The challenges of global business authority : democratic renewal, stalemate, or decay? / edited by Tony Porter and Karsten Ronit
- Published:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2010]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2010
- Physical Description:
- xi, 324 pages ; 24 cm
- Additional Creators:
- Porter, Tony, 1953-
Ronit, Karsten
- Contents:
- Globalization and business authority : new modes of democratic policymaking? / Tony Porter and Karsten Ronit -- Private authority certification regimes : a club theory perspective / Aseem Prakash and Matthew Potoski -- The democratic legitimacy of private authority in the food chain / Doris Fuchs and Agni Kalfagianni -- Power, interests, and the United Nations global compact / Jackie Smith -- Business authority and global financial governance : challenges to accountability and legitimacy / Geoffrey R.D. Underhill and Xiaoke Zhang -- Business and democracy? : pharmaceutical firms, intellectual property, and developing countries / Susan K. Sell -- The corruption of the public interest : intellectual property and the corporation as a rights-holding ''citizen'' / Christopher May -- Regulatory architectures for a global democracy : on democratic varieties of regulatory capitalism / David Levi-Faur -- Democratic accountability in global governance : business and civil society in multiple arenas / Aynsley Kellow and Hannah Murphy -- Sovereign debt restructuring : alliances crossing the financial services industry, states, and nongovernmental organizations / Kathryn C. Lavelle -- The complexities of global business authority and the promise of democracy / Tony Porter and Karsten Ronit.
- Summary:
- "BUSINESS IS BEING GLOBALIZED WITH AN IMMENSE SPEED, BUT ARE DEMOCRATIC PRACTICES AND DECISION-MAKING STRUCTURES KEEPING PACE?" "Contrary to those who see democracy as irrelevant or impossible at the global level, The Challenges of Global Business Authority analyzes three dimensions of democracyparticipation, accountability, and transparencyin many transnational mechanisms that seek to align global business interests with the public interest. Looking beyond these mechanisms, this volume seeks to explore the fundamental issues affecting the relationship between democracy and global business authority, such as the structural power of business itself, and the contestations over the boundary between public and private. The essays in this volume provide concrete ways that business can be made more publicly accountable to allow democratic practices to take on a more permanent role in the global business world."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781438431574 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1438431570 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781438431567 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1438431562 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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