Friday, September 25, 2009

Peters et al.: Non-State Actors as Standard Setters

Anne Peters, Lucy Koechlin, Till Förster, & Gretta Fenner Zinkernagel (all, Basel Institute on Governance) have published Non-State Actors as Standard Setters (Cambridge Univ. Press 2009). Contents include:
  • Anne Peters, Lucy Koechlin, & Gretta Fenner Zinkernagel, Non-state actors as standard-setters: framing the issue in an interdisciplinary fashion
  • Dieter Neubert, Local and regional non-state actors on the margins of public policy in Africa
  • Dan Assaf, Conceptualising the use of public-private partnerships as a regulatory arrangement in critical information infrastructure protection
  • Lucy Koechlin & Richard Calland, Standard-setting at the cutting edge: an evidence-based typology for multi-stakeholder initiatives
  • Lindsey Cameron, New standards for and by private military companies?
  • Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay, & Massimo Mastruzzi, Governance matters VII: aggregate and individual governance indicators 1996–2007
  • Michael Miklaucic, Contending with illicit power structures: a typology
  • Steven Wheatley, Democratic governance beyond the state: the legitimacy of non-state actors as standard-setters
  • Julia Black, Legitimacy, accountability and polycentric regulation: dilemmas, trilemmas and organisational response
  • Monica Blagescu & Robert Lloyd, Accountability of transnational actors: is there scope for cross-sector principles?
  • Marcus Schaper, Non-state environmental standards as a substitute for state regulation?
  • Till Förster, Limiting violence – culture and the constitution of public norms: with a case study from a stateless area
  • Peter Hägel, Standard-setting for capital movements: reasserting sovereignty over transnational actors?
  • Stéphane Guéneau, Certification as a new private global forest governance system: the regulatory potential of the forest stewardship council
  • Eva Kocher, Private standards in the north - effective norms for the south?
  • Egle Svilpaite, International corporate social responsibility standards: imposing or imitating business responsibility in Lithuania?
  • Ulrike Wanitzek, Legal pluralism under the influence of globalisation: a case study of child adoption in Tanzania
  • Anne Peters, Till Förster, & Lucy Koechlin, Towards non-state actors as effective, legitimate, and accountable standard-setters