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Global accountabilities : participation, pluralism, and public ethics /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ebrahim, Alnoor, Weisband, Edward, 1939-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.