New Governance
From Bertelsmann Future Challenges
New Governance Mechanisms and Political Decision Making
Nation states are becoming increasingly incapable of creating solutions for such global challenges as demographic change, poverty-driven migration, new forms of terrorism and climate change. These developments require supranational structures and organizations like the European Union, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Establishing such structures requires nation states to transfer some of their own sovereignty to these organizations. Within individual states as well, new mechanisms of governance are being generated by policymaking's global dynamics. Formal laws and regulations are still important ways of governing, but they are now greatly impacted by other influences such as competitions, benchmarkings and monitoring programs that emphasize political performance -- especially at the subnational level. Another forward-looking model of allocating public goods seems to be cooperation between public and private actors in different policy fields (e. g. in form of public-private partnerships), which requires a new assessment of the nation state and its role. In addition, business methods are becoming more and more prevalent in public administration. These developments lead to the question of which future tasks states will have to fulfill themselves and which can be transferred to private actors. The impacts of globalization and the internal changes affecting sovereign states will reshape the traditional nation state from how it was known in the 20th century.
Correlations/Crosslinks
New Governance Sessions at the Global Economic Symposium 2011
The first link of each session will take you GES Policy Wiki on FutureChallenges.org to propose concrete solutions, the second link leads you to the GES 2011 Session Information.
- Norms for Global Governance: Solutions on the GES website
- Internet Governance Structures: Solutions on the GES website
- State Building in PakistanGES 2011 Round Table Information
Experts and Institutions
Open Government
- Open Government aus Bürgersicht
- Hintergrund-informationen zur Befragung
- Hintergrundinformationen zur Befragung
- Produkt- und Servicequalität
- Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt
- Gesicherte soziale und wirtschaftliche Lebensbedingungen
- Bildung und lebenslanges Lernen
- Gesunde Umwelt
Bertelsmann Transformation Index
Sustainable Governance Indicators
