Global accountabilities : participation, pluralism, and public ethics / edited by Alnoor Ebrahim and Edward Weisband.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ebrahim, Alnoor, editor.

Weisband, Edward, 1939- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Non-governmental organizations--Evaluation.

International business enterprises--Evaluation.

Performance standards.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 352 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-18262-X

1-281-08515-4

9786611085155

1-139-13304-7

0-511-34204-7

0-511-34151-2

0-511-34093-1

0-511-49090-9

0-511-34257-8

OCLC:

476123887