Governance Entrepreneurs

Liliana B. Andonova is Professor of International Relations and Political Science, and Academic Co-Director of the Center for International Environmental Studies at the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies, Geneva. She is the author of Transnational Politics of the Environment (2003); co-author of Transnational Climate Change Governance (Cambridge, 2014); and co-editor of a special issue on the Comparative Politics of Transnational Climate Governance of the journal International Interactions (2017).

• 1. Introduction: global partnerships; 2. Theory of dynamic institutional change; 3. The UN secretariat: crafting normative space for partnerships; 4. UNEP and the World Bank: extending sustainability via partnerships; 5. Partnerships for children and health; 6. Conclusion – institutional diversity and global partnerships; Annex: constructing the global partnerships database.

'Governance Entrepreneurs is a pioneering account of the emergence, diffusion and institutionalization of global public-private partnerships. In this innovative and important book, Liliana B. Andonova persuasively shows that coalition-building agents can build effective public-private partnerships as part of what she calls 'an iterative cycle of change'.' Robert O. Keohane, Professor (Emeritus), Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, New Jersey