Alnoor Ebrahim / Edward Weisband (eds.)

Global Accountabilities

Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics
Herausgeber: Ebrahim, Alnoor; Weisband, Edward

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9780521700115
• ISBN-10: 0521700116
• Artikelnr.: 22758204

Autorenporträt

Alnoor Ebrahim is a Visiting Associate Professor in the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and the Wyss Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Business School. He is also an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech.
Edward Weisband holds the Diggs Endowed Chair Professorship in the Social Sciences in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 1. Forging global accountabilities Edward Weisband and Alnoor
Ebrahim; Part I. Public Accountability: Participatory Spheres from Global
to Local: 2. Multilateralism and building stronger international
institutions Ngaire Woods; 3. Global financial governance and the problem
of accountability: the role of the public sphere Randall D. Germain; 4.
Citizen activism and public accountability: lessons from case studies in
India Anne Marie Goetz and Rob Jenkins; Part II. Experiments in Forging NGO
Accountability: Mutuality and Context: 5. Multiparty social action and
mutual accountability L. David Brown; 6. Not accountable to anyone?
Collective action and the role of NGOs in the campaign to ban 'blood
diamonds' Ian Smillie; 7. Bringing in society, culture and politics: values
and accountability in a Bangladeshi NGO David Lewis; Part III. Reflective
Accountability: New Directions for Participatory Practice: 8. A
rights-based approach to accountability Lisa Jordan; 9. Evaluation and
accountability in emergency relief Coralie Bryant; 10. Towards a reflective
accountability in NGOs Alnoor Ebrahim; Part IV. Global Accountability
Frameworks and Corporate Social Responsibility: 11. Financial actors and
instruments in the construction of global corporate social responsibility
Michael R. MacLeod; 12. Public accountability within transnational supply
chains: a global agenda for empowering southern workers? Kate Macdonald;
13. Tripartite multilateralism: why corporate social responsibility is not
accountability Edward Weisband; Conclusion: 14. Prolegomena to a postmodern
public ethics: images of accountability in global frames Edward Weisband.