Description
Book Synopsis* An exploration of questions of crucial importance to the creation of a legitimate system of global governance. * Written by a group of prominent international scholars and experts of global governance. * Provides a comprehensive analysis of major arenas of global decision--making.
Trade Review"This excellent volume raises serious analytical and normative questions of public accountability challenges posed by innovations in global governance, and it provides sophisticated, non-ideological answers. It marks an important contribution to the debate."
John Gerard Ruggie, Harvard University
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors.
1. Introduction: David Held and Mathias Koenig-Archibugi.
2. Defining Accountability Up: the Global Economic Multilaterals: Miles Kahler.
3. Disaggregated Sovereignty: Towards the Public Accountability of Global Government Networks: Anne-Marie Slaughter.
4. Multisectoral Networks in Global Governance: Towards a Pluralistic System of Accountability: Thorsten Benner, Wolfgang H. Reinicke and Jan Martin Witte.
5. Civil Society and Democratically Accountable Global Governance: Jan Aart Scholte.
6. Transnational Corporations and Public Accountability: Mathias Koenig-Archibugi.
7. Global Governance and Legitimacy Problems: Michael Zürn.
8. Global Governance and Communicative Action: Thomas Risse.
9. Global Governance, Participation and the Public Sphere: Patrizia Nanz and Jens Steffek.
10. Is there a 'Democratic Deficit' in World Politics? A Framework for Analysis: Andrew Moravcsik.
11. Democratic Accountability and Political Effectiveness from a Cosmopolitan Perspective: David Held.
Index.
