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Local governance networks as public authority: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar and Pakistan Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 Anuradha Joshi, Colin Anderson, Katrina Barnes, Egidio Chaimite, Miguel Loureiro, Alex Shankland
Drawing upon ‘governance diaries,’ a method which used repeated interviews with a set of households and intermediaries in three countries—Mozambique, Myanmar and Pakistan—to understand how marginalised groups meet their daily governance needs, we argue that local governance networks constitute a form of public authority. The networks we examine encompass a range of local actors (state and non‐state)
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‘No safe haven’: Why the GATT ‘regional exception’ does not apply to technical barriers to trade Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Silvia Nuzzo
During the last two decades, Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) have increased in quantity and broadened in scope. Far from merely reducing tariffs, they now set out a detailed discipline also on behind‐the‐border measures. Due to their trade‐restrictive potential, technical barriers to trade (TBTs) are now systematically regulated in PTAs. Since PTAs discriminate by definition, it is pivotal to
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Reserving the right to say no? Equilibria around hard trade‐sustainability commitments in power‐asymmetric contexts Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Rodrigo Fagundes Cezar, Oto Murer Küll Montagner
When will stringent sustainability commitments (not) be a stumbling block in the negotiation of trade agreements? Although the existing literature has explored the determinants of the design of sustainability provisions in trade agreements, few works have explored when countries will accept/reject those provisions once their content cannot be changed. Based on insights from game theory, we flesh out
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Negotiating faith in exile: Learning from displacements from and into Arua, North West Uganda Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Elizabeth Storer
Humanitarians have recently championed faith actors as valuable resources in delivering humanitarian aid. Partnerships are increasingly promoted through international declarations and bespoke toolkits. Such approaches are abstracted from the historical and contemporary contexts through which faith is negotiated, and through which faith actors have become legitimate. This paper explores how faith has
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Russia–Ukraine war and India's quest for leading power status Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Raj Verma
India's neutrality and failure to publicly criticise Russia is driven by the Modi government's quest to be a great/leading power. It believes that Moscow can aid New Delhi in achieving this goal by enhancing the security pillar of its foreign policy strategy. However, publicly criticising Russia will undermine India's security pillar and will prevent India from becoming a leading power. Thus, India's
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Private sector participation in infrastructure in emerging market and developing economies: Evolution, constraints, and policies Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Joseph Mawejje
The private sector can play important roles in closing the infrastructure investment gaps in emerging market and developing economies. However, private participation in emerging market and developing economies' infrastructure has declined over the past decade, reflecting persistent structural challenges and risks in the business environment. The decline was broad‐based and gained momentum following
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Digital nomadism and the challenge to social citizenship Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Adam K. Webb
As a subset of remote work, digital nomadism crosses jurisdictions and generates fears that it unfairly escapes regulation and taxation. Alongside other circuits of an emerging world society, it fails to fit neatly into the longstanding template of relatively self‐contained nation‐states. Most efforts to address this new phenomenon merely aim to tweak tax treaties and other rules, so as better to slot
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The benefits of neutrality: Saudi foreign policy in the wake of the Ukraine war Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Jens Heibach
This article assesses Saudi Arabia's ambivalent response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. On the one hand, the Kingdom has publicly condemned Russia's military aggression as contravening international law. Yet, on the other, it has also failed to take serious measures against Moscow, notably by refusing to join in Western attempts to prevent Russia from earning hydrocarbon revenues
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The war in Ukraine, the Global South and the evolving global order Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Malte Brosig, Raj Verma
This special section explores how nine key countries from the Global South have responded to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. As the Western attempt to build a global anti‐Russia coalition has largely failed, the focus on countries from the Global South becomes more important but remains under‐researched in the discipline. This introductory article offers the conceptual framework for the following empirical
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Digital innovation and de‐branching in the banking industry: Customer perception and satisfaction Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Santiago Carbó‐Valverde, Pedro J. Cuadros‐Solas, Francisco Rodríguez‐Fernández, José Juan Sánchez‐Béjar
