Actors and Agency in Global Social Governance (Hardcover)

Actors and Agency in Global Social Governance seeks to advance our understanding of the global dimension of social policy by applying the notion of global social governance on actors, their relations to each other, and their pathways as well as their footprints of influence in the specific policy fields of social concern in which they are active. Focusing on a broad array of individual and corporate global social policy actors, ranging from internationally operating intergovernmental organizations to state formations and NGOs, the contributions to this volume draw a fuller picture of agency in global social policy than what current accounts provide. It considers the multiple facets of individual scope and legitimacy for a particular actor in conjunction with the configuration of global social governance as characterised by multi-centred and multi-scaled obstacles as well as diverse forms of collaboration. The volume studies the contextualised actor's range and power in designing, shaping, and facilitating various global social policies. Thus, the contributions discuss the role of particular (corporate) actors within global social policy structures and assess the impact of a number of key organizations, states, groups, and individuals in the governance of global social policy. At the same time, a variety of social policy fields in which these actors are involved are addressed, including labour market issues, family policy, health policy, education policy, migration issues, and global (re)distribution via various forms of development aid or remittances.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2015
Editors:	Alexandra Kaasch (Junior Professor) • Kerstin Martens (Associate Professor)
Dimensions:	240 x 173 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	278
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-874399-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Law > International law > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General
LSN:	0-19-874399-8
Barcode:	9780198743996

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