Global Accountabilities Participation Pluralism and Public Ethics 1st Edition by Alnoor Ebrahim, Edward Weisband ISBN 0521700116 978-0521700115

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ISBN 10: 0521700116

ISBN 13: 978-0521700115

Author: Alnoor Ebrahim, 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.

Table of contents: 

Introduction: forging global accountabilities
Edward Weisband and Alnoor Ebrahim

Part I – Public accountability: participatory spheres from global to local

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 and Rob Jenkins

Part II – Experiments in forging NGO accountability: mutuality and context

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

Part III – Reflective accountability: new directions for participatory practices

A rights-based approach to accountability
Lisa Jordan

Evaluation and accountability in emergency relief
Coralie Bryant

Towards a reflective accountability in NGOs
Alnoor Ebrahim

Part IV – Global accountability frameworks and corporate social responsibility

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

Index

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