Beyond Networks - Interlocutory Coalitions, the European and Global Legal Orders

This book explores the activism promoted by organised networks of civil society actors in opening up possibilities for more democratic supranational governance. It examines the positive and negative impact that such networks of civil society actors named interlocutory coalitions may have on the convergence of principles of administrative governance across the European legal system and other supranational legal systems.

The book takes two main controversial aspects into account: the first relates to the convergence between administrative rules pertaining to different supranational regulatory systems. Traditionally, the spread of methods of administrative governance has been depicted primarily against the background of the interactions between the domestic and the supranational arena, both from a top-down and bottom-up perspective. However, the exploration of interactions occurring at the supranational level between legal regimes is still not grounded on adequate empirical evidence. The second controversial aspect considered in this book consists of the role of civil society actors operating at the supranational level. In its discussion of the first aspect, the book focuses on the relations between the European administrative law and the administrative principles of law pertaining to other supranational regulatory regimes and regulators, including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, the United Nations, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Asian Development Bank, and the Council of Europe. The examination of the second aspect involves the exploration of the still little examined, but crucial, role of civil society organised networks in shaping global administrative law. These interlocutory coalitions include NGOs, think tanks, foundations, universities, and occasionally activists with no formal connections to civil society organisations. The book describes such interlocutory coalitions as drivers of harmonized principles of participatory democracy at the European and global levels. However, interlocutory coalitions show a number of tensions (e.g. the governability of coalitions, the competition among them) that may hamper the impact they have on the reconfiguration of individuals' rights, entitlements and responsibilities in the global arena.

Provides a comprehensive description of supranational coalitions of civil society actors Offers a useful reference guide for civil society activists, NGOs and citizens Provides a fresh perspective on the globalization of administrative acts Explores the controversial and little examined force of the activism promoted by civil society actors in the newly emerging global administrative law regime Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Gianluca Sgueo, PhD administrative law (University of Salento, Italy) and LLM in European Public Law (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens - European Public Law Academy, Greece) is Professor in Digital Democracy in Public Spaces at the École d'Affaires Publiques of Sciences Po, Senior Associate Researcher at the Centre for Digitalization, Democracy and Innovation of the Brussels School of Governance, and Associate Researcher at the Centro de Estudos Sociais of the University of Coimbra. He is also Coordinator of the Department on Digitalization at Fondazione Einaudi, and Policy Advisor at the Department of Digital Transformation of the Italian Government. His publications include 'Beyond Networks. Civil society coalitions, the European and global legal orders' (Springer, 2016); 'Games, Powers & Democracies' (Bocconi University Press, 2018); 'Il divario. I servizi pubblici digitali tra aspettative e realtà' (Egea, 2022).

Inhalt

1 A Framework for Interactions between National, European and Global Administrative Systems of Law.- 2 The Emergence of Civil Society Networks.- 3 The Interlocutory Coalitions: Composition, Governance and Supranational Stance.- 4 The Activities of Interlocutory Coalitions: Mediation, Rule-Making and Implementation.- 5 Cooperation between Supranational Regulators and Interlocutory Coalitions. Issues of Accountability and Legitimacy.- 6 Interlocutory Coalitions and Policy Convergence.- 7 Beyond Networks. The Interlocutory Coalitions and Globalization Of Democracy.- Synoptic Table.- Index.