Introduction: Global Administrative Law in the Institutional Practice of Global Administrative Governance

Introduction: Global Administrative Law in the Institutional Practice of Global Administrative Governance

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Long-term changes in the nature of global political and social order include the use of increasingly fine grained regulatory arrangements intended to overcome collective action problems and market failures and to take advantage of global cooperation. Although framing the changes in these politico-economic terms suggests that the key drivers are the maximization by each actor of achievement of its own (self-defined) interests within the constraints of the prevailing constellation of power, any global order model must also address values conflicts and cultural diversity, on the one hand, and the implications of dramatic but shifting inequalities of power, on the other. Two long-standing state-based models of global order blending these considerations provide the framework for standard approaches to international law: minimal interstate pluralism and more ambitious and moralistic interstate solidarism. Global regulatory governance (GRG) can be framed as a third model of global order, dependent on and layered over the existing models and grappling in distinctive ways with the considerations of power, value conflicts, and inequality. This introduction surveys some specific roles of law in the emerging GRG model, with particular attention to the present and future roles of global administrative law (GAL).

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International Financial Institutions and Global Legal Governance

Source Editors/Authors

Hassane Cissé, Daniel D. Bradlow, Benedict Kingsbury

Publication Date

2012

Introduction: Global Administrative Law in the Institutional Practice of Global Administrative Governance

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