Private Governance and Public Authority

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-49047-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 335 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 608 g

Reihe: Business and Public Policy

At a time of significant concern about the sustainability of the global economy, businesses are eager to display responsible corporate practices. While rulemaking for these practices was once the prerogative of states, businesses and civil society actors are increasingly engaged in creating private rulemaking instruments, such as eco-labeling and certification schemes, to govern corporate behavior. When does a public authority intervene in such private governance and reassert the primacy of public policy? Renckens develops a new theory of public-private regulatory interactions and argues that when and how a public authority intervenes in private governance depends on the economic benefits to domestic producers that such intervention generates and the degree of fragmentation of private governance schemes. Drawing on European Union policymaking on organic agriculture, biofuels, fisheries, and fair trade, he exposes the political-economic conflicts between private and public rule makers and the strategic nature of regulating sustainability in a global economy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Renckens, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: public-private governance interactions; 2. Explaining public interventions in private governance; 3. Organic agriculture; 4. Biofuels; 5. Fair trade; 6. Fisheries; 7. Evaluating public interventions in private governance; Appendix. Interviews; Endnotes; References; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Renckens, Stefan
Stefan Renckens is Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department of the University of Toronto. His research examines the political economy of transnational private sustainability governance and public-private governance interactions. He holds a Ph.D. in Global Environmental Politics from Yale University. His Ph.D. dissertation received the American Political Science Association's best dissertation award in Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics (2015). He also holds master's degrees in political science, economic policy, and conflict and peace studies. He has received research grants from the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the US National Science Foundation, and the Research Foundation Flanders.