scholarly journals The Contours of State Retreat from Collaborative Environmental Governance under Austerity

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2761 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Kirsop-Taylor ◽  
Duncan Russel ◽  
Michael Winter
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Biosphere Reserve ◽  
Collaborative Governance ◽  
The State ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
State Legitimacy ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
State Governance

Although the effects of public austerity have been the subject of a significant literature in recent years, the changing role of the state as a partner in collaborative environmental governance under austerity has received less attention. By employing theories of collaborative governance and state retreat, this paper used a qualitative research design comprised of thirty-two semi-structured interviews within the case study UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in the United Kingdom to address this lacuna. Participants perceived that the austerity period has precipitated negative changes to their extant state-orientated funding regime, which had compelled changes to their organisational structure. Austerity damaged their relationships with the state and perceptions of state legitimacy whilst simultaneously strengthening and straining the relationships between intra-partnership non-state governance actors. This case offers a critical contemporary reflection on normative collaborative environmental governance theory under austerity programmes. These open up questions about the role of the state in wider sustainability transitions.

Part VI Actors, Ch.35 The State

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marauhn Thilo
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
The State ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
International Legal System ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Freedom Of Action

This chapter assesses the role of the state in international environmental law. The starting point is the Westphalian notion of states' unimpaired freedom of action, increasingly revealed as a ‘myth’. The chapter then considers ideas of contemporary statehood—an element of a global system of environmental governance. Contemporary statehood and its relevance for international environmental law can best be illuminated by focusing on the roles assumed by states as authors, addressees, and guardians of international law. Finally, the chapter discusses the changing role of states in light of ongoing transformations in the international legal system, including the growing plurality of actors, norms, and institutions, as well as the growth of inter-linked networks of states and other actors.

Political Stakeholder Theory: The State, Legitimacy, and the Ethics of Microfinance in Emerging Economies

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tricia D. Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Stakeholder Theory ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
State Policies ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
State Legitimacy ◽  
Role Of The State

ABSTRACT:How does the state influence stakeholder legitimacy? And how does this process affect an industry’s ethical challenges? Stakeholder theory adopts a forward-looking perspective and seeks to understand how managers can address stakeholders’ claims to improve the firm’s ability to create value. Yet, existing work does not adequately address the role of the state in defining the stakeholder universe nor the implications this may have for subsequent ethical challenges managers face. This article develops a political stakeholder theory (political ST) by weaving together the political economy, stakeholder theory, and legitimacy literatures. Political ST shows how state policies influence stakeholder legitimacy and, in turn, affect an industry’s ethical challenges. This article integrates the concept of agonism to address the perennial tension between markets and states and its implications for firms and their managers. Political ST is then applied to the case of microfinance, followed by a discussion of the contributions of this approach.

“Blue” Morality and the Legitimacy of the State—Ed Rubin's Soul, Self, and Society: The New Morality and the Modern State

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (02) ◽  
pp. 582-609 ◽  
Author(s):  
June Carbone
Keyword(s):  
Belief System ◽  
The State ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Moral Code ◽  
State Legitimacy ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Self Worth ◽  
Urban Gangs ◽  
Individual Self

Ed Rubin's provocative new book, Soul, Self, and Society: The New Morality & the Modern State (2015), attempts to capture the relationship between morality and the state. It maintains that that there are three comprehensive moral systems: the morality of honor that characterized feudal relationships and survives today in failed states and urban gangs, the morality of higher purposes that linked individual self-worth and state legitimacy to a shared belief system, and the morality of self-fulfillment that entrusts development of a moral code to each individual and sees the role of the state as creating the conditions for individual flourishing. This review essay argues that Rubin's work is critically important in explaining that the idea of self-fulfillment combines public tolerance with private discipline, and rests on obligation as well as freedom. It suggests, however, that if the new morality were to truly take hold, it would weaken the links between citizen and state that make the system possible.

scholarly journals Constituent aspects of riverside isomorphic governance on the Ilha do Careiro (Amazonas, Brazil)

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. e59250
Author(s):  
Marília Gabriela Gondim Rezende ◽  
Antonio Carlos Witkoski ◽  
Therezinha de Jesus Pinto Fraxe ◽  
Francimara Souza da Costa ◽  
Cristiane Menezes Guedes de Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
The State ◽  
Venn Diagrams ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Interdisciplinary Knowledge ◽  
The Face ◽  
Prior State ◽  
Plant Extractivism

Understanding governance in rural communities in the state of Amazonas requires interdisciplinary knowledge, as understanding the network of political articulation involves a collection of knowledge. Despite the existence of numerous works related to this subject, an a prior state is presumed in the representation of the network of political articulation, which leads to an exacerbated role of the State, in the face of other forms of social organization. Hence, the objective of the article was to analyze the environmental governance in the São Francisco community, located on the Ilha do Careiro da Várzea, in the state of Amazonas. We built Venn diagrams of agriculture, fishing, and plant extractivism to achieve this. The evidence provided indicates that the existing governance in the studied community is an isomorphic governance, which is the materialization of organized molecular power, originating from the triumvirate correspondence between the activities developed on lands, in forests, and on waters.

Overturning Italy’s Article 18: Exogenous and endogenous pressures, and role of the state

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 439-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tod Rutherford ◽  
Lorenzo Frangi
Keyword(s):  
Policy Decision ◽  
The State ◽  
Employment Protection ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Unfair Dismissal ◽  
Policy Decision Making ◽  
Jobs Act

Since 1970 Article 18 provided important employment protection for workers in larger firms in Italy. Its core aspect (i.e. reinstatement in the case of unfair dismissal) was recently overturned by the Jobs Act for employees hired after its approval. To explain Article 18’s abolition, the authors assess the explicative power of (1) stronger exogenous pressures from economic international institutions, and (2) weaker endogenous pressures from unions and business organizations. Documentary analyses and semi-structured interviews with key informants reveal that while these two forces are critical, they tend to ‘read off’ the state policy decision making role, which, the authors argue, is central to explaining the overturning of Article 18.

Changing Role of The State

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thilo Marauhn
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
International Environmental Agreements ◽  
The State ◽  
International Governance ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
System P ◽  
Environmental Relations ◽  
Changing Role

Since the early days of modern public international law, the state has been the most important subject thereof. However, today, it is neither the sole, nor necessarily the primary, actor in international (environmental) relations. In recent years, the role of the state and, notably, the ability of the state to address environmental risks and threats, have increasingly come to be scrutinised. While states' standard setting remains important, commentators have argued that the ability and willingness of states to implement and enforce such standards have major weaknesses. Nevertheless, the state remains a truly important actor in international relations. It forms part of international governance, which has become multilevel governance. This article discusses the changing role of the state in international environmental governance. It examines states as authors, addressees, and guardians of international environmental law. The article also considers the over-estimation of Westphalian concepts of sovereignty, international environmental agreements, international environmental obligations, statehood as an element of a global system of environmental governance, and the role of the state in the transformation of the international legal system.

Economic and Legal Support for Commercialization of Intellectual Property in Russia

2003 ◽  
pp. 66-76
Author(s):  
I. Dezhina ◽  
I. Leonov
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
The State ◽  
Commercial Application ◽  
The West ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Legal Context

The article is devoted to the analysis of the changes in economic and legal context for commercial application of intellectual property created under federal budgetary financing. Special attention is given to the role of the state and to comparison of key elements of mechanisms for commercial application of intellectual property that are currently under implementation in Russia and in the West. A number of practical suggestions are presented aimed at improving government stimuli to commercialization of intellectual property created at budgetary expense.

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