Global Citizenship in Action?

Civil society and Accountable Global Governance

This book offers chapter abstracts from the book edited by Jan Aart Scholte. The publication is based on the Building Global Democracy pilot project, Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance. The publication will be available in 2009, published by Cambridge University Press.

Introduction

The book opens by laying out a crucial problem of contemporary society and politics: (a) the world has become more global; (b) this more global world requires regulatory frameworks, significant parts of which must themselves be global in scope; (c) to be effective and legitimate, this global governance must be accountable; and (d) current global governance is on the whole severely lacking in accountability. This collective study explores one response to this problem, asking in what ways and to what extents engagement by civil society associations of global governance institutions has furthered the accountability of those agencies to their constituents. The introduction elaborates upon this question, summarises the general approach taken in the book, and anticipates some of the broad findings that run across the various case studies.

Links:
[1] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/content/chapter-1-global-governance-accountability-and-civil-society
[2] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/content/chapter-2-civil-society-and-accountability-united-nations-system
[3] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/content/chapter-3-world-bank-and-democratic-accountability-role-civil-society
[4] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/content/chapter-4-civil-society-and-imf-accountability
[5] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/content/chapter-5-wto-civil-society-and-accountability
[6] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/content/chapter-6-civil-society-and-accountability-commonwealth
[7] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/content/chapter-7-civil-society-and-accountability-organisation-islamic-conference-which-good-govern
[8] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/content/chapter-8-civil-society-and-patterns-accountability-oecd
[9] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/content/chapter-9-civil-society-and-g8-accountability
[10] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/content/chapter-10-structuring-accountability-asia-europe-meeting
[11] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/content/chapter-11-civil-society-and-accountability-politics-climate-change
[12] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/content/chapter-12-contested-accountability-civil-society-and-international-fair-trade-association
[13] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/content/chapter-13-accountability-through-civil-society-internet-corporation-assigned-names-and-numb
[14] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/content/chapter-14-civil-society-and-accountability-promotion-global-fund
[15] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/content/conclusion
[16] http://www.buildingglobaldemocracy.org/content/summary-description