International Organizations in Global Social Governance by Ke... - 9783030654382

International Organizations in Global Social GovernanceAuthor(s): Kerstin Martens, Dennis Niemann, Alexandra Kaasch\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG\nISBN-13: 9783030654382, 978-3030654382\nSynopsis\nInternational Organizations (IOs) are important actors within global social governance. They provide forums for exchange, contention and cooperation about social policies. Our knowledge about the involvement of IOs varies significantly by policy fields, andwe know comparatively little about the specific roles of IOs in social policies.\n\nThis volume enhances and systematizes our understanding of IOs in global social governance. It provides studies on a variety of social policy fields in which different, but also the same, IOs operate.\n\nThe chapters shed light on IO involvement in a particular social policy field by describing the population of participating IOs; exploring how a particular global social p.