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Papers by Tony Porter

Research paper thumbnail of Windows into the soul: surveillance and society in an age of high technology

Research paper thumbnail of POLITICS, INSTITUTIONS, CONSTRUCTIVISM and the EMERGING INTERNATIONAL REGIME for FINANCIAL REGULATION

Review of Policy Research, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Technical collaboration and political conflict in the emerging regime for international financial regulation

Review of International Political Economy, 2003

... a real possibility that the entire global financial system could collapse with potentially ca... more ... a real possibility that the entire global financial system could collapse with potentially catastrophic consequences for the international political economy. ... The second, the G20, brought together finance ministers and central bankers from the G7, Australia, and 11 large 'emerging ...

Research paper thumbnail of Technical systems and the architecture of transnational business governance interactions

Regulation & Governance, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Research Ethics Governance and Political Science in Canada

PS: Political Science & Politics, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Self-Regulation as Policy Process: The Multiple and Criss-Crossing Stages of Private Rule-Making

Policy Sciences, 2006

While there are many studies of self-regulation, they have not yet systematically analyzed the ve... more While there are many studies of self-regulation, they have not yet systematically analyzed the very process by which rules are developed and implemented. This article treats self-regulation as a process with sufficient autonomy and functional coherence to display identifiable stages, each of which deserves independent attention in turn. It draws from the literature on the stages of public policy processes and uses this as a template to identify and analyze the unique properties of private rule-making, while acknowledging the criticisms that have been made of excessive determinism and simplicity in some applications of the general idea of stages. The article shows that our understanding of self-regulation is significantly advanced by examining it as a process with stages but it emphasizes that the different stages of the self-regulatory policy process (agenda-setting, problem identification, decision, implementation and evaluation) are crisscrossed in numerous and interesting ways. It also shows that private rule-making often seeks to solve societal problems in domestic and international settings and is an important alternative to public regulation but self-regulation is rarely completely de-coupled from public authority. Instead, public authority is activated to solidify self-regulatory arrangements across the different stages of the policy process.

Research paper thumbnail of Public and private authority in the transnational response to the 2008 financial crisis

Policy and Society, 2011

A remarkable feature of the international policy response to the 2008 financial crisis has been t... more A remarkable feature of the international policy response to the 2008 financial crisis has been the degree to which it has relied heavily upon existing transnational regulatory arrangements involving public and private actors. The article starts by accounting theoretically for the autonomy of such arrangements. It then examines the role played by these networks before and during the crisis, while also acknowledging the relevance of competing approaches that emphasize the power of states and private actors. Understanding the role of these arrangements in shaping the interactions among public and private actors is important both for the reform of the global financial architecture, and for our more general theoretical understanding of transformations in sovereignty.

Research paper thumbnail of The new masters of capital: American bond rating agencies and the politics of creditworthiness

New Political Economy, 2005

... CHAPTER ONE Introduction We live again in a two-superpower world. ... delineated in chapter 3... more ... CHAPTER ONE Introduction We live again in a two-superpower world. ... delineated in chapter 3, is not purely technical but is linked to social and political interests. ... 5. On the growth in transactions, see Jon E. Hilsenrath, "Globalization Persists in Precarious New Age," Wall Street ...

Research paper thumbnail of Making serious measures: numerical indices, peer review, and transnational actor-networks

Journal of International Relations and Development, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Experimentalism in European Union and global financial governance: interactions, contrasts, and implications

Journal of European Public Policy, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of What Do Numbers Do in Transnational Governance?

International Political Sociology, 2012

This study examines how numbers in transnational governance constitute actors, objects, and relat... more This study examines how numbers in transnational governance constitute actors, objects, and relationships, including relationships of power. We review the existing literatures on numbers for insights relevant to their role in transnational governance, including the ontology of numbers, the history of numbers and their role in governance. On this basis, we set out the main distinctive ways that numbers are implicated in transnational governance. We conclude that studies of transnational governance would benefit from paying more attention to the much overlooked performative role of numbers in governance processes. Numbers have properties that differ from words, and shifts from one to the other in governance, for instance in the displacement of laws or norms with risk models or rankings based on numbers, have particular effects, including political effects on states, firms, individuals, and other actors and institutions.

