This volume addresses important questions about the governance of common goods and the crucial role of private actors. It explores how collective action problems can be solved institutionally when countries are faced with cross-boundary problems and a simultaneous lack of hierarchical guidance.

As European countries become more interdependent, the institutional provision of common goods increasingly must be organized across national boundaries, across levels of government, and across sectors. In addition, public and private decision-makers must collaborate. These new paradigms call for new institutional and instrumental arrangements that challenge existing modes of governance. This volume addresses important questions about the governance of common goods and the crucial role of private actors. The authors explore how collective action problems can be solved institutionally when countries are faced with cross-boundary problems and a simultaneous lack of hierarchical guidance.

Introduction - Adrienne Heritier
Part I: Common Goods -
Common Goods and Governance - Renate Mayntz
Context and Collective Action: Common Goods Provision in Multiple Arenas - Elinor Ostrom
The Provision of Transnational Common Goods: Regulatory Competition for Environmental Standards - Katharina Holzinger
Part II: Common Goods and the Role of Private Actors: International Level -
Private Actors and the State: Internationalization and Changing Patterns of Governance - Christoph Knill and Dirk Lehmkuhl
Negotiating Privacy across Arenas - The EU-US Safe Harbor Discussion - Henry Farrell
The Privatization of Global Governance and the Modern Law Merchant - Claire Cutler
Non-State Actors and the Compliance with International Institutions for the Provision of Common Goods: Concepts, Theories, Hypotheses - Tanja Borzel
Part III: Common Goods and the Role of Private Actors: European Level -
New Modes of Governance in Europe, Policy-making without legislation? - Adrienne Heritier
The Case of Public Mission against Competition Rules and Trade Rules - Leonor Moral Soriano
Part IV: Common Goods and the Role of Private Actors: National Level
The New Regulatory Regime. The Institutional Design of Telecommunications Regulation at the National Level - Dominik Bollhoff
Contracts and Resource Allocation: Markets and Law as the Basis of Policy Instruments - Guy Peters
A Constitutional Framework for Private Governance - Christoph Engel
Part V: Privatising Governance in the Financial Markets -
Private Makers of Global Public Policy: Bond Rating Agencies and the New Global Finance - Timothy Sinclair
Standardising as Governance: The Case of Credit Rating Agencies - Dieter Kerwer
Rating Agencies and Systemic Risk. Paradoxes of Governance - Torsten Strulik
Governing across Boundaries - Aspects of Governing the Knowledge Society - Helmut Willke.