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Overview

Kenneth W. Abbott is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily within social sciences, with significant contributions to development, political science and international relations, global and planetary change, sociology and political science, and strategy and management.

The scientist has published extensively on topics such as international development and aid, international relations and foreign policy, sustainability and climate change governance, political conflict and governance, peacebuilding and international security, public procurement and policy, and European Union policy and governance.

Recent papers authored by Kenneth W. Abbott include:

  • Choosing low-cost institutions in global governance, 2020, International Theory
  • Hybrid institutional complexes in global governance, 2021, The Review of International Organizations
  • Beyond opportunism: Intermediary loyalty in regulation and governance, 2021, Regulation & Governance

Other influential recent papers relevant to their field of study, though not authored by Abbott, are:

  • Informal governance in world politics, 2020, The Review of International Organizations
  • Issue Information, 2022, Regulation & Governance

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most frequent coauthors include Thomas J. Biersteker, Benjamin Faude, Duncan Snidal, Tim Bartley, and Graeme Auld.

Publication venues where Kenneth W. Abbott's work appears most often include:

  • Regulation & Governance
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Review of International Organizations
  • International Theory
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks

Kenneth W. Abbott's work spans key interdisciplinary areas emphasizing global governance and regulatory processes, engaging both theoretical frameworks and applied perspectives within international institutions and political economy.

Best Publications

  • Why States Act through Formal International Organizations

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Duncan Snidal

  • Strengthening international regulation through Transnational New Governance : Overcoming the orchestration deficit

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Duncan Snidal

  • CHAPTER TWO. The Governance Triangle: Regulatory Standards Institutions and the Shadow of the State

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Duncan Snidal

  • The governance triangle: Regulatory standards institutions and the shadow of the state

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Duncan Snidal

  • Navigating the Anthropocene: Improving Earth System Governance

    F. Biermann;F. Biermann;K. Abbott;S. Andresen;Karin Bäckstrand

  • International Organizations as Orchestrators

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Philipp Genschel;Duncan Snidal;Bernhard Zangl

  • The Transnational Regime Complex for Climate Change

    Kenneth W Abbott

  • Organizational Ecology and Institutional Change in Global Governance

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Jessica F. Green;Robert O. Keohane

  • International regulation without international government: Improving IO performance through orchestration

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Duncan Snidal

  • Theorizing Regulatory Intermediaries: The RIT Model

    Kenneth W. Abbott;David Levi-faur;Duncan Snidal

  • Transforming governance and institutions for global sustainability: key insights from the Earth System Governance Project

    Frank Biermann;Frank Biermann;Kenneth Abbott;Steinar Andresen;Karin Bäckstrand

  • Reinvigorating International Climate Policy: A Comprehensive Framework for Effective Nonstate Action

    Sander Chan;Harro van Asselt;Thomas Hale;Kenneth W. Abbott

  • Hard and Soft Law in International Governance

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Duncan Snidal

  • Two Logics of Indirect Governance: Delegation and Orchestration

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Philipp Genschel;Duncan Snidal;Bernhard Zangl

  • The High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development: Orchestration by Default and Design

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Steven Bernstein

  • Strengthening the Transnational Regime Complex for Climate Change

    Kenneth W. Abbott

  • Engaging the public and the private in global sustainability governance

    Kenneth W. Abbott

  • Taking responsive regulation transnational: Strategies for international organizations

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Duncan Snidal

  • Orchestration

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  • Orchestration : global governance through intermediaries

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Philipp Genschel;Duncan Snidal;Bernhard Zangl

  • Introducing Regulatory Intermediaries

    Kenneth W. Abbott;David Levi-Faur;Duncan Snidal

  • Informal governance in world politics

    Oliver Westerwinter;Oliver Westerwinter;Kenneth W. Abbott;Thomas Biersteker

  • Orchestrating experimentation in non-state environmental commitments

    Kenneth W. Abbott

  • SOFT LAW OVERSIGHT MECHANISMS FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Gary E. Marchant;Elizabeth A. Corley

  • Competence versus control : The governor’s dilemma

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Philipp Genschel;Duncan Snidal;Bernhard Zangl

  • High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Steven Bernstein

  • Modern International Relations Theory: A Prospectus for International Lawyers

    Kenneth W. Abbott

  • Strengthening international regulation through transnational new governance : overcoming the orchestration deficitthrough Orchestration

    Kenneth W. Abbott;Duncan Snidal

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary E. Marchant
Gary E. Marchant Arizona State University
Errol Meidinger
Errol Meidinger University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Joyeeta Gupta
Joyeeta Gupta University of Amsterdam
Diana Liverman
Diana Liverman University of Arizona
Julia Black
Julia Black London School of Economics and Political Science
Louis Lebel
Louis Lebel Chiang Mai University
Lennart Olsson
Lennart Olsson Lund University
Andrew Jordan
Andrew Jordan University of East Anglia
Harriet Bulkeley
Harriet Bulkeley Durham University
Coleen Vogel
Coleen Vogel University of the Witwatersrand

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