In the ever‐changing landscape of the banking industry, digital transformation has become a major challenge. Banks are transitioning towards digitalisation by utilising information and digital technologies while reducing their branch networks. This paper investigates the relationship between technological innovation and banking customers' perception and satisfaction. By analysing a comprehensive consumer
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Risk analysis of Spanish companies Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Juan Antonio Rodríguez‐Sanz, Eleuterio Vallelado, Miguel Fernández‐Martín
This paper aims to investigate the determinants of different types of market risk faced by Spanish firms from 2012 to 2019. Using Fama and French's (Journal of Financial Economics, 1993, 33, 3) three‐factor model, we estimate total risk, diversifiable risk, and systematic or non‐diversifiable risk in the three dimensions proposed by these authors: market risk, size risk, and valuation risk. Risk determinants
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Mapping research on corporate misconduct in banking: Lessons from literature on preventive and punitive actions Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Rita Rodríguez‐Arrojo, Manuel Luna, Camilo J. Vázquez‐Ordás, Myriam García‐Olalla
Advanced societies are increasingly concerned about corporate misconduct. Citizens are more willing to penalize it, and regulators are punishing companies more significantly than ever before. In particular, while reputation is a key asset for any business, corporate conduct has proven to be especially relevant in the banking industry. The present paper explores the main research efforts carried out
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Climate‐related credit risk: Rethinking the credit risk framework Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Helena Redondo, Elisa Aracil
Climate change and the challenges associated with the transition to a zero‐carbon economy pose significant financial risks. Climate‐related risks (CRR) indirectly impact banks through their loan portfolios. To examine the integration of CRR into banks' credit risk assessment and monitoring, this article reviews academic and institutional literature using quantitative bibliometric techniques and content
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Introduction to the special issue: “Current challenges of corporate governance: Reputation, risk and sustainability” Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Myriam García‐Olalla, Camilo José Vázquez‐Ordás
In the modern business landscape, the challenges of corporate governance have become increasingly important. In particular, those related to reputation, risk, and sustainability are today crucial to the well‐being of both individual organizations and the global economy and society at large. For these reasons, corporate governance today plays a more important role than ever before in shaping the strategies
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Work environment and health of bank employees working from home: Lessons from the COVID‐19 pandemic Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Carla Azpíroz‐Dorronsoro, Beatriz Fernández‐Muñiz, José Manuel Montes‐Peón, Camilo José Vázquez‐Ordás
Teleworking in the banking sector has increased considerably as a result of the outbreak of the COVID‐19 pandemic. This work examines the role that home work environment and organisational support for teleworking played in the health of bank employees who were forced to work from their homes during the health emergency. For this, the authors propose and test a structural equation model and a moderated
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How the method for delivering loans impacts on the economic efficiency of microfinance institutions Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 José L. Fernández Sánchez, María D. Odriozola, Elisa Baraibar‐Diez
The aim of this research has been to analyse how the method employed for lending can affect the cost efficiency of microfinance institutions (MFIs) since innovations for lending have been introduced in the sector in the last years and there are not empirical studies to analyse the actual impact of it. The improvement of MFIs' cost efficiency is very important for these institutions to achieve their
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Epistemic competition in global governance: The case of pharmaceutical patents Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Cynthia Couette
Expert consensus helps policymakers solve complex problems by identifying and legitimizing policy solutions. Yet, persistent hesitation remains among policymakers regarding the technically adequate policy solution despite the existence and mobilization of epistemic communities. This paper contends that more attention should be given to studying the epistemic competition that may arise when multiple
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Making the UNFCCC fit for purpose: A research agenda on vested interests and green spiralling Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Naghmeh Nasiritousi, Alexandra Buylova, Mathias Fridahl, Gunilla Reischl
How can the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) be made more effective? This paper argues that in order to make the UNFCCC fit for purpose, there is a need to identify the specific institutional reforms that can create ripple effects to accelerate climate action across governance levels and relevant organisations. Longstanding calls to reform the UNFCCC have targeted inefficient procedures
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Indicator accountability or policy shrinking? Multistakeholder partnerships in reviews of the sustainable development goals Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Magdalena Bexell
