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1 online resource. |
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data file |
| Series |
Configurations: critical studies of world politics
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Configurations (Ann Arbor, Mich.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Experts dominate all facets of global governance, from accounting practices and antitrust regulations to human rights law and environmental conservation. In this study, Ole Jacob Sending encourages a critical interrogation of the role and power of experts by unveiling the politics of the ongoing competition for authority in global governance. Drawing on insights from sociology, political science, and institutional theory, Sending challenges theories centered on particular actors' authority, whether it is the authority of so-called epistemic communities, the moral authority of advocacy groups, or the rational-legal authority of international organizations. Using in-depth and historically oriented case studies of population and peacebuilding, he demonstrates that authority is not given nor located in any set of particular actors. Rather, continuous competition for recognition as an authority to determine what is to be governed, by whom, and for what purpose shapes global governance in fundamental ways. Advancing a field-based approach, Sending highlights the political stakes disguised by the technical language of professionals and thus opens a broader public debate over the key issues of our time.-- Provided by Publisher. |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Patrick Thaddeus Jackson; Acknowledgments; Part I; Introduction: Authority in Global Governance; Chapter 1. Competing for Authority: Recognition and Field Dynamics in Global Governance; Part II; Chapter 2. Diplomats, Lawyers, and the Emergence of International Rule; Chapter 3. Ethnographic Sagacity and International Rule; Part III; Chapter 4. Genesis of the Field of Transnational Population Governance; Chapter 5. Safeguarding Positions, Transforming the Field: The Field Population of 1974-1994; Conclusion: Fields and the Study of Global Governance; Notes; Bibliography. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Globalization.
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International cooperation.
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Authority.
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World politics.
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globalism. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General. |
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Authority |
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Globalization |
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International cooperation |
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World politics |
| Other Form: |
Print version: The politics of expertise Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015] 9780472119639 (DLC) 2015022308 |
| ISBN |
9780472121250 ebook |
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0472121251 |
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9780472119639 hardcover : alk. paper |
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047211963X |
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9780472036912 |
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0472036912 |
| Standard No. |
10.3998/mpub.4016693 |
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