Governance: Origins and Concepts @ Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

1. GOVERNANCE: Origins and Concepts (Session II)
Prof. Richard Connolly
Governance and Global Public Policy
Presented by: Samuel ELUSOJI
Sunday, November 13, 2016
Moscow, Russia

2. OUTLINE
INTRODUCTION
• - What is not Globalisation? And What is?
• - Conceptual frameworks for understanding Global
Public Policy (GPP)
• - Any Successful Case Study?
DISCUSSION TOPICS:
MAIN ARGUMENT:
Outcomes crave more
importance than processes?
CONCLUSION

3. INTRODUCTION
Governance processes (at all levels) consider how the
best possible decisions are made to conduct public affairs
and manage public resources. The ultimate aim is to
achieve sustainable prosperity and social equity
(outcomes).
Public policy has been a prisoner of the word ‘state’. The state is
re-configured by globalization. Through ‘global public-private
partnerships’ and ‘transnational executive networks’ new forms
of authority are emerging through global and regional policy
processes that co-exist alongside nation-state policy processes.
(Stone, 2008)

4. DISCUSSION TOPICS
What is not Globalisation?
• It is not the movement of national power structures of
hierarchies to controlled supranational networks, neither is
it a form of centralized compulsion or nation state
imposition – it is not world government.
And What is?
• Globalisation is a process (not an event) where the nation
state’s role/power relatively declines in the
implementation of national policies. In this sense,
globalisation does not require a complete disintegration of
the nation state. Rather it requires a reconstruction of the
nation state as an empowering instrument of international
capital. (Subasat, 2008)

5. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS FOR
UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL PUBLIC POLICY (1)
Global policy processes have emerged with
governments, international organisations and non-state
actors responding to three types of policy problems:
‘transboundary problems’ of cross border
movement money laundering, pollution or
drug trafficking;
‘common property problems’ regarding
oceans, Antarctica, the atmosphere;
‘simultaneous problems’ of nations experiencing
similar problems in areas of education; health,
welfare, urbanisation and population growth.

6. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS FOR
UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL PUBLIC POLICY (2)
How to Recognize GPP? Functions?
Averting risks of dual actor – market and state – failure: the
defining property of public goods, including global public goods, is their
publicness in consumption, i.e. they affect everyone, for better or worse.
Promoting global fairness
Facilitating global issue management – This holds especially for
global public goods. In many cases, their provision path is multi-
actor, multi-sector and, importantly, multilevel.
Fostering a coherent, efficient and equitable
management of the global public domain (Kaul, 2013)

7. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS FOR
UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL PUBLIC POLICY (3)
3. Transnational policy professionals: Consultants, NGO leaders,
corporate executives, scientific experts, etc.
2. International civil servants: UN, OECD, EU etc. Travel frequently
with no allegiance to state per se.
1. Internationalised public officials: delegates of states
Three types of political actors are central in agora as
posited by Stone (2008):

8. A SUCCESSFUL CASE?
• The WHO Framework Convention
Tobacco Control (2003) which is now has
168 Signatories, including the European
Community, which makes it one of the
most widely embraced treaties in UN
history.
• A 2012 Global progress report of the
treaty says: When comparison is made of
progess between the initial (2007 – 2010)
and 2012 reporting periods, the measures
related to education,
communication and training (Articles 12),
advertising, promotion, and sponsorship
(Article 13), and protection from exposure to
tobacco smoke (Article 8), emerge as those
with the highest positive changes in
implementation rates.
• The global advertising cliché
“Smokers are liable to die young” is
as a result of the framework.

9. MAIN ARGUMENT
The ‘Global public policy’ practice
evident through the activities and
interventions of transnational
organisations (U.N., World Bank,
W.E.F., Transparency International
etc.) has gained distinct
preeminence in policy problem
definition and advocacy more than
it has in implementation and
compliance.
Given the premise (which highlights
why most scholars are yet to identify with
the concept of ‘global public policy’),
there is not any distinct, mutual
co-existence (alignment)
between global public policies
and the decision of nation states
because in governance
(especially at the national level)
outcomes tend to crave more
attention than processes.

10. CONCLUSION
In the theory and practice of global
governance, there must be some
combination of shared beliefs (lends
legitimacy and protects national
sovereignty) and distribution of power
(representation of interests).

11. REFERENCES
• Stone Diane, (2008) 'Global Public Policy, Transnational Policy Communities,
and their Networks,' Policy Studies Journal, 36: 19-38
• Turan Subasat, (2008) What is Globalisation and What is Not?: A Political
Economy Perspective
• Inge Kaul, (2013) Global Public Policy: A Policy in the Making
• http://www.who.int/fctc/text_download/en/

12. THANKS FOR
YOUR AUDIENCE