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Governance and transnational civil society: the problem of transnational rent-seeking

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Journal of Civil Society, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 82 - 100

Swansea University Author: Gerard Clarke Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/17448689.2016.1133056

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The expansion of transnational civil society challenges the regulatory reach of nation-states, both individually and collectively. One regulatory challenge is that transnational civil society organizations (TCSOs) can avail of opportunities to engage in, or facilitate, transnational rent-seeking in...

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Published in: Journal of Civil Society
Published: 2016
Online Access: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcis20
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