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This 2005 book argues that Europeanization and globalization have led to ever-more intensive legalization at transnational level. What accounts for compliance beyond the nation-state? The authors tackle this question by comparing compliance with regulations that have been formulated in a very similar way at different levels of governance. They test compliance with rules at the national level, at the regional level (EU), and at a global level (WTO), finding that in fact the EU has higher levels of compliance than both international and national rules. The authors argue that this is because the EU has a higher level of legalization, combined with effective monitoring mechanisms and sanctions. In this respect it seems that the European Union has indeed achieved a high level of legalization and compliance, though the authors add that this achievement does not settle the related queries with the legitimacy of transnational governance and law.

International and municipal law --- Federal government --- Europe --- Economic integration --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- International and municipal law - European Union countries --- International and municipal law - Germany --- Federal government - Germany --- Europe - Economic integration --- European Union countries --- Economic integration. --- Theory of the state

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Der Begriff Governance ist ein Erfolgsbegriff und zwar nicht nur in der Politikwissenschaft, sondern auch in anderen Disziplinen, selbst in der eher begriffskonservativen Rechtswissenschaft. Der Preis dieses Erfolges ist die Uneindeutigkeit des Governancebegriffs, was die Governance-Forschung dazu zwingt, sich über die Begriffsverwendung von Governance zu verständigen und die Verwendungskontexte des Governancebegriffs analytisch sorgfältig auszudifferenzieren. Zu beidem will dieses PVS-Sonderheft einen weiterführenden Beitrag leisten. In den Beiträgen der Herausgeber und im ersten Teil des Bandes geht es um erste Konturen einer Theorie von Governance und die Präzisierung des Governancebegriffs. Der Abgrenzung und Schärfung des Governancebegriffs dienen ferner die Beiträge, die sich mit dem Verhältnis zum historisch so dominanten Organisationsprinzip der Hierarchie auseinandersetzen. Mit dem Teil „Governance und Recht“ wird gezielt ein multidisziplinärer Dialog über das Governance-Konzept eröffnet, und zwar in der Hoffnung, daraus gerade für ein Verständnis von Governance als Koordination von Akteurshandeln in Regelungsstrukturen zu lernen. Die den Governanceebenen gewidmeten Teile – von „National“ zu „Transnational“ Governance – beschäftigen sich mit unterschiedlichen Governance-Kontexten und unterschiedlichen Governance-Modi wie etwa Netzwerken und Public Private Partnerships. Sinn des Bandes ist also weniger eine Bestandsaufnahme der Governance-Forschung, sondern eine Verortung von Governancestrukturen und Governanceprozessen vor dem Hintergrund sich wandelnder Staatlichkeit.

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Regime theory has become an increasingly influential approach to the analysis of international relations, particularly in the areas of international political economy and international environmental politics. The conceptual appeal of the idea of "governance without government"--in which a combination of different organizations and institutions supply governance to address specific problems--reflects a world in which the demand for governance is great but the familiar mechanisms for supplying it are weak. Most research on international regimes employs qualitative methods, often using case studies to develop larger theoretical arguments; but a lack of standardization makes comparative analysis difficult. Analyzing International Environmental Regimes introduces the International Regimes Database (IRD), an important methodological innovation that allows scholars to adopt a quantitative approach to the study of international regimes.The IRD is a relational database that makes it possible to compare records on specific aspects of a number of international environmental regimes that are coded using a single, well-defined set of concepts, definitions, and scales. The book first describes the database and discusses a number of methodological, technical, and architectural issues. It then illustrates the use of the IRD as an analytic tool, drawing on the database for descriptive statistics to evaluate theoretical ideas about compliance, decision rules, and the role of knowledge. A CD containing the full IRD data protocol and all the data currently in the database accompanies the book.

Environmental sciences --- Environmental management --- Information services. --- International cooperation. --- International regimes database. --- Environmental science --- IRD --- Science --- Databases. --- ENVIRONMENT/Environmental Politics & Policy