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with their 169 targets and 231 indicators epitomise the trend of global governance by numbers. This article suggests the notion of a global “indicator reporting trajectory” that is shaped by three main elements: the politics of indicators, a reporting infrastructure and indicator advocacy. I propose that indicator reporting trajectories may result either in
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Unique data, different values: Explaining variation in the use of biometrics by international humanitarian organizations Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Çağlar Açıkyıldız
Humanitarian organizations are increasingly using biometric technology. Although the existing literature comprehensively covers this issue, it overlooks the considerable divergence in approaches and policies. In fact, there are significant differences in how biometric data are collected, stored, processed, shared, and protected. Drawing on an analysis of relevant news items, documents, and 17 semi-structured
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Fit for purpose? Just Energy Transition Partnerships and accountability in international climate governance Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Joseph Earsom
This contribution examines whether just energy transition partnerships (JETPs), a new type of financial agreement between G7/G7-allies and low-to-middle income states, can serve as accountability mechanisms for the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It identifies important structural elements from the existing literature on climate governance for holding actors to account
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Accountability in densely institutionalized governance spaces Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Stephanie C. Hofmann
The concept of organizational accountability is central to good governance both domestically and internationally. However, assessing accountability in densely institutionalized global governance spaces requires new conceptual and analytical tools. Rather than concentrating on the accountability of states, intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and transnational
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Aligned or non-aligned: South Africa's response to the war in Ukraine Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Malte Brosig
This contribution explores South Africa's position in the war in Ukraine. As a major African player, member of BRICS, the G20, and frequent UN Security Council member, the country is a globally engaged and regionally leading actor. Since the beginning of the conflict, South Africa has declared itself as non-aligned; however, its close political relations with Russia and disinclination to condemn the
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The art of the Trump-Iran deal: An unsuccessful coercive foreign policy Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Amir Magdy Kamel
The success of a state's coercive foreign policy depends on how much influence it has over a ‘target’ – a premise that assumes other factors do not obstruct the policy goal. In practice however, the nature of the international system complicates the potential for such a policy's success. This paper examines this idea using the 2018 US decision that aimed to dismantle the JCPOA by pulling out of the
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Contested ‘commune rurales’: Decentralisation and the (violent) struggle for public authority in the Democratic Republic of Congo Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Karen Büscher, Stephanie Perazzone, Jeroen Cuvelier, Stephane Lumbu, Espoir Rwakira, Paul Bulambo, Chrispin Mvano Yabauma, Godefroid Muzalia
This article explores how decentralisation policy and specifically the establishment of communes rurales in DR Congo turned into a profoundly destabilising juncture, shaking existing governance arrangements. In particular, we examine how this has led to a reshuffle of power and a renegotiation of public authoritiy. By analysing the impact of decentralisation on the construction of and competition over
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Here to stay? Challenges to liberal environmentalism in regional climate governance Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 David Krogmann
While regionalism is highly relevant in many policy fields today, regional idiosyncrasies have been poorly understood in the literature on multilateral climate governance. This article explores regional ideas in climate governance by comparing the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS). As international climate governance has institutionalised a normative compromise
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Supply chain divergence challenges a ‘Brussels effect’ from Europe's human rights and environmental due diligence laws Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Mairon G. Bastos Lima, Almut Schilling-Vacaflor
Human rights violations and pressing environmental issues have tainted agricultural trade. The role of international market demand for commodities such as soy in causing those problems is clear, yet they remain mostly unaddressed. Therefore, European countries have led a new global trend on mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD), advancing the EU's growing global regulatory
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Informality and the governance dilemma: How institutional inter-linkages can bridge accountability gaps Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Charles B. Roger
States have increasingly relied on informal international organizations (IOs) to govern cross-border problems. Frequently, however, their accountability has been questioned because they have been created to evade political control and strengthen the hands of executives and bureaucrats vis-à-vis legislative actors. This has led some to propose solutions that might address their accountability gaps.
