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Explaining Patterns of Transnational Participation: The Role of Policy Fields

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Within the range of concrete proposals for democratizing international governance, enhanced civil society participation has attracted a remarkable amount of scholarly interest.1 The literature that deals with this democratizing potential has grown exponentially over the last ten years (for recent overviews, see Greenwood, 2007; Kohler-Koch and Finke, 2007; Omelicheva, 2009; Scholte, 2004). Much of it is concerned with governance in the European Union (EU), but also global organizations such as the United Nations (UN), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are studied extensively. Some scholars have sought to put the numerous pieces of the puzzle together and to provide an overview of participatory trends in a more comparative fashion (Steffek et al., 2008). The set of volumes in which this text appears is certainly the most ambitious attempt so far to take stock of these developments.

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Steffek, J. (2010). Explaining Patterns of Transnational Participation: The Role of Policy Fields. In: Jönsson, C., Tallberg, J. (eds) Transnational Actors in Global Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230283220_4

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