...This introductory chapter provides an overview of voting ethics. Voting is the principal way that citizens influence the quality of government. As such, individual voters have moral obligations concerning how they vote. Indeed, how individuals vote can help or harm people. Electoral outcomes can...

...This chapter analyzes what is the optimal governance model for market infrastructure institutions using the broad goal of efficiency as the main yardstick to compare different models. Three fundamental elements of governance are examined: an organization's ownership structure, its profit mandate...

...This chapter examines a second kind of pathway, one concerning ideas and practices of religion and politics. In India, British rule both validated religious governance of family affairs and drove Islamic leaders to carve out their own spaces for teaching, learning, and the administration of Islamic...

...This chapter explores the variation in organizational norms, governance arrangements, and social networks that produce systematic differences in aggregate behavior. Left-wing longshore union members give up time and money to fight on behalf of social justice causes from which they can expect...

... and governance. It has also distinguished two different types of private authority: delegated authority and entrepreneurial authority. This concluding chapter summarizes the book's findings and considers their theoretical implications—namely, appropriate ways to evaluate the effects of private authority in world...

...This introductory chapter analyzes the central political problem of our time, namely how to adapt democracy to the acceleration of the information age. Modern technology creates a supply of new tools for improved governance, but it also creates an urgent demand for putting these tools to use. We...

...: rules that make government data more available in the most transparent and useful form. Such rules advance empiricism by offering more material for testing and assessment. Information-eliciting rules also help create a better political culture. decentralization of policy empiricism Friedland Steven I...

..., how to define nationhood, and how to grasp the possibility and limits of global governance. These are pivotal but often neglected dimensions of Tocqueville’s work, and this fresh look at his writings provides a powerful framework for addressing the tensions between liberalism and democracy...

... and gathering evidence; suing and prosecuting governments, companies, and individuals; and even catching lawbreakers red-handed. Examining this trend, this book considers why some transnational groups have opted to become enforcers of international law regarding such issues as human rights, the environment...

... state capacity A complex outcome, most critically underpinned by institutions governing social mobility (i.e., meritocracy in promoting), equality of opportunity (i.e., meritocracy in recruiting), and redistribution (i.e., education). See Evans and Rauch (1999) . governance-related terms...

... their vulnerabilities. It also considers four broad scenarios that raise issues such as international institutions fitting with domestic governance. geoeconomics geopolitics Putin Vladimir communications technology cyber attacks interference economic sanctions energy Middle East oil industry and geopolitics...

... on public–private partnerships would become the capstone to a trend that was decades in the making, providing grants directly to nonprofits and developing policy ideas hand in hand with private foundations. Ultimately, it is impossible to understand urban governance today without understanding how it has...

...This chapter examines how individuals and organizations defined “the Fairmount Corridor.” It highlights three themes. First, private nonprofit leaders played important roles in urban governance by determining how geographical boundaries were drawn. Second, transit policy—and transit-oriented...

... the 1930s, especially after OMB (then known as the Bureau of the Budget) moved into the Executive Office of the President from the Treasury Department in 1939. It matches well with the kind of “governance structure” an information-seeking president might rationally construct in order to evaluate and winnow...

... is the so-called “regimes of visibility”: discourses and practices that govern the politics of visualization. The chapter examines the tactical operations on which the young right-wing extremists draw to manage their own political visibility and to confront dominant visibility regimes, and the ways...

... of transnational actors, who are playing increasingly consequential roles in global governance. Scholars have long contended that transnational actors are both normative and strategic, but only more recently have they begun to study how their politics and preferences influence their behavior. Uncovering what...

...This concluding chapter assesses the arguments of this study. The fundamental contention of this book is that consolidated democracies cannot exist without military elites committed to democratic governance, that their support is a necessary if insufficient condition of democratization. It also...

...This chapter presents a typology of global regulation, which differentiates the institutional setting for rule-making, which is either public or private, from the global selection process, which is either market based or nonmarket based. Four types of global regulatory governance are discussed...

... governance, focusing on actors and sources of power, before discussing institutional complementarity, effective representation of domestic interests at the international level, and timeliness of involvement and information. It shows that domestic standardization systems characterized by institutional...

... in France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, the chapter asks whether institutional fragmentation of accounting governance in Europe impedes the effective aggregation of European interests and their projection onto the international stage, while the close institutional fit between...