Abstract This forum reimagines polycentric governance. It develops ideas of “ordered polycentrism” that can help international relations scholarship make fuller sense contemporary governance global affairs. How we theorize the implicit bonding forces bring deeper order to surface disorganization governance? We offer a key corrective actor-focused institutionalist understandings by showing how p...

The article studies the transformation of Western liberal democratic model and international relations amid Cold War II. Sources authoritarianism are identified, West’s ongoing authoritarian turn is conceptualized in terms postliberalism. latter scrutinized through political efforts to protect democracy its values, establish global Gemeinschaft democracies containment, deterrence, encirclement....

The recent availability of data for cities has allowed scientists to exhibit scalings which present themselves in the form of a power-law dependence on population of various socio-economical and structural indicators. We propose here a stochastic theory of urban growth which accounts for some of the observed scalings and we confirm these predictions on US and OECD empirical data. In particular,...

The issues of territorial organisation in Europe is not something new, neither are cities interacting in networks. Study conducted over the last few years made it possible to develop several functional urban models that have interesting features. However, because they are always positioned within a logic of competition in interpreting territorial dynamics, the models are restricted to a hierarc...

In much of the developing world, a model of polycentric governance has become increasingly prevalent for the control of health and infectious disease - one in which a panoply of governance actors work concurrently on the same development projects, within the same localities. And yet, the question of whether polycentrism helps or hinders disease control/mitigation, or service provision more gene...

The European Union's Clean Energy Package (CEP) plans to transform ‘passive consumers’ into ‘active citizens’ support the transition a carbon-neutral energy system by 2050. By stimulating growth of renewable communities, CEP works towards redefinition as an economic commodity common good. In this paper, we approach implementation through notion polycentricity. Building on previous literature, i...