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Governance and the Postnational Policy Process

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Global Futures

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The theoretical and methodological framework sketched below is a sensitizing perspective that, I suggest, is a suitable basis for developing a sociology of governance that critically engages the idea of globalization. The chapter falls into two parts, the first being a short description of the theoretical framework, the second focusing on globalization and the construction of a contemporary sociology of postnational governance. Anti-reductionist sociology is the name that I have given to a theoretical and methodological framework that I am currently developing (Sibeon 1997a; forthcoming) as part of an interest in the sociology of public policy and governance (Sibeon 1996, 1997b). In this sub-field there are good reasons for drawing not only on sociology but on recent work in the disciplines of political science and of public policy and policy analysis; this is reflected in the interdisciplinary flavour of the second part of the chapter.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

    Avtar Brah (Senior Lecturer in Sociology) (Senior Lecturer in Sociology)

  2. University of North London, UK

    Mary J. Hickman (Reader in European Studies and Director of the Irish Studies Centre) (Reader in European Studies and Director of the Irish Studies Centre)

  3. Sheffield University, UK

    Máirtín Mac an Ghaill (Professor of Sociology of Education) (Professor of Sociology of Education)

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Sibeon, R. (1999). Governance and the Postnational Policy Process. In: Brah, A., Hickman, M.J., an Ghaill, M.M. (eds) Global Futures. Explorations in Sociology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378537_5

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