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Unveiling child trafficking: Local perspectives and context in addressing sustainable development goals in Sierra Leone Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Alex Balch, Anna M. Cody, David Okech, Tamora Callands, Umaru Fofanah, Haja Ramatulai Wurie
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) included the goal of combating child labor and human trafficking, but regional variations complicate efforts to address these problems. In Sierra Leone, the government has taken steps to address these issues, but challenges remain, particularly in relation to access to education, in rural areas, and for young girls. This article examines local stakeholder understandings
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The New Development Bank in Africa: Mid-term evaluation and lessons learned Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Daniel D. Bradlow, Magalie L. Masamba
The New Development Bank (NDB) launched its first project in Africa on April 13, 2016, and on August 17, 2017, the Bank opened its Africa Regional Centre (ARC) in Johannesburg, South Africa. This article assesses the NDB's presence in Africa. It addresses the following questions: what role is the NDB playing in Africa? What is the ARC and why was its created? How well have the NDB and the ARC been
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Sustainable future bonds: Boosting multilateral development banks lending and improving the global reserve system Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Marina Zucker-Marques, Kevin P. Gallagher
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) are crucial players to finance a greener, more socially inclusive and sustainable future, given their unique financial model that provides low-cost and long-term investments in areas aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Climate commitments. To fulfill their potential, MDBs need a stepwise increase in financing, which has been a challenge
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The sound, the fury and the silences: The politics of influence in digitalizing India Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Jean-Thomas Martelli, Aasim Khan, Ralph Schroeder
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT There is no conflict of interest to declare.
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The pursuit of positive accountability in the cyber domain Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Patryk Pawlak
Debates about accountability in cyberspace are dominated by state-centric and security-driven approaches that disregard the complexity of the institutional ecosystem in cyberspace and the diverse ways through which different stakeholder groups may pursue accountability. Such an approach has contributed to a flawed interpretation of accountability in cyberspace as applicable solely to malicious actors
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Ad hoc coalitions: From hierarchical to network accountability in peace operations? Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Stephanie C. Hofmann, John Karlsrud, Yf Reykers
Launching multinational peace operations are time and politically sensitive decisions that frequently involve the use of force. As a result, a host of accountability issues arise. To date, mainly backward-looking and hierarchical accountability measures have been developed to guide the implementation of multinational peace operations led by the most prominent actors in this policy domain: intergovernmental
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In the line of duty: Militarising African epidemics Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Tim Allen, Melissa Parker
The deployment of soldiers for epidemic control in Africa has become more acceptable, even when human rights violations occur. This article outlines how this situation has arisen, foregrounding overlapping processes since the 1990s and the implications of Security Council Resolution 2177. It then explores effects with reference to Sierra Leone and Uganda. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, it discusses
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Dealing with Europe's economic (in-)security Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Federico Steinberg, Guntram Wolff
Economic security is going to occupy an increasingly important role in global politics. While the EU should aim to avoid a fragmentation of the global economy and support multilateralism, it needs to prepare for protectionism, a global subsidy race and weaponisation of interdependencies. First, the EU must take geopolitical risks seriously and use stress tests and a data-driven approach to identify
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Ecosystem services and sustainable peace in Afghanistan: Gaps in national policy and its security implications Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Srinjoy Bose, Maxim Mancino, Dahlia Simangan
While previous studies underscore the importance of climate-sensitive approaches to peacebuilding, the relationship between ecosystem services and peace and security, especially at the local level, has been insufficiently studied. We argue that ecosystem services are often neglected by national-level actors and insufficiently integrated into peacebuilding interventions and project design. In fact,
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Courts, climate litigation and the evolution of earth system law Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Louis J. Kotzé, Benoit Mayer, Harro van Asselt, Joana Setzer, Frank Biermann, Nicolas Celis, Sam Adelman, Bridget Lewis, Amanda Kennedy, Helen Arling, Birgit Peters
Numerous scientific reports have evidenced the transformation of the earth system due to human activities. These changes – captured under the term ‘Anthropocene’ – require a new perspective on global law and policy. The concept of ‘earth system law’ situates law in an earth system context and offers a new perspective to interrogate the role of law in governing planetary challenges such as climate change
