Dear colleagues, I would like to share with you a new mini-book recently published titled: “Remaking Political Institutions: Climate Change and Beyond”, published by Cambridge University Press in the Elements series on Earth System Governance.
The piece explores the politics of institutional improvement in light of mounting institutional failures in contemporary governance. It argues that we should approach this as a problem of ‘remaking’ institutions, thereby emphasizing the political work involved. Overall, the piece advocates a prospective perspective on institutional change, and the structural politics of sustainability transformation more broadly. The Element is open access and available here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/remaking-political-institutions-climate-change-and-beyond/BEB70628E64C905677DF6C55AC84A461 ***** ABSTRACT Institutions are failing in many areas of contemporary politics, not least of which concerns climate change. However, remedying such problems is not straightforward. Pursuing institutional improvement is an intensely political process, playing out over extended timeframes, and intricately tied to existing setups. Such activities are open-ended, and outcomes are often provisional and indeterminate. The question of institutional improvement, therefore, centers on understanding how institutions are (re)made within complex settings. This Element develops an original analytical foundation for studying institutional remaking and its political dynamics. It explains how institutional remaking can be observed and provides a typology comprising five areas of institutional production involved in institutional remaking (Novelty, Uptake, Dismantling, Stability, Interplay). This opens up a new research agenda on the politics of responding to institutional breakdown, and brings sustainability scholarship into closer dialogue with scholarship on processes of institutional change and development. ***** With kind regards, James Dr. James Patterson | Assistant Professor of Institutional Dynamics in Sustainability | Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development | Faculty of Geosciences - Utrecht University | Vening Meineszgebouw A, Princetonlaan 8A 3585CB Utrecht, The Netherlands | room 7.18 | T. +31 30 253 1509 | [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | https://www.uu.nl/staff/JJPatterson/Profile -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/04A4D34E-2DF6-4DE2-91E3-8D476119A3CA%40uu.nl.
