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International Social Science Journal 

Wiley-Blackwell
About: International Social Science Journal is an academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Population & Social change. It has an ISSN identifier of 0020-8701. Over the lifetime, 1256 publications have been published receiving 27021 citations. The journal is also known as: ISSJ.


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TL;DR: G. Stoker and D. King as mentioned in this paper have published two books: Rethinking Local Democracy and Privatisation of Urban Services in Europe, 1996 and 1997, respectively.
Abstract: Science in the Department of Government, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XQ, UK, email: G.stokerK strathclyde.ac.uk His main research interests are in local government, urban politics, and cross-national policy transfer. Between 1992 and 1997 he was Director of the ESRC Local Governance Research Programme. He has authored or edited over a dozen books. His two most recent publications are: Rethinking Local Democracy, 1996 (edited with D. King) and The Privatisation of Urban Services in Europe, 1997 (edited with D. Lorrain). Governance as theory: five propositions

2,868 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the growing interest in governance in relation to the changing roles of markets, states, and partnerships in economic coordination, and comment on the respective tendencies to failure of markets and states.
Abstract: This article explores the growing interest in �governance� in relation to the changing roles of markets, states, and partnerships in economic coordination. It also comments on the respective tendencies to failure of markets, states, and governance. The article first addresses the interest in governance and explains this in terms of recent theoretical developments as well as of fundamental shifts in economic, political, and social life. These latter changes suggests that issues of governance will remain a key issue for a long time and therefore merit careful consideration. The logic of �heterarchic governance� is then contrasted with the respective logics of anarchic, ex post coordination through market exchange and of imperative ex ante coordination through hierarchical forms of organization. Some preliminary reflections are offered on the nature, forms, and logic of �governance failure� with special reference to the constraints imposed by global capitalism, the insertion of governance arrangements into the wider political system, and specific dilemmas of governance arrangements themselves. These tendencies to failure are then related to the state�s increasing role in �meta-governance�, i.e., in managing the respective roles of these different modes of coordination. The article concludes with a call for a repertoire of modes of coordination.

944 citations

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TL;DR: Ksikkink and Sikkink as discussed by the authors described the Workers' Party and Democratisation in Brazil (1992) and PT: A Logica da Diferença (in Portuguese) (1991).
Abstract: of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, 338 Mergenthaler Hall, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA, email: mkeckKjhu.edu She is author of The Workers’ Party and Democratisation in Brazil (1992) and PT: A Logica da Diferenca (in Portuguese) (1991). Kathryn Sikkink is Professor of Political Science, University of Minnesota, 1414 Social Science, 267 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA, email: KsikkinkKpolisci.umn.edu She is author of Ideas and Institutions: Developmentalism in Brazil and Argentina (1991). Transnational advocacy networks in international and regional politics*

820 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the main themes relating to the development of new knowledge-based economies are discussed, including the new skills and abilities required for integration into the knowledge based economy, the new geography that is taking shape (where physical distance ceases to be such an influential constraint), the conditions governing access to both information and knowledge, not least for developing countries, uneven development of scientific, technological (including organizational) knowledge across different sectors of activity, problems concerning intellectual property rights and the privatization of knowledge; and the issues of trust, memory and the fragmentation of knowledge.
Abstract: This introductory article reviews the main themes relating to the development of new knowledge-based economies. After placing their emergence in historical perspective and proposing a theoretical framework which distinguishes knowledge from information, the authors characterize the specific nature of such economies. They go on to deal with some of the major issues concerning the new skills and abilities required for integration into the knowledge-based economy; the new geography that is taking shape (where physical distance ceases to be such an influential constraint); the conditions governing access to both information and knowledge, not least for developing countries; the uneven development of scientific, technological (including organizational) knowledge across different sectors of activity; problems concerning intellectual property rights and the privatization of knowledge; and the issues of trust, memory and the fragmentation of knowledge.

471 citations

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No. of papers from the Journal in previous years
YearPapers
202355
202278
202134
202016
201916
201820