Screen LibraryRethinking private authority : agents and entrepreneurs in global environmental governance /
"Rethinking Private Authority examines the role of non-state actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing private authority. Jessica Green identifies two distinct forms of private authority--one in which states...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Rethinking Private Authority examines the role of non-state actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing private authority. Jessica Green identifies two distinct forms of private authority--one in which states delegate authority to private actors, and another in which entrepreneurial actors generate their own rules, persuading others to adopt them.Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence spanning a century of environmental rule making, Green shows how the delegation of authority to private actors has played a small but consistent role in multilateral environmental agreements over the past fifty years ... |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-205) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780691157580 (hardback : acid-free paper) 0691157588 (hardback : acid-free paper) 9780691157597 (paperback : acid-free paper) : 0691157596 (paperback : acid-free paper) |
| Index Number: | GE170 |
| CLC: | X-01 |
| Call Number: | X-01/G796-1 |