Global
policy making is unfurling in distinctive ways above traditional
nation-state policy processes. New practices of transnational
administration are emerging inside international organizations but also
alongside the trans-governmental networks of regulators and inside
global public private partnerships. Mainstream policy and public
administration studies have tended to analyse the capacity of public
sector hierarchies to globalize national policies. By contrast, this
Handbook investigates new public spaces of transnational policy-making,
the design and delivery of global public goods and services, and the
interdependent roles of transnational administrators who move between
business bodies, government agencies, international organizations, and
professional associations. This Handbook is novel in taking the concepts
and theories of public administration and policy studies to get inside
the black box of global governance. Transnational administration is a
multi-actor and multi-scalar endeavour having manifestations, depending
on the policy issue or problems, at the local, urban, sub-regional,
sub-national, regional, national, supranational, supra-regional,
transnational, international, and global scales. These scales of 'local'
and 'global' are not neatly bounded and nested spaces but are
articulated together in complex patterns of policy activity. These
transnational patterns represent a reinvigoration of public
administration and policy studies as the Handbook authors advance their
analysis beyond the methodological nationalism of the nation-state.
