A Theory of Global Governance: Authority, Legitimacy, and Contestation

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A Theory of Global Governance: Authority, Legitimacy, and Contestation
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Preface
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Introduction: Global Governance in Hard Times
	Global Governance
	The Global Governance System
	Legitimation Problems
	Behavioral Implications
	Decline or Deepening
	Theoretical Building Blocks and Causal Mechanisms
	The Road Ahead
Part I: The Global Governance System
	1. Normative Principles
		1.1 Global Common Goods
		1.2 Individual Rights and Entitlements of Non-state Actors
			1.2.1 Individuals and Societies as Addressees of Justification
			1.2.2 Individual Rights as an Element of Conditional Sovereignty
		1.3 The Possibility of International Authority
	2. Reflexive Authorities
		2.1 Public Authority as a Core Concept of the Political
		2.2 Conceptions of Public Authority
			2.2.1 Contracted Authority
			2.2.2 Inscribed Authority
		2.3 Reflexive Authority
			2.3.1 Reflexivity and its Epistemic Foundations
			2.3.2 Requests
			2.3.3 Perpetuation and Legitimation
		2.4 Two Types of Authority in Global Governance
			2.4.1 Political Authority
			2.4.2 Epistemic Authority
		2.5 The Relationships between Authorities
			2.5.1 Loosely Coupled Spheres of Authority
			2.5.2 Weak Separation of Powers
		2.6 Conclusion
	3. Legitimation Problems
		3.1 The Authority–Legitimation Link
		3.2 Sources of Legitimacy: The Impartial Pursuit of a Shared
Social Purpose
		3.3 Legitimation Narratives
			3.3.1 Participatory Narrative
			3.3.2 Legal Narrative
			3.3.3 Fairness Narrative
			3.3.4 The Technocratic Narrative
			3.3.5 The Traditional Narrative
			3.3.6 Relative Gains Narrative
			3.3.7 Manipulative Narrative
		3.4 Legitimation Problem I: Technocratic Bias
		3.5 Legitimation Problem II: Biased Exercise of Authority
	4. The Theoretical Model
		4.1 Historical Institutionalism
		4.2 Reactive Sequences
		4.3 The Authority–Legitimation Link
			4.3.1 State Contestation
			4.3.2 Societal Contestation
			4.3.3 Four Causal Mechanisms
		4.3.4 And Six Propositions
Part II: The Contestation of Global Governance
	5. The Rise of the Global Governance System: A Historical-Institutionalist Account
		5.1 Empirical Patterns of International Authority
		5.2 The End of the Second World War as a Critical Juncture
			5.2.1 Embedded Liberalism
			5.2.2 Prohibition on the Use of Force
		5.3 The Self-Reinforcement of Post-Second World War Institutions
		5.4 Reactive Sequences and Transnational Norm Entrepreneurs
		5.5 The Fall of the Wall and the Rise of the Global Governance System
		5.6 Public Authority in the Global Governance System
			5.6.1 The Development of Political Authority
			5.6.2 The Development of Epistemic Authority
		5.7 Releasing Functional Differentiation
		5.8 Conclusion
	6. The Politicization of Authority beyond the Nation State
		6.1 What is Politicization?
		6.2 Why is there Politicization? What are its Effects?
		6.3 The Politicization of the European Union
			6.3.1 State of the Art
			6.3.2 Quantitative Assessment of EU Politicization
			6.3.3 Qualitative Interpretation
		6.4 The Politicization of Other International Institutions
			6.4.1 State of the Art
			6.4.2 Qualitative Exploration
		6.5 Effects of Politicization
			6.5.1 State of the Art
			6.5.2 A Quantitative Analysis
		6.6 Conclusion
	7. Counter-Institutionalization in the Global Governance System
		7.1 Rising and Established Powers in the Global Governance System
		7.2 The Faces of State Power
		7.3 Are We Witnessing System Change?
		7.4 Counter-Institutionalization by Rising Powers
		7.5 Counter-Institutionalization by Established Powers
		7.6 Conclusion
	8. The Deepening of Global Governance
		8.1 Improved Legitimacy via Societal Pressures
		8.2 Human Rights Provisions in International Organizations
		8.3 The Findings
		8.4 Scope Conditions
			8.4.1 Provisions without Violations
			8.4.2 Provisions via Internal Veto Players
			8.4.3 Provisions via External Pressure
		8.5 Conclusions
Part III: 
The Future of Global Governance
	9. Are there Realistic Models of Global Governance with Cosmopolitan Intent? An Empirical Assessment
		9.1 About a Difficult Relationship
		9.2 Four Models of Global Institutional Order with Cosmopolitan Intent
		9.3 Empirical Presumptions of the Four Models
		9.4 Contributory Trends: Who is Right in which Respect?
			9.4.1 Relevance of International Institutions
			9.4.2 Practices in Political Will Formation
			9.4.3 Individual Attitudes (Micro-level)
		9.5 Conclusion
	10. Conclusion
		10.1 The Global Governance System and its Legitimation Problems
		10.2 Politicization and Counter-Institutionalization
		10.3 Decline or Deepening?
		10.4 A Global Politics Paradigm on the Rise?
		10.5 Future Research
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