5 research outputs found
Interrogating technology-led experiments in sustainability governance
Solutions to global sustainability challenges are increasingly technologyâintensive. Yet, technologies are neither developed nor applied to governance problems in a socioâpolitical vacuum. Despite aspirations to provide novel solutions to current sustainability governance challenges, many technologyâcentred projects, pilots and plans remain implicated in longerâstanding global governance trends shaping the possibilities for success in often underârecognized ways. This article identifies three overlapping contexts within which technologyâled efforts to address sustainability challenges are evolving, highlighting the growing roles of: (1) private actors; (2) experimentalism; and (3) informality. The confluence of these interconnected trends illuminates an important yet often underârecognized paradox: that the use of technology in multiâstakeholder initiatives tends to reduce rather than expand the set of actors, enhancing instead of reducing challenges to participation and transparency, and reinforcing rather than transforming existing forms of power relations. Without recognizing and attempting to address these limits, technologyâled multiâstakeholder initiatives will remain less effective in addressing the complexity and uncertainty surrounding global sustainability governance. We provide pathways for interrogating the ways that novel technologies are being harnessed to address longâstanding global sustainability issues in manners that foreground key ethical, social and political considerations and the contexts in which they are evolving
British preference formation during G20 negotiations over tax reform: 2009-2013
This dataset includes the data analyzed in "How Shared Ideas May Hinder Lobbying Success: British Preference Formation in the G20", published in the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. (Full paper available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/J2V7Z2WERWJED2PWKDMS/full?target=10.1080/09557571.2019.1655528 )
It contains contains 120 news articles (originally located at www.nexis.com) and interest group statements as well as official transcripts of 130 House of Commons debates (92 related to tax evasion/avoidance and 38 to discussions of a potential bank levy; originally located at https://hansard.parliament.uk/).
It also includes an online appendix summarizing the coding rules and procedures and presenting examples of coded statements