NEW FORMS OF GOVERNANCE: CERTIFICATION REGIMES AS SOCIAL REGULATIONS OF THE GLOBAL MARKET
NEW FORMS OF GOVERNANCE: CERTIFICATION REGIMES AS SOCIAL REGULATIONS OF THE GLOBAL MARKET
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新的治理形式:认证制度作为全球市场的社会规则
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2003
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Virginia Haufler
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Virginia Haufler
In the past decade, a number of new forms of governance have emerged on the world stage, driven in part by the weaknesses and failures of traditional forms of regulation. The new forms include what might be called “social regulation of the market”, in which advocacy groups promoting action on a specific issue partner with the private sector to regulate the behavior of corporations. This partnership typically constructs codes of conduct, systems for monitoring and compliance, standards for public reporting, and increasingly the use of certification regimes to create market incentives for particular kinds of behavior. These systems are designed to work both with and without government involvement. This goes against our traditional views of who governs whom, and how regulatory systems are constructed. Regulation can be defined loosely as limits imposed on the behavior of particular actors, contained in rules and standards that are not voluntary. Typically, we view regulation as a function of national governments, and the targets of regulation are often the private sector. These two sides, public and private, stand in opposition to each other, especially in the United States. Increasingly, however, the borders between public and private sectors in the regulatory realm have become porous, and those doing the governance now include a variety of actors besides representatives of the state. This has changed our perceptions of what governance is, and how it is accomplished, especially in international affairs.