Policy Networks

Abstract

The study of variations in patterns of transnationalization lies at the core of an emerging research agenda in the field of international development that focuses on the relationship between processes of transnationalization and domestic integration. That agenda examines how the rapid transnationalization of states, economies, and civil societies expose crucial networks spanning national boundaries, and asks how these networks interact with networks in the domestic setting. Public policy analysis of transnationalization refers frequently to networks in conceptualizing forms of governance and describing emerging forms of policymaking or interest intermediation. The concept of networks is being increasingly used in theory formation and the formulation of policy prescriptions. There is however yet a low awareness in this literature of the diverse tools available in network science, and there is not yet a dialogue between scholars from these two areas. We invite papers that try to narrow this gap. Here is a non-encompassing list of possible questions that the papers might address: What roles do various transnational networks of firms, policy makers or civil society organizations play in shaping the capacities of domestic states to govern development? What is the relationship between the patterns of transnational network ties and modes of economic integration? What role is /could be/ played by transnational economic networks furthering regulatory or product integration and development?

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