Liam Clegg – författare

Effective climate transition requires accelerated financing from public and private sources, and improved coordination between states and markets. Through Institutions for Climate Finance, the authors offer a forensic interrogation of structures capable of supporting effective response to the era-defining climate challenge. Combining high intellectual ambition and systematic engagement with scholarship across a range of social science traditions, they deliver insights that are analytically precise and which carry far-reaching implications. The book demonstrates how political institutions including government composition and electoral out-turns impact domestic climate spending, how national cultural values provide social institutional foundations for climate aid, and how economic institutional mechanisms including Central Bank asset purchases and underwriters' operations influence the performance of green bond markets. Clegg and Galindo-Gutiérrez cover technical nuance in an accessible format, introducing readers to the detail of government spending decisions and financial market dynamics that will determine the scale of climate financing released to support more sustainable ways of living and working. Overall, the book makes the case for an 'evidence-based optimism' on climate financing; by showing what works and identifying areas for improvement, advocacy and accountability efforts can be refined. Through highlighting the indeterminacy of current dynamics, Institutions for Climate Finance reminds us that the future of climate financing is yet to be written, leaving considerable space for our individual and collective agency to leave its mark.

Liam Clegg provides an innovative reading of where power lies in the institutions' concessional lending operations, drawing its focus on shareholders and stakeholders from staffs' own understandings of their operational environments.

Liam Clegg provides an innovative reading of where power lies in the institutions'' concessional lending operations, drawing its focus on shareholders and stakeholders from staffs'' own understandings of their operational environments.

New practices and institutions of global governance are often one of the most enduring consequences of global crises. The contemporary architecture of global governance has been widely criticized for failing to prevent the global financial crisis and Eurozone debt crises, for failing to provide robust international crisis management and leadership, and for failing to generate a consensus around new ideas for regulating markets in the broader public interest. Global Governance in Crisis explores the impact of the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 on the architecture and practice of contemporary global governance, and traces the long-term implications of the crisis for the future of the global order. Combining innovative theoretical approaches with rich empirical cases, the book examines how the impact of the global financial crisis has played out across a range of global governance domains, including development, finance and debt, trade, and security.This book was published as a special issue of Global Society.

New practices and institutions of global governance are often one of the most enduring consequences of global crises. The contemporary architecture of global governance has been widely criticized for failing to prevent the global financial crisis and Eurozone debt crises, for failing to provide robust international crisis management and leadership, and for failing to generate a consensus around new ideas for regulating markets in the broader public interest. Global Governance in Crisis explores the impact of the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 on the architecture and practice of contemporary global governance, and traces the long-term implications of the crisis for the future of the global order. Combining innovative theoretical approaches with rich empirical cases, the book examines how the impact of the global financial crisis has played out across a range of global governance domains, including development, finance and debt, trade, and security.This book was published as a special issue of Global Society.

Liam Clegg provides an innovative reading of where power lies in the institutions' concessional lending operations, drawing its focus on shareholders and stakeholders from staffs' own understandings of their operational environments.

The World Bank remains one of the most prominent actors in the field of global development, and one of the foremost international organisations in contemporary global politics. Over its history, its lending for housing has developed by prioritising financial sector expansion over the needs of low-income groups. Through this book, Liam Clegg explores the factors influencing change in the World Bank's operational practices, and the contribution of these operations to state transformations across the global South.The author outlines three main operational phases, in which the Bank prioritised: improving informal settlements, strengthening governments' housing finance programs, and expanding mortgage markets. Constrained experimentalism is identified as the driver of this changing focus, with trial and error-based learning interacting with personnel shifts and borrowers' reform trajectories to shape outcomes. In addition to reviewing relevant institutional dynamics at the World Bank, particular attention is paid to the impact of projects on housing system transformations in Mexico, China, and Tanzania. Overall, the declining focus on the housing needs of lower-income populations leads Clegg to label World Bank lending in this area as an exercise in mortgaging development.This valuable study of the field will be an important resource for researchers, postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students from across the fields of political science and international studies.