HANS AGNÉ is Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden, and Associate Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International AffairsJENS BARTELSON is Professor of Political Science at Lund University, SwedenÅSA CASULA VIFELL is a researcher at the Institute for Contemporary History at Södertörn University, Sweden and at the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University, SwedenJESSICA F. GREEN is a Doctoral Candidate at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, USASARA KALM is Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Political Science at Lund University, SwedenANDREA LIESE is Professor of International Organizations and Public Policy at the University of Potsdam, GermanySOFIA NÄSSTRÖM is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University, SwedenJENS STEFFEK is Professor of Transnational Governance at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany and Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence 'The Formation of Normative Orders,' hosted by the University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany

List of Figures and Tables Preface Notes on the Contributors Transnational Actor Participation in International Institutions: Where, Why, and with What Consequences?; J.Tallberg & C.Jönsson Capturing the Transnational; C.Jönsson Transnational Access to International Institutions: Three Approaches; J.Tallberg Explaining Patterns of Transnational Participation: The Role of Policy Fields; J.Steffek Explaining Varying Degrees of Openness in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); A.Liese WTO and the Environmental Movement: On the Path to Participatory Governance?; Å.Casula Vifell Limits to Transnational Participation: The Global Governance of Migration; S.Kalm Private Authority on the Rise: A Century of Delegation in Multilateral Environmental Treaties; J.F.Green Does Global Democracy Matter? Hypotheses on Famine and War; H.Agné Democracy Counts: Problems of Equality in Global Democracy; S.Näsström Beyond Democratic Legitimacy: Global Governance and the Promotion of Liberty; J.Bartelson Transnational Access: Findings and Future Research; C.Jönsson & J.Tallberg Index

The nature of global governance is changing, as are the standards by which we judge its legitimacy. We are witnessing a gradual and partial shift from inter-state co-operation to more complex forms of governance, involving participation by transnational actors, such as NGOs, party associations, philanthropic foundations and corporations.