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Government Networks
Government institutions -- courts, administrative agencies, heads of state, and even legislators -- are networking with one another across borders. The functions of these networks vary, from simple information-sharing to policy coordination to the formulation and adoption of common principles. Taken together, however, they offer an alternative vision of global governance: horizontal rather than vertical, decentralizedrather than centralized, composed of national officials rather than a supranational bureaucracy. Of particular interest is their reliance on and use of information technology, as an enabling infrastructure, as a form of soft power, and as a tool for "exporting" or "borrowing" government functions.
