Beyond Networks - Interlocutory Coalitions, the European and Global Legal Orders

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-80446-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 192 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 347 g

Reihe: Studies in European Economic Law and Regulation

This

book explores the activism promoted by organised networks of civil society actors

in opening up possibilities for more democratic supranational governance. It

examines the positive and negative impact that such networks of civil society

actors – named “interlocutory coalitions” – may have on the convergence of

principles of administrative governance across the European legal system and

other supranational legal systems.

The

book takes two main controversial aspects into account: the first relates to

the convergence between administrative rules pertaining to different

supranational regulatory systems. Traditionally, the spread of methods of

administrative governance has been depicted primarily against the background of

the interactions between the domestic and the supranational arena, both from a

top-down and bottom-up perspective. However, the exploration of interactions

occurring at the supranational level between legal regimes is still not

grounded on adequate empirical evidence. The second controversial aspect

considered in this book consists of the role of civil society actors operating

at the supranational level. In its discussion of the first aspect, the book

focuses on the relations between the European administrative law and the

administrative principles of law pertaining to other supranational regulatory

regimes and regulators, including the World Bank, the International Monetary

Fund, the World Trade Organization, the United Nations, the Organization for

Economic Cooperation and Development, the Asian Development Bank, and the

Council of Europe. The examination of the second aspect involves the

exploration of the still little examined, but crucial, role of civil society

organised networks in shaping global administrative law. These “interlocutory

coalitions” include NGOs, think tanks, foundations, universities, and

occasionally activists with no formal connections to civil society organisations.

The book describes such interlocutory coalitions as drivers of harmonized

principles of participatory democracy at the European and global levels.

However, interlocutory coalitions show a number of tensions (e.g. the

governability of coalitions, the competition among them) that may hamper the impact

they have on the reconfiguration of individuals’ rights, entitlements and

responsibilities in the global arena.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sgueo, Gianluca

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Nichtregierungsorganisation (NGOs)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Verwaltungs-, Umwelt- und Gesundheitsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 A Framework for Interactions between National, European and
Global Administrative Systems of Law.- 2 The Emergence of Civil Society Networks.- 3 The Interlocutory Coalitions: Composition, Governance and
Supranational Stance.- 4 The Activities of Interlocutory Coalitions: Mediation,
Rule-Making and Implementation.- 5 Cooperation between Supranational Regulators and
Interlocutory Coalitions. Issues of Accountability and Legitimacy.- 6 Interlocutory Coalitions and Policy Convergence.- 7 Beyond Networks. The Interlocutory Coalitions and
Globalization Of Democracy.- Synoptic Table.- Index.