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Global Governance and Public Accountability

Held, David / Koenig-Archibugi, Mathias (Herausgeber)

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1. Auflage Dezember 2004
300 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-4051-2678-6
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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 an effective, accountable
and legitimate system of global governance.

* * 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.

* Evaluates the democratic quality of current efforts to manage
global issues.

Notes 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.
"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
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).

D. Held, London School of Economic and Political Science, UK; M. Koenig-Archibugi, London School of Economic and Political Science, UK