{"product_id":"a-theory-of-global-governance-michael-zurn-9780198819981","title":"A Theory of Global Governance: Authority, Legitimacy, and Contestation","description":"This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a normative and institutional structure dominated by hierarchies and power inequalities and therefore \u003cem\u003e inherently\u003c\/em\u003e creates contestation, resistance, and distributional struggles. Within an ambitious and systematic new conceptual framework, the theory makes four key contributions. Firstly, it reconstructs \u003cem\u003e global governance as a political system\u003c\/em\u003e which builds on normative principles and reflexive authorities. Second, it identifies the central \u003cem\u003e legitimation problems of the global governance system\u003c\/em\u003e with a constitutionalist setting in mind. Third, it explains the \u003cem\u003e rise of state and societal contestation\u003c\/em\u003e by identifying key endogenous dynamics and probing the causal mechanisms that produced them. Finally, it identifies the conditions under which struggles in the global governance system lead to \u003cem\u003e decline\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003e deepening\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRich with propositions, insights, and evidence, the book promises to be the most important and comprehensive theoretical argument about world politics of the 21st century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Zurn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198819986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198819981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Michael Zurn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43914246914303,"sku":"9780198819981","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_8260cb89-adf2-4a73-bd62-8d66c8e046c6.jpg?v=1680641193","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-theory-of-global-governance-michael-zurn-9780198819981","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}