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Global accountabilities : = participation, pluralism, and public ethics /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Global accountabilities :/ edited by Alnoor Ebrahim and Edward Weisband.
Reminder of title:	participation, pluralism, and public ethics /
other author:	Weisband, Edward,
Description:	1 online resource (xiii, 352 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Performance standards. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511490903
ISBN:	9780511490903 (ebook)

Global accountabilities : = participation, pluralism, and public ethics /
Global accountabilities :participation, pluralism, and public ethics /edited by Alnoor Ebrahim and Edward Weisband. - 1 online resource (xiii, 352 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Introduction: forging global accountabilities / Edward Weisband, Alnoor Ebrahim -- Multilateralism and building stronger international institutions / Ngaire Woods -- Global financial governance and the problem of accountability: the role of the public sphere / Randall D. Germain -- Citizen activism and public accountability: lessons from case studies in India / Anne Marie Goetz, Rob Jenkins -- Multiparty social action and mutual accountability / L. David Brown -- Not accountable to anyone? Collective action and the role of NGOs in the campaign to ban "blood diamonds" / Ian Smillie -- Bringing in society, culture, and politics: values and accountability in a Bangladeshi NGO / David Lewis -- A rights-based approach to accountability / Lisa Jordan -- Evaluation and accountability in emergency relief / Coralie Bryant -- Towards a reflective accountability in NGOs / Alnoor Ebrahim -- Financial actors and instruments in the construction of global corporate social responsibility / Michael R. MacLeod -- Public accountability within transnational supply chains: a global agenda for empowering southern workers? / Kate Macdonald -- Tripartite multilateralism: why corporate social responsibility is not accountability / Edward Weisband -- Conclusion: Prolegomena to a postmodern public ethics: images of accountability in global frames / Edward Weisband.

Accountability is seen as an essential feature of governments, businesses and NGOs. This volume treats it as a socially constructed means of control that can be used by the weak as well as the powerful. It contributes analytical depth to the diverse debates on accountability in modern organizations by exploring its nature, forms and impacts in civil society organizations, public and inter-governmental agencies and private corporations. The contributors draw from a range of disciplines to demonstrate the inadequacy of modern rationalist prescriptions for establishing and monitoring accountability standards, arguing that accountability frameworks attached to principal-agent logics and applied universally across cultures typically fail to achieve their objectives. By examining a diverse range of empirical examples and case studies, this book underscores the importance of grounding accountability procedures and standards in the divergent cultural, social and political settings in which they operate.

ISBN: 9780511490903 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

559683
Performance standards.

LC Class. No.: JZ4841 / .G56 2007

Dewey Class. No.: 338.8/8

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