Lecture 1 Flashcards
What is the society centric view
State hollowed out as power move up to international bodies (Marks et al 1996), (Rhodes 1996)
What Is the state centric view
State still key site of political accountability and public legitimacy (gamble 2000) pierre and peters 2000
What are the 3 cores of governance
Empirical, theoretical (analytical) normative (bache and Flinders 2004)
What is governance not
Government
What is as important as the policy
What led to the policy outcome
In the society centric view what is meant by moving up
Moving to international bodies
In the society centric view what is meant by moving up
Moving to international bodies
In the society centric view what is meant by moving down
Moving down to regions
In the society centric view what is meant by moving out
Moving to non state
What does empirical governance mean
Describes changes with respect to a policy area
What is theoretical governance
Tries to think what are the underlying processes, seeks to establish norms and best practices
What is governance in the real world
Radical change in state/form role contemporary sciences
who is involved in real world governance
public private and voluntary organisations, to provide services
what is the scale of in real world governance
global
What is the political ideology of thatcher and Ronald Reagan
neo liberalism
who inspired thoughts of neo liberalism
Milton Friedman
What was the idea of Friedman
states had become bloated, not state integration
What did neoliberalism trigger in south America
revolution, larger changes in state and society
what sector becomes more important in neoliberalism
Voluntary sector
What is governance of theory
account of society change, for some people governance does not need to go any further
what theoretical things can governance be attributed to
free market, environmentalism, eco Marxism, deep ecology
what is the view of deep ecology
all human activity is conditioned by other species
what does kohler Koch think governance should have
a particular goal or end point
what do is thought of governance as an end point
governance as efficient, effective, equitable systems for collecting and allocating funds
what did biermann say global governance was
architecture
what can governance as an end point be seen as
normative
who theorised the tragedy of the commons
Hardin 1968
what is the conflict, in tragedy of the commons
resource use between individual interest and common good
how is management of environmental resources no self contained
multi-dimensional (economy, society, environment)
cross-border (pollutants, climate, common pool recourses)
Multi-level (global, regional, national, local)
How is environmental governance temporal
spans generations, multiple actors at the same time
What governance is at public and international level
global institutions, European union
What governance is at private, international, national and sub-national level
corporate environmental policy
What governance is at national and public level
UK Government
What governance is at Sub-national and public level
Local government
what governance is at the public and individual level
citizen (or interest groups)
What governance is at the private and individual level
consumer
what commission greatly advanced the discussion of environmental policty
Brundtland Commision
why is the Brundtland commission described as idealised
unlikely to happen, goals if a country has a strong economy, hard to roll out
what can the progress from rio be described as
slower and grubbier
what environmental instruments came out of rio 1992
ecolabels, taxes and voluntary agreements
what is environment governance derived from
many actors/institutions
what does environmental governance arise from
interplay between public and private
how should we understand environmental governance
as a political process
what does environmental governance comprise
rule bundles, policy procedures, belief systems and networks
What is true about varying environmental policy sectors
each with their own characteristics
what is new institutionalism
institution very broadly defined, formal and informal beliefs
What are policy networks
relations bringing actors together to broker differences
what is a policy community
membership is constant and often hierarchical, external pressures have minimal effect and actors are highly dependent on each other.
