Areas of limited statehood where the state is absent or dysfunctional are rarely ungoverned or ungovernable spaces. The provision of rules and regulations as well as of public goods and services - governance - does not necessarily depend on the existence of functioning state institutions. How can this be explained? This article makes two claims. First, we identify functional equivalents to state institutions that fail to govern hierarchically. Second, we focus on informal institutions based on social trust that are endogenous to areas of limited statehood. Personalized social trust among community members enables actors to overcome collective action problems, enhancing the legitimacy of governance actors. The main challenge in areas of limi...
Dieses Working Paper widmet sich dem Zusammenhang von Staatlichkeit und lokalen Selbstregelungen. Mi...
This paper explores the social interactions between public and private agents through a comparative ...
'Dieser Aufsatz untersucht die neue Architektur des 'globalen Governance', die durch nicht-rechensch...
Areas of limited statehood where the state is absent or dysfunctional are rarely ungoverned or ungov...
Räume begrenzter Staatlichkeit, in denen der Staat entweder abwesend oder dysfunktional ist, sind se...
Unlike what Hobbesian theories argue, the provision of governance is not necessarily undermined by a...
The absence of state authorities in areas of limited statehood does not equal anarchy, disorder, and...
The absence of state authorities in areas of limited statehood does not equal anarchy, disorder, and...
The governance problematique constitutes a central research focus in contemporary social sciences. ...
In this paper I argue that governance can be referred back to the basic sociological categories of s...
The vast majority of areas of limited statehood are subject to the authority of external actors, be ...
In this paper I argue that governance can be referred back to the basic sociological categories of s...
Governance ist zu einem zentralen Thema sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung geworden. Dabei besteht Ü...
"The paper analyses the new architecture of global governance which is characterised by unaccountabl...
This thematic issue addresses the relationship between local self-governance and the state. Self-gov...
Dieses Working Paper widmet sich dem Zusammenhang von Staatlichkeit und lokalen Selbstregelungen. Mi...
This paper explores the social interactions between public and private agents through a comparative ...
'Dieser Aufsatz untersucht die neue Architektur des 'globalen Governance', die durch nicht-rechensch...
Areas of limited statehood where the state is absent or dysfunctional are rarely ungoverned or ungov...
Räume begrenzter Staatlichkeit, in denen der Staat entweder abwesend oder dysfunktional ist, sind se...
Unlike what Hobbesian theories argue, the provision of governance is not necessarily undermined by a...
The absence of state authorities in areas of limited statehood does not equal anarchy, disorder, and...
The absence of state authorities in areas of limited statehood does not equal anarchy, disorder, and...
The governance problematique constitutes a central research focus in contemporary social sciences. ...
In this paper I argue that governance can be referred back to the basic sociological categories of s...
The vast majority of areas of limited statehood are subject to the authority of external actors, be ...
In this paper I argue that governance can be referred back to the basic sociological categories of s...
Governance ist zu einem zentralen Thema sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung geworden. Dabei besteht Ü...
"The paper analyses the new architecture of global governance which is characterised by unaccountabl...
This thematic issue addresses the relationship between local self-governance and the state. Self-gov...
Dieses Working Paper widmet sich dem Zusammenhang von Staatlichkeit und lokalen Selbstregelungen. Mi...
This paper explores the social interactions between public and private agents through a comparative ...
'Dieser Aufsatz untersucht die neue Architektur des 'globalen Governance', die durch nicht-rechensch...