Transnational Actors in Global Governance

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Transnational Actor Participation in International Institutions: Where, Why, and with What Consequences?

   • Jonas Tallberg, Christer Jönsson

   Pages 1-21

3. Capturing the Transnational: A Conceptual History

   • Christer Jönsson

   Pages 22-44

4. Transnational Access to International Institutions: Three Approaches

   • Jonas Tallberg

   Pages 45-66

5. Explaining Patterns of Transnational Participation: The Role of Policy Fields

   • Jens Steffek

   Pages 67-87

6. Explaining Varying Degrees of Openness in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

   • Andrea Liese

   Pages 88-109

7. WTO and the Environmental Movement: On the Path to Participatory Governance?

   • Åsa Casula Vifell

   Pages 110-133

8. Limits to Transnational Participation: The Global Governance of Migration

   • Sara Kalm

   Pages 134-154

9. Private Authority on the Rise: A Century of Delegation in Multilateral Environmental Agreements

   • Jessica F. Green

   Pages 155-176

10. Does Global Democracy Matter? Hypotheses on Famine and War

    • Hans Agné

    Pages 177-196

11. Democracy Counts: Problems of Equality in Transnational Democracy

    • Sofia Näsström

    Pages 197-217

12. Beyond Democratic Legitimacy: Global Governance and the Promotion of Liberty

    • Jens Bartelson

    Pages 218-236

13. Transnational Access: Findings and Future Research

    • Christer Jönsson, Jonas Tallberg

    Pages 237-251

14. Back Matter

    Pages 253-260

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The nature of global governance is changing, as are the standards by which we judge its legitimacy. We are witnessing a gradual and partial shift from inter-state co-operation to more complex forms of governance, involving participation by transnational actors, such as NGOs, party associations, philanthropic foundations and corporations.

• democracy
• environment
• global governance
• Governance
• Institution
• International institutions
• migration
• Nation
• nature
• organization
• participation
• policy
• Transnational
• United Nations
• WTO

• Lund University, Sweden

  Christer Jönsson

• Stockholm University, Sweden

  Jonas Tallberg

HANS AGNÉ is Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden, and Associate Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs JENS BARTELSON is Professor of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden ÅSA CASULA VIFELL is a researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History at Södertörn University, Sweden and at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University, Sweden JESSICA F. GREEN is a Doctoral Candidate at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, USA SARA KALM is Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden ANDREA LIESE is Professor of International Organizations and Public Policy at the University of Potsdam, Germany SOFIA NÄSSTRÖM is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University, Sweden JENS STEFFEK is Professor of Transnational Governance at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany and Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence 'The Formation of Normative Orders,' hosted by the University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany

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