Research paper thumbnail of Tracing Associations in Global Finance

International Political Sociology, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of The G8' S Role in the New Millennium

International Journal, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Teaching World Politics: Contending Pedagogies for a New World Order

International Journal, 1993

Research paper thumbnail of Leading Sectors and World Powers: The Coevolution of Global Economics and Politics

International Journal, 1996

... in current literature. After a critical comparison of the different definitions and a range o... more ... in current literature. After a critical comparison of the different definitions and a range of various practical illustrations, it provides key answers as to what a system ofsystems is and how its complexity can be mastered. Part 2 ...

Research paper thumbnail of Capital Mobility and Currency Markets: Can They Be Tamed?

International Journal, 1996

... Significantly, the second and third United States Advance Pricing Agreements, a key tool in .... more ... Significantly, the second and third United States Advance Pricing Agreements, a key tool in ... TheBasle Committee on Banking Supervision provides a model of the type of international collaboration that could be developed for imposing multilateral constraints on capital mobil-ity ...

Research paper thumbnail of States, Markets and Regimes in Global Finance

International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), 1994

Research paper thumbnail of International Institutions, Globalisation and Democracy: Assessing the Challenges

Research paper thumbnail of Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization

Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Imperial Power and Regional Trade: The Caribbean Basin Initiative Abigail B. Bakan, David Cox and Colin Leys, eds. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1993, pp. vii, 268

Canadian Journal of Political Science, 1995

... Traditional exports from these coun-tries continued to decline. ... 12 / Imperial Power and R... more ... Traditional exports from these coun-tries continued to decline. ... 12 / Imperial Power and RegionalTrade logic was twofold: it perpetuated the administration's "hard line" approach to the region ... this strategy for the rest of the region but as an official (rather than private) and multilat ...

Research paper thumbnail of Windows into the soul: surveillance and society in an age of high technology

Research paper thumbnail of POLITICS, INSTITUTIONS, CONSTRUCTIVISM and the EMERGING INTERNATIONAL REGIME for FINANCIAL REGULATION

Review of Policy Research, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Technical collaboration and political conflict in the emerging regime for international financial regulation

Review of International Political Economy, 2003

... a real possibility that the entire global financial system could collapse with potentially ca... more ... a real possibility that the entire global financial system could collapse with potentially catastrophic consequences for the international political economy. ... The second, the G20, brought together finance ministers and central bankers from the G7, Australia, and 11 large 'emerging ...

Research paper thumbnail of Technical systems and the architecture of transnational business governance interactions

Regulation & Governance, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of Research Ethics Governance and Political Science in Canada

PS: Political Science & Politics, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Self-Regulation as Policy Process: The Multiple and Criss-Crossing Stages of Private Rule-Making

Policy Sciences, 2006

While there are many studies of self-regulation, they have not yet systematically analyzed the ve... more While there are many studies of self-regulation, they have not yet systematically analyzed the very process by which rules are developed and implemented. This article treats self-regulation as a process with sufficient autonomy and functional coherence to display identifiable stages, each of which deserves independent attention in turn. It draws from the literature on the stages of public policy processes and uses this as a template to identify and analyze the unique properties of private rule-making, while acknowledging the criticisms that have been made of excessive determinism and simplicity in some applications of the general idea of stages. The article shows that our understanding of self-regulation is significantly advanced by examining it as a process with stages but it emphasizes that the different stages of the self-regulatory policy process (agenda-setting, problem identification, decision, implementation and evaluation) are crisscrossed in numerous and interesting ways. It also shows that private rule-making often seeks to solve societal problems in domestic and international settings and is an important alternative to public regulation but self-regulation is rarely completely de-coupled from public authority. Instead, public authority is activated to solidify self-regulatory arrangements across the different stages of the policy process.

