Social governance is a hot topic in today's society. From the "social management" to "social governance", the latter more embodies the diversity of participation, which means based on an equal partnership, government, social organizations, enterprises, communities, individuals and other actors regulate and manage social affairs, social organizations and social life according to the law, and ult...

Xiaopu Sun is a Law Fellow at the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development in Washington, D.C. Kenneth J. Markowitz, an attorney, is the President of Earthpace LLC and the Senior Clean Energy and Environmental Consultant with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld. Durwood Zaelke is the founder and President of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development in Washington, D.C., ...

Abstract—This study utilizes a frequency domain approach over the period of 1996 to 2013 to examine the causal relationship between governance and economic growth in ten Asian countries, which have different levels of democracy; classified as “Free”, “Partly Free”, and “Not Free” countries. The empirical results show that there is no Granger causality running from governance to economic growth ...

The French adoption of a corporate board quota for women reflects Europe's increasingly stakeholder-oriented approach to corporate governance, one that stands in marked contrast with that of the United States. This Article discusses how the corporate board quota will shift French and European corporate governance. The change accentuates an already established stakeholder corporate culture wides...

Our article is a methodological critique of the recent legal origins literature. We start by showing that the legal origins literature cannot easily be based on the efficiency hypothesis of the common law. By debunking the relationship between the efficiency hypothesis and the legal origins literature, we are left with no consistent theory to explain the alleged inferiority of French civil law....

INTRODUCTION Information technology (IT) standards allow different technologies, including hardware, software, and even people, to interact, thereby forming systems. Without information technology standards, there can be no information systems (IS). Thus, standards development is one of the most important activities of technology vendors. It is also one of the most difficult because it requires...

Environmental law has quietly transformed from a positive law field deeply rooted in administrative law to one that is also heavily rooted in private law and private governance. After two decades (1970–1990) of remarkable activity, more than two decades have now passed without a major federal environmental statute (1991–2012). Whether the appropriate next step is expansion or contraction, refor...

This research presents the components of electronic government procurement (E-GP) that can create good governance in government procurement thorough e-auction. A survey was conducted with Thai government officers who are involved in egovernment procurement. There are five major factors that enhance governance procurement: strict e-procurement process, public officer, political official, vendor,...

This paper turns to the insights of New Governance in order to explain how law was used to promote innovations in health care governance in the Canadian province of Ontario between 2004 and 2012. New Governance refers to a family of approaches that are more flexible and less prescriptive. My research includes review of government documents, legislation and other sources in order to identify cha...

Legal and institutional structures fundamentally shape opportunities for adaptive governance of environmental resources at multiple ecological and societal scales. Properties of adaptive governance are widely studied. However, these studies have not resulted in consolidated frameworks for legal and institutional design, limiting our ability to promote adaptation and social-ecological resilience...