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Abstract:
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"This article aims at contributing to governance conceptualization and its
application to case study analyses. Two of the challenges which the theoretical and
empirical work in the article addresses concern the facilitation of comparability of
diverse governance cases and a specification of several key mechanisms of governance
formation and reform. A proposed model of the architecture of governance systems
their major components and inter-linkages contributes, as argued and illustrated
here, to greater comparability among cases and with the possibility of improved
accumulation of knowledge about governance systems. These tools are applied to
empirical cases of governance structure and their functioning and reformation. Baltic
fisheries, a complex, multi-level case of commons governance, is considered in some
detail in order to illustrate and elaborate the key factors of power, knowledge, and
conflict in the functioning and transformation of governance systems. In addition
to the Baltic fisheries case, we consider briefly for comparative purposes chemicals
and gender relations as additional areas of EU governance. The paper is divided
into four sections. Section I introduces the basic conceptualization and tools of
analysis. Section II presents the case of Baltic fisheries. Section III elaborates the
key concepts and tools presented in Section I, in particular considering additional
cases of the functioning of governance systems. Section IV is a brief conclusion."
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