scholarly journals Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 269-272
Author(s):  
Julie E. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
Incremental Improvement ◽  
Governance Institutions ◽  
Informational Economy ◽  
New Strategies

This book has explored the gradual and contested emergence of legal institutions adapted to the informational economy. It has considered changes in patterns of entitlement and disentitlement and in the structure and operation of regulatory and governance institutions. The conclusion offers a brief reflection on the ways that transformations in political economy shape the horizons of possibility for Polanyian protective countermovements and on the durability of such countermovements. It observes that countermovements are temporary, inevitably inviting new strategies for evasion, capture, co-optation, and arbitrage, but that they also create the possibility for real, incremental improvement—and occasionally even for transformative improvement.

scholarly journals Between Truth and Power

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie E. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Institutional Transformation ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
Regulatory Processes ◽  
Governance Institutions ◽  
Informational Economy

This book explores the relationships between legal institutions and political and economic transformation. It argues that as law is enlisted to help produce the profound economic and sociotechnical shifts that have accompanied the emergence of the informational economy, it is changing in fundamental ways. We are witnessing the emergence of legal institutions adapted to the information age, but their form and their substance remain undetermined and are the subjects of intense struggle. One level for legal-institutional transformation involves baseline understandings of entitlement and disentitlement. Both lawyers and laypeople tend to think of legal entitlements as relatively fixed, but the ongoing transformation in political economy has set things in motion in ways that traditional accounts do not contemplate. In particular, the datafication of important resources and the shift to a platform-based, massively intermediated communications environment have profoundly reshaped both the organization of economic activity and the patterns of information exchange. The authority of platforms is both practical and normative, and it has become both something taken for granted and a powerful force reshaping the law in its own image. Another level for legal-institutional transformation involves the structure and operation of regulatory and governance institutions. Patterns of institutional change in the networked information era express a generally neoliberalized and managerialist stance toward the law’s projects and processes. They reflect deeply embedded beliefs about the best uses of new technological capabilities to manage legal and regulatory processes and account for activities of legal and regulatory concern.

scholarly journals Towards a Dynamic Theory of Civil Society: The Politics of Forward and Backward Infiltration

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Klein ◽  
Cheol-Sung Lee
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Dynamic Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Comparative Political Economy ◽  
Influence Functional ◽  
Functional Replacement ◽  
New Strategies ◽  
New Framework ◽  
Exclusive Focus

This article develops a conceptual framework to theorize the processes of mutual penetration between civil society, the state, and the economy, where incumbents and challengers continuously formulate new strategies against each other. We criticize the prevailing Weberian and Tocquevillian concepts of civil society, and then, drawing on research in social movements and comparative political economy, propose a new framework: the politics of forward and backward infiltration. Under each form of infiltration, we delineate three submodes: the politics of influence, the politics of substitution, and the politics of occupation, which correspond to strategies for discursive influence, functional replacement, and institutional takeover, respectively. We challenge the exclusive focus on the politics of influence as inadequate for analyzing these processes, while highlighting the other two modes as necessary additions. Finally, we elucidate the implications of our theory of forward and backward infiltration for the study of civil society and participatory democracy more generally.

Continuing the Conversation … Some Reflections

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. 747-751
Author(s):  
Juanita Elias
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Security ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Security Studies ◽  
Security Governance ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Governance Institutions ◽  
The Relationship

The diverse collection of short reflections included in this Critical Perspectives section looks to continue a conversation—a conversation that played out in the pages of this journal (Elias 2015) regarding the relationship between two strands of feminist international relations scholarship: feminist security studies (FSS) and feminist international political economy (IPE). In this forum, the contributors return to some of the same ground, but in doing so, they bring in new concerns and agendas. New empirical sites of thinking through the nexus between security and political economy from a feminist perspective are explored: war, women's lives in postconflict societies, and international security governance institutions and practices.

Elinor Ostrom and the robust political economy of common-pool resources

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK PENNINGTON
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Incentive Compatibility ◽  
Common Pool Resources ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Common Pool ◽  
Robust Political Economy ◽  
Governance Institutions ◽  
Governance Arrangements

Abstract:This paper situates Elinor Ostrom's work on common-pool resource management in the tradition of ‘robust political economy’. Ostrom's analysis of bottom-up governance institutions is shown to recognise that such arrangements though imperfect are better placed to cope with bounded rationality and incentive compatibility problems in the management of smaller- and medium-scale common-pool resources. While Ostrom's work provides an analytical framework to explain the success of these arrangements, however, the paper argues that it lacks a robust account of when, if ever, top-down governance arrangements are to be preferred.

scholarly journals Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie E. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Behavior Patterns ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
Ideological Transformation ◽  
And Behavior

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the interlinked themes of political economy, governmentality, and institutional configuration that the book will explore. It begins with a brief exploration of the roles that networked information technologies and law play in relation to economic and political power: through their capacities to authorize, channel, and modulate information flows and behavior patterns, code and law mediate between truth and power. It then briefly sketches the ongoing and interrelated transformations in political economy and political ideology (or governmentality) that are now underway. Finally, it returns to law, situating legal institutions within processes of economic and ideological transformation.

scholarly journals Pemanfaatan Data Warehouse pada Institusi Pemerintahan

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 396
Author(s):  
Rudy Rudy
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Data Warehouse ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Core Data ◽  
The Core ◽  
Time Region ◽  
Governance Institutions ◽  
Using Data ◽  
New Strategies ◽  
Model Approach

Data warehouse has a very important role in assisting of decision making, where the data warehouse became the core. Data in the data warehouse provide valuable information for its users. By using data warehouse, governance institutions can conduct data analyzes in order to build new strategies to make benefits for all stakeholders. This paper discusses about the design of data warehouse in Balai Besar Riset Sosial Ekonomi dan Kelautan. Data warehouse design using dimensional model approach introduced by Kimball. The information required by management at Balai Besar Riset Sosial Ekonimi dan Kelautan are divided into three groups: income, consumption and commerce. With the data warehouse organizations can easily perform analyses and generate reports, which can be viewed from various scopes, including time, region, fishermen and fisheries.

The Political Economy of Water Markets

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dustin Garrick ◽  
Jesper Svensson
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Institutional Design ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
Water Markets ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Us ◽  
Community Roles ◽  
Governance Institutions ◽  
And Performance

This chapter examines the political economy of water markets. It traces key debates about water markets, and examines how and why these debates have evolved since the 1970s. Experiments with water markets over the past 40 years have generated lessons about the politics, institutional design and performance of reforms to water rights and river basin governance institutions. Drawing on contrasting experiences with water markets in Australia, the US and China, the analysis demonstrates that strong government and community roles are necessary for water markets to respond effectively and equitably to water scarcity.

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