Jessica Green, Ph.D. ’10, was awarded the 2015 Levine Book Prize for her dissertation, “Rethinking Private Authority: Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance,” published by Princeton University Press. Green, who studied international politics at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, is an assistant professor in the environmental studies department at New York University.

 

The prize is sponsored by the international policy journal Governance and awarded by the International Political Science Association’s Research Committee on the Structure and Organization of Government. The annual selection is made in favor of a book that has made a significant contribution to the field of public policy for both scholars and practitioners.

 

“This fascinating book is a decisive contribution to the governance debate as it investigates the emergence, growth and influence of private actors in global environmental and climate governance,” the Committee said. “It offers an innovative and novel theoretical approach, differentiating between ‘delegated private authority’ where state actors explicitly delegate rule-making authority to private actors and ‘entrepreneurial private authority’ where private actors engage in rule-making without such a delegation of state authority.”

 

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