Columbia International Affairs Online
CIAO DATE: 11/5/2007
Der Governance-Raum als Analysefaktor
January 2007
Abstract
The paper, composed for the Research Center (SFB) 700 “Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood: New Modes of Governance?” shall develop standards for the comparison of governance under diff erent socio-cultural and historical settings. First, the governance concept is narrowed down to empirically determinable factors such as the governance output, the factual actors and their modes of production and coordination. The lack of normativity deriving from this practice shall be overcome by adding the concept of “governance space” to the proposed mapping. The governance space covers all those circumstances that are characteristic for governance in a society at a certain point of time. Thus, the concept of governance gains high potential for comparative governance analysis without having to let go normative standards. The research programme of SFB 700 already tends to this solution when it explicitly analyzes “governance in areas of limited statehood” and not only “under the circumstances of limited statehood“.
