- The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Limited Statehood
- Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood: Conceptual Clarifications and Major Contributions of the Handbook
- Theories of Development and Areas of Limited Statehood
- A Historical-Sociological Perspective on Statehood
- Anthropological Perspectives on the Limits of the State
- Critical Approaches
- Measuring Governance and Limited Statehood
- Histories of Governance
- A Global History of Governance
- Geographies of Limited Statehood
- External State Actors
- INGOs and Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships
- ‘Traditional’ Authorities
- Business
- Violent and Criminal Non-State Actors
- Coercion and Trusteeship
- Hierarchical and Non-Hierarchical Coordination
- Brokerage, Intermediation, Translation
- Social Trust
- Security
- Foreign Aid
- Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Democracy
- Health
- Food Security
- Education
- Environmental and Natural Resources
- Migration
- International Legal Order
- Normative Political Theory
- Policy
- Name Index
- Subject Index
Abstract and Keywords
The state was long seen as the only institution able to govern legitimately. The empirical limitations of statehood in many parts of the world, as well as the normative ambivalences inherent to statehood, however, have led to a renewed interest in the legitimacy of non-state governance. A prominent approach holds that non-state governance is legitimate if and to the extent that it contributes to normatively desirable outcomes, such as an increase in security. This chapter argues that this approach faces four problems that severely limited the scope of legitimate governance by non-state actors in areas of limited statehood. They concern the definition of goods, the inclusiveness of governance services, the accountability of non-state actors, and the reliable assignment of responsibilities. We contend that these problems highlight the need for public institutions and explore whether and how non-state actors can assume public roles under conditions of limited statehood.
Keywords: legitimacy, authority, state-building, non-state actors, human rights, accountability, statehood
Daniel Jacob is a postdoctoral research associate at the SWP German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, Germany.
Bernd Ladwig is associate professor of political theory and philosophy at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Cord Schmelzle is a postdoctoral research associate at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
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- The Oxford Handbook of Governance and Limited Statehood
- Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood: Conceptual Clarifications and Major Contributions of the Handbook
- Theories of Development and Areas of Limited Statehood
- A Historical-Sociological Perspective on Statehood
- Anthropological Perspectives on the Limits of the State
- Critical Approaches
- Measuring Governance and Limited Statehood
- Histories of Governance
- A Global History of Governance
- Geographies of Limited Statehood
- External State Actors
- INGOs and Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships
- ‘Traditional’ Authorities
- Business
- Violent and Criminal Non-State Actors
- Coercion and Trusteeship
- Hierarchical and Non-Hierarchical Coordination
- Brokerage, Intermediation, Translation
- Social Trust
- Security
- Foreign Aid
- Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Democracy
- Health
- Food Security
- Education
- Environmental and Natural Resources
- Migration
- International Legal Order
- Normative Political Theory
- Policy
- Name Index
- Subject Index
