This advanced seminar is offered spring 2011. It is open to advanced undergraduates and graduate students. (Interested faculty are invited to participate as well.) Students from PUBP, INTA, HTS are especially encouraged.
Globalization and global governance have attracted considerable attention in recent decades. These phenomena, however, have deep and familiar roots in the development of functional sectors like transportation (including railroads, surface roads, and air transport,) communications (telegraph, telephone, broadcast, and Internet,) resource management (watersheds, global climate,), and economic development (local, regional, and national.) We use the terms “system” to refer to these socio-economic-technical sectors.
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This class looks at the governance of such systems. It begins with a review of functionalism, i.e. that proper system function imposes demands on society. In particular, we focus on the functional demand for governance. Governance is the “steering” of a system, and it often requires a capacity of collective action among societal actors. Functional demands for governance give rise to institutions, which are enduring rules for the making of collective decisions of governance.
We categorize functional demands for governance into five types:
· Technical standards (definition of the system)
· Coordination (e.g. allocation of water rights, radio spectrum, air routes)
· Regulation (e.g. definition of property rights, anti-trust)
· Public policy (values-based governance of equity, freedom, decency, etc.)
· International relations (national security, diplomacy)
These types of governance are differentiated by their rules for the making of collective decisions. Collective decisions about technical standards, for example, should be made by different processes than collective decisions about public policy. Therefore, the functional demands for such decisions give rise to different governance institutions.
Key works to be read in the class include:
· Ostrom, Governing the Commons· Aldy and Stavins, eds., Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World· Krasner, ed., International Regimes· Denardis, Protocol Politics· Scmidt and Werle, Coordinating Technology· Drake and Wilson, Governing Global Electronic Networks· Donnelly, Universal Human Rights in Theory & Practice· Histories of telegraph, telephony, broadcast, and Internet.
· Hughes, Networks of Power
The class will include case study readings. Although priority will be given to communication systems (esp. the Internet,) students will select a system of their choice for readings. Thus students with greater interest in environment, science policy, economic development, etc. will be able to tailor the class to those interests.
The class will meet once weekly for three hours. The time will be determined depending on the schedule of participants.
First meeting is THURSDAY JANUARY 13 at 11am in Profess Klein’s office (DM Smith 313). Students who are unsure of their interest are encouraged to attend the first meeting.
This class is intended for advanced students in the social sciences.
Inquiries are welcome and should be directed to: Hans Klein
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