Similar Search Results

European governmentality or decentralised network governance? The case of the European Employment Strategy

Möller, Kolja - RECON - 2010

academic literature it is stylized as a focal point for decentralised modes of governance. But drawing on Michel Foucault …’s governmentality approach the OMC does not seem to represent an innovative governance tool but a governmental system of power. The OMC …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611202

Constitutionalism and pluralism in a global context

Walker, Neil - RECON - 2010

Constitutional pluralism divides opinion. What makes it attractive to some in a globally connected world also accounts for the scepticism of others. Its allure lies in its ambition to square two ideas – ‘constitutionalism’ and ‘pluralism’ - typically understood as incompatible....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611205

Democratic Boundaries in the US and Europe. Inequality, Localisation and Voluntarism in Social Welfare Provsion

Altman, Tess; Mayes, David G. - RECON - 2011

Our aim in this paper is to explore three related trends which have emerged in recent years that are contributing to important changes in the way both social welfare and democratic decision making over its form and content interact. These trends are: growing inequality, an increasing devolution...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009145187

Performance Management of Double Bottom Line Institutions: Evidence from Banco Compartamos’s Productivity Distribution

Hudon, Marek; Périlleux, Anaïs - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2011

We use an innovative methodology to analyze social responsibility in double bottom line institutions such as microfinance institutions. We provide empirical evidence on the distribution of the generated surplus between the key stakeholders of one of the most famous MFIs worldwide: Banco...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371096

What Explains Microfinance Distribution Surplus? A Stakeholder-oriented Approach

Hudon, Marek; Périlleux, Anaïs - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2010

What are the drivers of productivity surplus distribution to microfinance stakeholders? This paper shows that the size of the institution is the main indicator that can explain the gain in productivity surplus but also the surplus given to clients (decrease of interest rates) and staff....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642459

Constitutionalism beyond the state: myth or necessity?

Cohen, Jean L. - RECON - 2010

Constitutionalism beyond the state is a deeply contested project. The emergence of global governance and global laws … production of international or global law. Thus questions about the legitimacy of global law and governance arise particularly …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008645015

The quality of democracy in the Czech Republic

Mansfeldová, Zdenka; Guasti, Petra Rakušanová - RECON - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680865

Social Welfare and Democracy in Europe: What Role for the Private and Voluntary Sectors?

Altman, Tess; Shore, Cris - RECON - 2010

This paper explores the role of the private and voluntary sectors in helping to fill gaps in public sector social welfare provision and considers the extent to which this augments or weakens the democratic process. While the public sector has tended to be the major provider in European social...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008684788

Data Mining and ‘Renegade’ Aircrafts: The States as Agents of a Global Militant Security Governance Network — The German Example

Nickel, Rainer - RECON - 2010

Security governance has changed the way societies organise and control the execution of powers. This contribution will … in a wider context; they are embedded in a growing structure of security governance, which has evolved into a Global … Militant Security Governance. This formally non-hierarchical network structure poses a threat to the rule of law …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694985

Vietnam’s political economy: a discussion on the 1986-2016 period

Vuong, Quan Hoang - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2014

Being a member of the thriving ASEAN and successfully implementing economic renovation (Doi Moi) have drawn the world's attention on Vietnam around the turn of the millennium. Some even expected a much faster pace of transformation, and renewed economic, AND political, reforms in Vietnam, or Doi...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775218