Dear Colleagues, It is my pleasure to announce that Oxford University Press has just published our book: RETHINKING PARTICIPATION IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: Voice and Influence after Stakeholder Reforms in Global Finance and Health Tim Büthe, lead editor Joost Pauwelyn, Martino Maggetti & Ayelet Berman, co-editors It is available now from your local bookstore or online booksellers worldwide or directly from Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/rethinking-participation-in-global-governance-9780198852568 This interdisciplinary volume examines what happens in the aftermath of global governance reforms that are supposed to increase participation by traditionally marginalized or excluded stakeholders (esp. stakeholders from the Global South; see extended summary below). It is the result of a multi-year project led by international relations and international law scholars, with contributions from scholars drawn from across the social sciences. The book also includes commentaries from practitioners from international organizations, national governments, and civil society organizations. The publication (and release in the US & Canada) has occurred just in time for an: Author(s)-Meet(s)-Critics panel at the American Political Science Association's 2022 Annual Meeting Friday, 16 September 2022, 10:00-11:30 in Room 523B, Palais de Congrés (5th fllor) Should you be attending APSA, please join us for the discussion with panelists: Beth Simmons, University of Pennsylvania (Law & Politcal Science) Phillip Lipscy, University of Toronto Daniel Nielson, University of Texas, Austin Rethinking Participation in Global Governance - extended summary: Many global governance bodies have in the last twenty years or so reformed their decisionmaking procedures and practices with the ostensible purpose of increasing the participation of traditionally marginalized or outright excluded ("disregarded") stakeholders. This book examines what happens in the aftermath of those institutional reforms - and in the process reconceptualizes participation: We differentiate between (i) "voice opportunities" that are a function of the rules and procedures of any particular global governance body, (ii) actual voice participation in the sense of "engagement" by the stakeholder with the global governance body (provided that voice opportunities exist), and (iii) "influence" over the global governance body's policy choices and outcomes. We primarily examine and seek to explain -- from a multi- and interdisciplinary international law and international relations perspective -- to what extent and under what conditions the reforms have in fact resulted in increased voice engagement by previously disregarded stakeholders and to what extent the traditionally marginalized stakeholders have gained actual influence thanks to increased voice opportunities + engagement. We examine changes in global governance within and across two issues areas: finance and health, as two intrinsically important issue areas that have much in common, but also exhibit important differences, not least in how open or resistant global bodies in those issues areas have been to undertaking stakeholder participation reforms. In both finance and health, we examine the aftermath of institutional reforms in four kinds of global governance bodies: traditional inter-governmental (treaty-based) IOs; transgovernmental regulatory networks; multi-stakeholder partnerships; and private (non-governmental) standard-setting bodies. We focus on governmental stakeholders but also consider nongovernmental bodies, esp. from three large rising powers (Brazil, China, and India) -- in comparison with the same stakeholders from maximally comparable small and lower-income developing countries. To select those other countries, we make use of quantitative "matching" methods to choose each rising power's comparison cases for paired country case analyses. The book is co-edited by two international relations and two international law scholars. Contributors include scholars from across Europe and North America, as well as the Global South, trained in a broad range of disciplines (incl. political science, public policy studies, law, economics, sociology, etc.). Commentaries by global governance practitioners from international organizations, national governments, and civil society organziations complement the multi-method scholarly analyses. Please do not hesitate to contact me with comments or questions you might have (I serve as the corresponding editor for the volume). Best wishes, Tim Tim Büthe Professor and Chair for International Relations Hochschule für Politik at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) TUM School of Social Sciences & Technology and TUM School of Management Richard-Wagner-Straße 1 D-80333 München (Germany) Tel.: (+49) 89 / 90 77 93 - 100 Technology Policy Scholar Sanford School of Public Policy Duke University Durham, NC 27708-0204 (USA)