Private organizations play a growing role in governing global issues alongside traditional public actors such as states, international organizations, and subnational governments. What do we know about how private authority and public policy interact? What are the implications of answering this question for understanding support for, and effects of, policy development generally? The purpose of this article is to reflect on these questions by introducing, and reviewing, a special issue that challenges explicit claims, and implicit methodologies, that treat private and public governance realms as distinct and/or static. We do so by advancing a theoretical and conceptual framework with which to explore how the contributions to this special issue enhance an understanding about governance interactions across a range of empirical, sectoral, and regional domains. We specifically introduce the concept of governance spheres to capture the proliferation of issue domains denoted by highly fluid interactions across public and private governance boundaries.

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全球背景下的私人权威和公共政策互动：解决问题的治理领域

私营组织与传统的公共行为者（如国家、国际组织和国家以下各级政府）一起，在治理全球问题方面发挥着越来越大的作用。我们对私人权威和公共政策如何相互作用了解多少？回答这个问题对理解政策制定的支持和影响有什么影响？本文的目的是通过介绍和审查一个特殊问题来反思这些问题，该问题挑战明确的主张和隐含的方法，将私人和公共治理领域视为不同和/或静态的。我们通过推进一个理论和概念框架来实现这一目标，以探索对这一特殊问题的贡献如何增强对一系列经验、部门、和区域域。我们专门介绍了这个概念治理领域，以捕捉由跨越公共和私人治理边界的高度流动的互动所表示的问题领域的扩散。