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Framing Transnational Governance

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In this chapter, I situate transnational governance and diffusion processes against mainstream explanations. I challenge what I consider a pervasive Western perspectivism in conventional theoretical models and point to the limitations of technical and transcendental explanations for unravelling domestic trajectories of private regulation and accounting for context-specific developments and outcomes. Subsequently, drawing from social movement ideas, I propose an interpretative framework where the transnational diffusion of private governance is conceived as a contingent process of framing, sense-making, and (eventual) collective mobilization, significantly affected by the degree of semantic alignment between ‘global’ regulatory norms and frames with relevant dimensions of national political culture, including historical institutional and non-institutional legacies, models of state-society relations, and political discourses.

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Peña, A.M. (2016). Framing Transnational Governance. In: Transnational Governance and South American Politics. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53863-5_2

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