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Advancing governance indicator systems: Lessons learned from the 2022 symposium Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Helmut K. Anheier, Regina A. List, Edward L. Knudsen
The Berggruen Governance Index (BGI) is a new and innovative entry into the crowded domain of quantitative governance research. In its effort to contribute to the field, the BGI builds off of and acts in dialogue with several other governance indicator projects from across the globe. As part of a collaborative outlook, the BGI convened the first of three symposia at the UCLA Luskin School in October
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Making universal education a priority for sustainable development: The EU, Vietnam and education Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Catherine Gegout
This article highlights the need to bring education to the forefront of EU policies to promote sustainable development in Vietnam. The EU is increasingly concerned with promoting sustainable development worldwide. It does this in its aid policies, and since 2010, it has included in its trade agreements provisions on labour, environmental and gender rights. But what about education rights? This article
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The future(s) of global governance: A scenarios exercise Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Angel Saz-Carranza, Enrique Rueda-Sabater, Marie Vandendriessche, Carlota Moreno, Jacint Jordana
Pervasive uncertainty has stretched the fabric of global governance to its limit. The shape and form of future global governance is far from clear – yet we need to explore how it may play out, so that we can not only prepare for it but also overcome possible pernicious trajectories. Scenario thinking can be used to rigorously explore different possible outcomes. In this article, we present an exercise
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Introducing the Berggruen Governance Index I: Conceptual and methodological framework Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Helmut K. Anheier, Markus Lang, Edward L. Knudsen
Governance is at the heart of how well governments meet public needs and manage a wide array of common problems. Why do some countries perform poorly in delivering healthcare, reducing inequality, providing a clean environment or delivering some other public good to their populations even while they have the resources to do so? Does the capacity of states to provide the basics for societies to thrive
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Introducing the Berggruen Governance Index III. Implications for theory and policy Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Helmut K. Anheier, Olga Kononykhina
This article looks at some of the major implications for theory and policy that follow from the Berggruen Governance Index (BGI). After discussing the BGI's quality as an indicator in more general terms, the article explores two types of implications. The first are conceptual implications that relate to an improved understanding of governance, democracy and economic development. They illustrate the
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A falling star? Origins of declining state capacity and democratic accountability in the United States Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Edward L. Knudsen
The United States—often hailed as the ‘oldest democracy in the world’ and the ‘leader of the free world’—has fallen on hard times. In addition to recent headline-grabbing political events that have highlighted its political dysfunction, data from the 2022 Berggruen Governance Index (BGI) reveal that overall state capacity and democratic accountability have been declining for years. Although public
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Debunking the autocratic fallacy? Improving public goods delivery in Russia Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Christian Fröhlich
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has not only deeply challenged Russia's international standing but has also endangered its fragile domestic order. Data from the 2022 Berggruen Governance Index reveals that overall state capacity has been stagnating at a fairly low level since the beginning of the millennium, while democratic accountability has been declining steadily and profoundly. In contrast, the provision
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Unfinished revolutions: The post-Soviet crisis of governance in Ukraine Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Christian Fröhlich
None of the three revolutions in Ukraine's modern history as an independent state has been able to both solve the problem of political representation and undertake the task of building sustainable democratic institutions. Ukraine's scores from the Berggruen Governance Index (BGI) between 2000 and 2019 show the ups and downs of state capacity and democratic accountability and illustrate not only how
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Stable or stagnant? Political economy and governance in the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Germany since 2000 Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Edward L. Knudsen
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the large democracies of Western Europe experienced some of the most prosperous and peaceful decades in human history. Specifically, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Germany experienced high and stable quality of life, democratic accountability and state capacity between 2000 and 2019, according to the 2022 Berggruen Governance Index. While all four
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Escape from the ‘lost decades?’ Governance challenges in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Edward L. Knudsen
Much of Latin America has experienced a renewed ‘lost decade’, failing to substantially expand quality of life since the late 2000s. While the outcomes of governance performance across the largest countries – including Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina – have discrete causes, common themes like internal conflict, corruption, and overreliance on natural resources plague the entire region
