Global Governance And Public Accountability

by Held, David; Koenig-Archibugi, Mathias

• ISBN13: 9781405126786
• ISBN10: 1405126787
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-24
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume brings together prominent scholars from the fields of politics and international relations in order to explore questions of crucial importance to the creation of a viable and legitimate system of global governance. Questions addressed include: To what extent are those who shape global public policies accountable to those affected by their decisions? Are there accountability deficits? Do these deficits weaken the effectiveness and legitimacy of global policy making? And what can realistically be done to reduce such deficits? The book provides a comprehensive analysis of major arenas of global decision-making, and evaluates the democratic quality of current efforts to manage global issues. The international contributors include Thorsten Benner, David Held, Miles Kahler, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, Andrew Moravcsik, Patrizia Nanz, Wolfgang Reinicke, Thomas Risse, Jan Aart Scholte, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Jens Steffek, Jan Martin Witte, and Michael Zurn.

Author Biography

David Held is Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Democracy and the Global Order (Polity, 1995), Models of Democracy (Second Edition, Polity, 1996), and Global Covenant (Polity 2004); the co-author of Global Transformations (Polity, 1999) and Globalization/Anti-Globalization (Polity 2002); and the editor or co-editor of Prospects for Democracy (Polity, 1993), Cosmopolitan Democracy (Polity 1995), Re-imagining Political Community (Polity 1998) and Governing Globalization (Polity, 2002).

Mathias Koenig-Archibugi is Lecturer in Global Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the co-editor of Taming Globalization (Polity, 2003).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Introduction	1	(7)
David Held
Mathias Koenig-Archibugi
Defining Accountability Up: the Global Economic Multilaterals	8	(27)
Miles Kahler
Disaggregated Sovereignty: Towards the Public Accountability of Global Government Networks	35	(32)
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Multisectoral Networks in Global Governance: Towards a Pluralistic System of Accountability	67	(20)
Thorsten Benner
Wolfgang H. Reinicke
Jan Martin Witte
Civil Society and Democratically Accountable Global Governance	87	(23)
Jan Aart Scholte
Transnational Corporations and Public Accountability	110	(26)
Mathias Koenig-Archibugi
Global Governance and Legitimacy Problems	136	(28)
Michael Zurn
Global Governance and Communicative Action	164	(26)
Thomas Risse
Global Governance, Participation and the Public Sphere	190	(22)
Patrizia Nanz
Jens Steffek
Is there a `Democratic Deficit' in World Politics? A Framework for Analysis	212	(28)
Andrew Moravcsik
Democratic Accountability and Political Effectiveness from a Cosmopolitan Perspective	240	(28)
David Held
Index	268