IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/zbw/mpifgd/0514.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Embedded Theorizing: Perspectives on Globalization and Global Governance

Author

Listed:
  • Mayntz, Renate

Abstract

In the face of a vast, but highly heterogeneous literature, this paper examines the factors that shape different scientific perspectives on the loosely bounded set of phenomena addressed by the terms 'globalization' and 'global governance'. Based on the secondary analysis of research funded by the German Volkswagen Foundation, the paper shows first how the disciplinary paradigms of economics, law, and the social sciences lead to different perspectives on a shared object. In a second step, intra-disciplinary differences in perspective are analyzed. Based on a comprehensive review of the relevant social science literature, it is first shown how changes in world politics since World War II are reflected in the scientific perspective on globalization and global governance. In a final section, different perspectives of American and European scholars are then linked to differences in geopolitical context that have developed since the end of the Cold War on both sides of the Atlantic. The findings alert scholars to the contingent nature of their ways of perceiving, evaluating, and studying a given scientific object.

Suggested Citation

  • Mayntz, Renate, 2005. "Embedded Theorizing: Perspectives on Globalization and Global Governance," MPIfG Discussion Paper 05/14, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:mpifgd:0514
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/19928/1/dp05-14.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Strange,Susan, 1996. "The Retreat of the State," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521564298.
    2. Martin, Lisa L. & Simmons, Beth A., 1998. "Theories and Empirical Studies of International Institutions," International Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 52(4), pages 729-757, October.
    3. Jonathon W. Moses, 1994. "Abdication from National Policy Autonomy: What's Left to Leave?," Politics & Society, , vol. 22(2), pages 125-148, June.
    4. Ruggie, John Gerard, 1982. "International regimes, transactions, and change: embedded liberalism in the postwar economic order," International Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 36(2), pages 379-415, April.
    5. Martin, Lisa L., 1992. "Interests, power, and multilateralism," International Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 46(4), pages 765-792, October.
    6. Strange,Susan, 1996. "The Retreat of the State," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521564403.
    7. Scharpf, Fritz W., 2000. "The viability of advanced welfare states in the international economy. Vulnerabilities and options," European Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 8(3), pages 399-425, July.
    8. Mayntz, Renate & Scharpf, Fritz W., 2005. "Politische Steuerung - Heute?," MPIfG Working Paper 05/1, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies.
    9. Dryzek, John S. & Leonard, Stephen T., 1988. "History and Discipline in Political Science," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 82(4), pages 1245-1260, December.
    10. Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic & Sigrid Quack, 2003. "Globalization and institutions : redefining the rules of the economic game," Post-Print hal-01892012, HAL.
    11. Elster,Jon, 1983. "Explaining Technical Change," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521270724.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Schiller, Frank, 2009. "Linking material and energy flow analyses and social theory," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 68(6), pages 1676-1686, April.
    2. Kessler, Johannes, 2007. "Globalisierung oder Integration. Korrespondenzprobleme bei der empirischen Erfassung von Globalisierungsprozessen," TranState Working Papers 53, University of Bremen, Collaborative Research Center 597: Transformations of the State.
    3. Pies, Ingo, 2006. "Markt versus Staat? - Über Denk- und Handlungsblockaden in Zeiten der Globalisierung," Discussion Papers 2006-4, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Chair of Economic Ethics.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Mayntz, Renate, 2009. "Sozialwissenschaftliches Erklären: Probleme der Theoriebildung und Methodologie," Schriften aus dem Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung Köln, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, volume 63, number 63.
    2. Suddaby, Roy & Cooper, David J. & Greenwood, Royston, 2007. "Transnational regulation of professional services: Governance dynamics of field level organizational change," Accounting, Organizations and Society, Elsevier, vol. 32(4-5), pages 333-362.
    3. Marian Negoita, 2014. "Globalization, state, and innovation: An appraisal of networked industrial policy," Regulation & Governance, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 8(3), pages 371-393, September.
    4. Justin Beaumont, 2008. "Faith Action on Urban Social Issues," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 45(10), pages 2019-2034, September.
    5. Hanna Lierse & Laura Seelkopf, 2016. "Room to Manoeuvre? International Financial Markets and the National Tax State," New Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(1), pages 145-165, February.
    6. Pitruzzello, Salvatore, 2004. "Trade Globalization, Economic Performance, and Social Protection: Nineteenth-Century British Laissez-Faire and Post–World War II U.S.-Embedded Liberalism," International Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 58(4), pages 705-744, October.
    7. Nitzan, Jonathan & Bichler, Shimshon, 2018. "El capital como poder. Un estudio del orden y el creorden," EconStor Books, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, number 177844, July.
    8. Brown Dana L & Vetterlein Antje & Roemer-Mahler Anne, 2010. "Theorizing Transnational Corporations as Social Actors: An Analysis of Corporate Motivations," Business and Politics, De Gruyter, vol. 12(1), pages 1-39, April.
    9. Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil & Tzagkarakis, Stylianos Ioannis, 2018. "Der Wohlfahrtstaat als Grundbestandteil des modernen demokratischen Staatsgefüges [The welfare state as a basic component of the modern democratic state structure]," MPRA Paper 86639, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    10. Doh, Jonathan P. & Dahan, Nicolas M. & Casario, Michelle, 2022. "MNEs and the practice of international business diplomacy," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 31(1).
    11. Marie-Laure Salles-Djelic, 2011. "From the Rule of Law to the Law of Rules," Post-Print hal-01891972, HAL.
    12. Arts, Bas, 2014. "Assessing forest governance from a ‘Triple G’ perspective: Government, governance, governmentality⁎⁎This article belongs to the Special Issue: Assessing Forest Governance," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 49(C), pages 17-22.
    13. Nathan Jensen, 2007. "International institutions and market expectations: Stock price responses to the WTO ruling on the 2002 U.S. steel tariffs," The Review of International Organizations, Springer, vol. 2(3), pages 261-280, September.
    14. Keyan Lai, 2021. "National security and FDI policy ambiguity: A commentary," Journal of International Business Policy, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 4(4), pages 496-505, December.
    15. Michele-Lee Moore & Frances R. Westley & Tim Brodhead, 2012. "Social Finance Intermediaries and Social Innovation," Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 3(2), pages 184-205, October.
    16. Assen Slim, 2015. "L’aide européenne (1989-2020) aux PECO sous le prisme de l’économie politique internationale (EPI)," Post-Print hal-01271881, HAL.
    17. Simplice A, Asongu, 2011. "Government quality determinants of stock market performance in developing countries," MPRA Paper 35508, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    18. Mark Hallerberg, 2002. "Introduction," European Union Politics, , vol. 3(2), pages 139-150, June.
    19. Zoltan Adam, 2004. "Autonomy and capacity: a state-centred approach to post-communist transition in Central Europe," UCL SSEES Economics and Business working paper series 40, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES).
    20. Lena Partzsch, 2011. "The legitimacy of biofuel certification," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 28(3), pages 413-425, September.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:zbw:mpifgd:0514. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/mpigfde.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.