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Sub-Saharan Africa: Towards better governance and sustainability? Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Helmut K. Anheier, Christian Fröhlich, Regina A. List
The countries of the Sub-Saharan region have, on average, made significant progress in governance performance, especially in terms of democratic accountability and public goods provision—findings that seem to contradict patterns of state fragility and economic underdevelopment common in the region. This article explores this seeming contradiction and presents in more detail findings from the Berggruen
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Advancing governance indicators: Four ways forward Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Helmut K. Anheier
This article goes beyond the presentation, assessment and discussion of the Berggruen Governance Index by suggesting potential next steps for governance indicators and relevant data systems more generally. Specifically, it addresses four ways to advance research on governance performance. The first two, greater cross-validation and cross-fertilisation and a systematic assessment of the legal-regulatory
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Localising aid: Urban displacement, contested public authority and legitimacy in Jordan and Lebanon Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-10-28 Dolf J. H. te Lintelo, Tim Liptrot
Globally, tens of millions of forcibly displaced people live in informal urban neighbourhoods. Although critical sites for humanitarian and development intervention, municipal authorities may have only a limited presence. Especially in conflict and post-conflict settings, other non-state actors emerge to compete for public authority. While the localisation agenda of international donors seeks to better
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Qatar's foreign aid and political strategies in the Horn of Africa: The case of Somalia Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Altea Pericoli, Federico Donelli
The purpose of this article is to analyse the relationship between Qatar's foreign policy and foreign aid in the Horn of Africa (HoA), with a particular focus on Somalia. Since the 2017 blockade, the HoA has become increasingly important to Qatar's foreign policy and aid efforts, intensifying political and economic competition with other Gulf players. This research describes Qatar's foreign policy
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Technology as a paradigm to investigate war Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Xi Lin
Critiquing Paul Kelly's unsophisticated grouping of political thinkers into two broad camps of a pre-state and (post-)state era, this article attempts to use the paradigm of technology as an alternative narrative to examine the phenomena of war, conflict and revolution. Drawing on Heidegger and Stiegler, the technology in war is regarded as a way of not only revealing our being in the world, but unconcealing
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To go with or against the grain? Politics as practice in the Budget Strengthening Initiative, Uganda Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Rose Pinnington
Responding to the failures of the good governance agenda in the post-Cold War period, development scholars and policy researchers have placed increasing emphasis on approaches that can enable practitioners to support local change processes in politically savvy ways. Sometimes referred to as the ‘second orthodoxy’ in donor practice, these models aim to take the politics of aid-receiving contexts seriously
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Does earmarked funding affect the performance of international organisations? Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Bernhard Reinsberg, Christian Siauwijaya
What determines the performance of international organisations (IOs)? We argue that funding structures remain an overlooked driver of IO performance. Over the past decades, donor governments have provided an increasing share of their contributions to IOs in the form of earmarked resources, which provide them with the opportunity to restrict the use of funding to specific themes, sectors, regions, countries
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Remembering the scholarship of Nathan Sears: A forum in memoriam Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Emma Lecavalier, Gregory Stiles
The team at Global Policy: Next Generation were heartbroken to hear of the tragic and untimely passing of Dr. Nathan Alexander Sears earlier this year. GPNG is an initiative focused on amplifying the scholarship of early career researchers—exceptional thinkers at the beginning of their professional academic careers. As editors and as colleagues, we were not prepared to be writing in memoriam about
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Two meetings Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Scott Janzwood
I had the pleasure of encountering Nathan Sears on two separate occasions—in the first week of his PhD and on the final day of his life. The first time we met, Nathan's ideas about why Great Powers fail to effectively address existential risks were just starting to take shape. The second time we met, Nathan, now a newly minted PhD, presented his fully formed theory of macrosecuritisation failure at
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Existential security: Safeguarding humanity or globalising power? Global Policy (IF 2.375) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Tom Hobson, Olaf Corry
Nathan Sears' (2020) exploration of how a policy of ‘existential security’ might be fostered represents one of the first efforts to systematically think through security and how it might relate to thinking about existential risks. The concept of existential risk emerged in the early twenty-first century (see, e.g. Bostrom, 2002). It refers to the idea that there are a class of hazards which may ‘threaten