'Professional judgement has always mattered in policy making. Yet, as this volume argues and outlines, in transnational governance the professions may matter more in devising rules, benchmarks and standards, or in exercising their technical and epistemic authority via new governance architectures of networks. This is a compelling set of studies that provides a different and more nuanced conceptual vantage point for social scientists concerned with not only how transnational problems are managed, but also with the wider range of professional actors who seek to define and control them. The book is a 'must-read' for anyone interested in professional network power.' Diane Stone, Centenary Research Professor, Institute of Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra, and University of Warwick
Part I. Frames and Methods: 1. Issue control in transnational professional and organizational networks Leonard Seabrooke and Lasse Folke Henriksen; 2. In the 'field' of transnational professionals: a post-Bourdieusian approach to transnational legal entrepreneurs Yves Dezalay and Michael Rask Madsen; 3. Studying elite professionals in transnational settings Brooke Harrington 4. Networks and sequences in the study of professionals and organizations Lasse Folke Henriksen and Leonard Seabrooke; Part II. Professionals and Non-Government Organizations: 5. Contested professionalization in a weak transnational field Ole Jacob Sending; 6. The Ford Foundation: building and domesticating the field of human rights Wendy H. Wong, Ron Levi and Julia Deutsch; 7. Accounting-NGO professional networks: issue control over environmental, social and governance reporting Jason Thistlethwaite; 8. All the trader's men: professionals in international trade policymaking Matthew Eagleton-Pierce; 9. Professional activists on tax transparency Duncan Wigan and Adam Baden; Part III. Professionals and International Organizations: 10. Esteem as professional currency and consolidation: the rise of the macroprudential cognoscenti Andrew Baker; 11. Treating market failure: access professionals in global health Adriana Nilsson; 12. Professions and policy dynamics in the transnational carbon emissions trading network Matthew Paterson, Matthew Hoffman, Michele Betsill and Steven Bernstein; 13. Quasi-professionals in the organization of transnational crisis mapping John Karlsrud and Arthur Mühlen-Schulte; Part IV. Professionals and Market Organisations: 14. Global professional service firms and institutionalization James Faulconbridge and Daniel Muzio; 15. Global professional service firms, transnational organizing and core/periphery networks Mehdi Boussebaa; 16. Professional management consultants in transnational governance Bessma Momani; 17. Professional and organizational logics in internet regulation James Perry and David Kempel; 18. Conclusion: issue professionals and transnational organizing Lasse Folke Henriksen and Leonard Seabrooke.