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The terminological understanding and concepts of government, to govern, and governance have undergone a significant evolution in recent decades. Most notable has been a shift away from focusing on the institution of “government” to instead assessing “governance.” Rather than portraying the act of governing as one of a sovereign entity presiding over the governed and sha** public life with a multitude of tools, modern interpretations of governance acknowledge the restraints governmental actors and institutions face in a complex, multilayered, and globalized environment. Political steering at the hands of a government now requires interactions and cooperation both with an increasing number of other public as well as private actors, as an accelerated globalization has frequently left national borders virtually obsolete. Whether the democratic standards of the domestic sphere can be replicated in the international realm to ensure continued democratic governance remains a topic of contention.
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Volker Sellin, Regierung, Regime, Obrigkeit, in: Otto Brunner / Werner Conze / Reinhart Kosseleck (eds.), Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe, Vol. 5, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1984, p. 363.
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Cf. Michael Zürn, Regieren jenseits des Nationalstaates. Globalisierung und Denationalisierung als Chance, Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 1998, pp. 169 ff.
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Wilhelm Hennis, Aufgaben einer modernen Regierungslehre, in: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 6 (1965) No. 4, p. 433.
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This having been the verdict of the widely known title of a 1969 special volume of the PVS (quarterly journal of the German Association for Political Science), edited by Ernst-Otto Czempiel.
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Renate Mayntz, Governance im modernen Staat, in: Arthur Benz (ed.), Governance, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2004, p. 66.
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Cf. James N. Rosenau / Ernst-Otto Czempiel (eds.), Governance without Government: Order and Change in World Politics, Cambridge: Routledge, 1992.
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Cf. Wolfgang Streeck, Gekaufte Zeit. Die vertagte Krise des demokratischen Kapitalismus, Frankfurt/Main: Suhrkamp, 2013.
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Cf., among others, Helmut Willke, Global Governance, Bielefeld: Transcript 2006; Maren Becker/Stefanie John/Stefan A. Schirm, Globalisierung und Global Governance, Paderborn: Fink, 2007.
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Cf. Rainer-Olaf Schultze, Governance – ein neues Regime, in: Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen 44 (2013) No. 3, pp. 667 ff.
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Cf., e.g., Ingo Take, Globales Regieren auf dem Prüfstand. Nicht demokratisch aber legitim?, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2013.
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Decker, F. (2019). Governance. In: Kühnhardt, L., Mayer, T. (eds) The Bonn Handbook of Globality. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90382-8_30
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