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Book Review: Rethinking Participation In Global Governance: Voice And Influence After Stakeholder Reforms In Global Finance And Health, Melinda (M.J.) Durkee
Book Review: Rethinking Participation In Global Governance: Voice And Influence After Stakeholder Reforms In Global Finance And Health, Melinda (M.J.) Durkee
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Who is entitled to contribute to rulemaking at the international or transnational levels? "Rethinking Participation in Global Governance takes an empirical tack," confronting the important and understudied—but methodologically confounding—question of how effectively to improve the representativeness of global governance. The volume’s carefully constructed qualitative studies offer a wealth of insights but few systematic or easily generalizable answers. Nevertheless, the book has much to offer, describing models and techniques to expand participation, offering examples of how various actors in the Global South were able to make use of them, then embedding this description in the push and pull of a scholarly …
Asian Land Conflicts And The Great Transformation, Brian Z. Tamanaha
Asian Land Conflicts And The Great Transformation, Brian Z. Tamanaha
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In The Great Transformation (1944), Karl Polanyi described the modern era in terms of the transformation of labor, land, and money into commodities, and the expansion of the market as the basic organizing principle of society—a transformation championed by liberal economic theory. This transformation brought enormous social dislocation and mass poverty, while the wealthy benefited the most. Polanyi opposed the nigh total destruction of traditional communities that had previously given meaning to peoples’ lives, and the dismal living conditions and economic insecurity of laboring masses that resulted. Central elements of Polanyi’s account are playing out today across the terrain of …