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Global Private Politics: A Research Agenda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Tim Büthe
Tim Büthe*
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Duke University
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Abstract

In this concluding essay to the special issue on Private Regulation in the Global Economy, I review the main findings, focused on the answers that the papers in this issue jointly suggest to the three sets of core questions noted in the introductory essay: (1) How do private bodies attain regulatory authority? Why do private regulators provide governance and why do the targets of these rules comply? (2) Who governs? Who are the key actors in private regulation and what are their motivations? (3) What is the effect of the rise of private regulation on public regulatory authority and capacity? I then identify and discuss several key issues to develop a research agenda for what I call “global private politics.”

Keywords

regulationglobal private politicsprivate governancenon-state actorsIPE
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Research Article
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Business and Politics , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , October 2010 , pp. 1 - 24
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Copyright © V.K. Aggarwal 2010 and published under exclusive license to Cambridge University Press 

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