents the Governance Triangle, a now widely-used figure that demonstrates and helps to assess the proliferation of private and public-private standard-setting organizations, along with new forms of intergovernmental institutions, over recent decades. It then analyzes how intergovernmental organizations, regulatory bodies, and other "global governors" enlist and work through those organizations as intermediaries, so as to govern more effectively and gain knowledge, influence and legitimacy. It demonstrates Abbott's and Snidal's groundbreaking concept of orchestration, a mode of indirect governance in which influential governors catalyze, support, and steer intermediary organizations through wholly voluntary relationships. It also considers their more recent innovations in the theory of indirect governance. These include additional modes of governance, such as co-optation, delegation and trusteeship, as well as the pervasive "Governor's Dilemma" trade-off between a governor's control of its intermediaries and the intermediaries' competence. This book will appeal to scholars and students in multiple disciplines, including international relations, global governance, law, and regulatory studies." This book collects and integrates Abbott and Snidal’s influential scholarship on indirect global governance, with a new analytical introduction that probes the role of indirect governance techniques in the universe of global governance arrangements. Cover 1 Half Title 4 Title Page 6 Copyright Page 7 Table of Contents 8 List of figures 10 List of contributors 12 Acknowledgments and permissions 14 PART I: Introduction 16 1 Institutional diversity and indirect governance 18 PART II: Private institutions and voluntary standards 42 2 International “standards” and international governance 44 3 The governance triangle: regulatory standards institutions and the shadow of the state 67 PART III: Orchestration of public and private institutions 108 4 Strengthening international regulation through Transnational New Governance: overcoming the orchestration deficit 110 5 Orchestration: global governance through intermediaries 155 6 Orchestrating global governance: from empirical findings to theoretical implications 186 7 Two logics of indirect governance: delegation and orchestration 213 PART IV: Beyond orchestration: governing through public and private intermediaries 226 8 Theorizing regulatory intermediaries: the RIT model 228 9 Competence versus control: the governor’s dilemma 248 Consolidated References 272 Index 294 Private,institutions;,Orchestration;,Global,Governance;,Theoretical,Implications;,Delegation Private institutions,Orchestration,Global Governance,Theoretical Implications,Delegation "This book collects and integrates Abbott and Snidal's influential scholarship on indirect global governance, with a new analytical introduction that probes the role of indirect governance techniques in the universe of global governance arrangements. The volume presents the Governance Triangle, a now widely-used figure that demonstrates and helps to assess the proliferation of private and public-private standard-setting organizations, along with new forms of intergovernmental institutions, over recent decades. It then analyzes how intergovernmental organizations, regulatory bodies, and other "global governors" enlist and work through those organizations as intermediaries, so as to govern more effectively and gain knowledge, influence and legitimacy. It demonstrates Abbott's and Snidal's groundbreaking concept of orchestration, a mode of indirect governance in which influential governors catalyse, support, and steer intermediary organizations through wholly voluntary relationships. It also considers their more recent innovations in the theory of indirect governance. These include additional modes of governance, such as co-optation, delegation and trusteeship, as well as the pervasive "Governor's Dilemma" trade-off between a governor's control of its intermediaries and the intermediaries' competence"-- Provided by publisher