Common Goods

As European countries become more interdependent, the provision of common goods increasingly must be organized across national boundaries, levels of government, and sectors. In addition, former adversaries in the public and private sectors must learn to collaborate rather than compete. These changing paradigms call for new institutional and instrumental arrangements that move beyond existing modes of national governance. Offering a unique focus on the emerging role of private actors, this volume explores the evolving challenge of governing common goods in an increasingly transnational environment.

As European countries become more interdependent, the provision of common goods increasingly must be organized across national boundaries, levels of government, and sectors. In addition, former adversaries in the public and private sectors must learn to collaborate rather than compete. These changing paradigms call for new institutional and instrumental arrangements that move beyond existing modes of national governance. Offering a unique focus on the emerging role of private actors, this volume explores the evolving challenge of governing common goods in an increasingly transnational environment. The first systematic analysis of institutional solutions for providing common goods, this book shows how hierarchies established over centuries of nation-state rule have become obsolete, while negotiation and self-regulation have grown in importance. The contributors explore innovative solutions to the collective action problems countries encounter when clear lines of traditional authority dissolve.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2
Chapter I: Common Goods
Chapter 3 Common Goods and Governance
Chapter 4 Context and Collective Action: Common Goods Provision in Multiple Arenas
Chapter 5 The Provision of Transnational Common Goods: Regulatory Competition for Environmental Standards
Chapter 6 PARTII: Common Goods and the Role of Private Actors: International Level
Chapter 7 Private Actors and the State: Internationalization and Changing Patterns of Governance
Chapter 8 Negotiating Privacy across Arenas - The EU-US Safe Harbor Discussions
Chapter 9 The Privatization of Global Governance and the Modern Law Merchant
Chapter 10 Non-State Actors and the Compliance with International Institutions for the Provision of Common Goods: Concepts, Theories, Hypotheses
Chapter 11 PARTIII: Common Goods and the Role of Private Actors: European Level
Chapter 12 New Modes of Governance in Europe. Policy-making without legislation?
Chapter 13 The Case of Public Mission against Competition Rules and Trade Rules
Chapter 14
Chapter IV: Common Goods and the Role of Private Actors: National Level
Chapter 15 The New Regulatory Regime. The Institutional Design of Telecommunications Regulation at the National Level
Chapter 16 Contracts and Resource Allocation: Markets and Law as the Basis of Policy Instruments
Chapter 17 A Constitutional Framework for Private Governance
Chapter 18
Chapter V: Privatising Governance in the Financial Markets
Chapter 19 Private Makers of Global Public Policy: Bond Rating Agencies and the New Global Finance
Chapter 20 Standardising as Governance: The Case of Credit Rating Agencies
Chapter 21 Rating Agencies and Systemic Risk. Paradoxes of Governance
Chapter 22 Governing across Boundaries - Aspects of Governing the Knowledge Society