The Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration

Bibliographic Data

ID24159010
EditorsDiane Stone (0000-0003-3783-3789), Kim Moloney (0000-0002-2024-3339)
Year2019
Publication date2019-01-17
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Oxford Handbook of Global Policy and Transnational Administration (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198758648.001.0001
ISBN9780198758648
LanguageEN
Citations received35

Global policy making is unfurling in distinctive ways above traditional nation-state policy processes. New practices of transnational administration are emerging inside international organizations but also alongside the trans-governmental networks of regulators and inside global public—private partnerships. Mainstream policy and public administration studies have tended to analyse the capacity of public sector hierarchies to globalize national policies. By contrast, this Handbook investigates new public spaces of transnational policy making, the design and delivery of global public goods and services, and the interdependent roles of transnational administrators who move between business bodies, government agencies, international organizations, and professional associations. This Handbook is novel in taking the concepts and theories of public administration and policy studies to get inside the black box of global governance. Transnational administration is a multi-actor and multi-scalar endeavour having manifestations at the local, urban, sub-regional, subnational, regional, national, supranational, supra-regional, transnational, international, and global scales. These scales of ‘local’ and ‘global’ are not neatly bounded and nested spaces but are articulated together in complex patterns of policy activity. These transnational patterns represent an opportunity and a challenge for the study of both public administration and policy studies. The contributors to this Handbook advance their analysis beyond the methodological nationalism of mainstream approaches to re-invigorate policy studies and public administration by considering policy processes that are transnational and the many new global spaces of administrative practice.

Administration (probate law) · Global governance · Interdependence · Mainstream · Political science · Politics · Public policy · Transnational governance · European Union Policy and Governance · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Public Administration