Research paper thumbnail of Public and private authority in the transnational response to the 2008 financial crisis

Policy and Society, 2011

A remarkable feature of the international policy response to the 2008 financial crisis has been t... more A remarkable feature of the international policy response to the 2008 financial crisis has been the degree to which it has relied heavily upon existing transnational regulatory arrangements involving public and private actors. The article starts by accounting theoretically for the autonomy of such arrangements. It then examines the role played by these networks before and during the crisis, while also acknowledging the relevance of competing approaches that emphasize the power of states and private actors. Understanding the role of these arrangements in shaping the interactions among public and private actors is important both for the reform of the global financial architecture, and for our more general theoretical understanding of transformations in sovereignty.

Research paper thumbnail of The new masters of capital: American bond rating agencies and the politics of creditworthiness

New Political Economy, 2005

... CHAPTER ONE Introduction We live again in a two-superpower world. ... delineated in chapter 3... more ... CHAPTER ONE Introduction We live again in a two-superpower world. ... delineated in chapter 3, is not purely technical but is linked to social and political interests. ... 5. On the growth in transactions, see Jon E. Hilsenrath, "Globalization Persists in Precarious New Age," Wall Street ...

Research paper thumbnail of Making serious measures: numerical indices, peer review, and transnational actor-networks

Journal of International Relations and Development, 2012

Research paper thumbnail of Experimentalism in European Union and global financial governance: interactions, contrasts, and implications

Journal of European Public Policy, 2014

Research paper thumbnail of What Do Numbers Do in Transnational Governance?

International Political Sociology, 2012

This study examines how numbers in transnational governance constitute actors, objects, and relat... more This study examines how numbers in transnational governance constitute actors, objects, and relationships, including relationships of power. We review the existing literatures on numbers for insights relevant to their role in transnational governance, including the ontology of numbers, the history of numbers and their role in governance. On this basis, we set out the main distinctive ways that numbers are implicated in transnational governance. We conclude that studies of transnational governance would benefit from paying more attention to the much overlooked performative role of numbers in governance processes. Numbers have properties that differ from words, and shifts from one to the other in governance, for instance in the displacement of laws or norms with risk models or rankings based on numbers, have particular effects, including political effects on states, firms, individuals, and other actors and institutions.

Research paper thumbnail of Tracing Associations in Global Finance

International Political Sociology, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of The G8' S Role in the New Millennium

International Journal, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Teaching World Politics: Contending Pedagogies for a New World Order

International Journal, 1993

Research paper thumbnail of Leading Sectors and World Powers: The Coevolution of Global Economics and Politics

International Journal, 1996

... in current literature. After a critical comparison of the different definitions and a range o... more ... in current literature. After a critical comparison of the different definitions and a range of various practical illustrations, it provides key answers as to what a system ofsystems is and how its complexity can be mastered. Part 2 ...

Research paper thumbnail of Capital Mobility and Currency Markets: Can They Be Tamed?

International Journal, 1996

... Significantly, the second and third United States Advance Pricing Agreements, a key tool in .... more ... Significantly, the second and third United States Advance Pricing Agreements, a key tool in ... TheBasle Committee on Banking Supervision provides a model of the type of international collaboration that could be developed for imposing multilateral constraints on capital mobil-ity ...

Research paper thumbnail of States, Markets and Regimes in Global Finance

International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), 1994

Research paper thumbnail of International Institutions, Globalisation and Democracy: Assessing the Challenges

Research paper thumbnail of Territoriality and Conflict in an Era of Globalization

Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Imperial Power and Regional Trade: The Caribbean Basin Initiative Abigail B. Bakan, David Cox and Colin Leys, eds. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1993, pp. vii, 268

Canadian Journal of Political Science, 1995

... Traditional exports from these coun-tries continued to decline. ... 12 / Imperial Power and R... more ... Traditional exports from these coun-tries continued to decline. ... 12 / Imperial Power and RegionalTrade logic was twofold: it perpetuated the administration's "hard line" approach to the region ... this strategy for the rest of the region but as an official (rather than private) and multilat ...