Governance without Government
Book description
A world government capable of controlling nation-states has never evolved. Nonetheless, considerable governance underlies the current order among states, facilitates absorption of the rapid changes at work in the world, and that direction to the challenges posed by interstate conflicts, environmental pollution, currency crises, and the many other problems to…
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Governance is a social function centered on steering societies toward collectively desirable outcomes.
By contrast, a government is an organization (or collection of organizations) authorized to deal with issues of governance in a particular society.
While governments are responsible for addressing needs for governance in many settings, this distinction allows us to explore situations featuring efforts to respond to needs for governance in the absence of a government.
This is a critical observation at the global level where there are many needs for governance but no world government.
It has freed the community to analyze a range of governance systems…
From Oran's list on global environmental governance.
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