02222nam a22003378a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002400224082001400248245011300262264005200375300005900427336002600486337002600512338003600538500007300574520103900647650002001686650001801706650003101724700004701755776003501802856004701837CR9780511921476UkCbUP20171019114426.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||100927s2011||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9780511921476 (ebook)  z9780521192194 (hardback)  z9780521140553 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aJC423 b.B8646 201100a321.822200aBuilding Global Democracy? :bCivil Society and Accountable Global Governance /cEdited by Jan Aart Scholte. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2011.  a1 online resource (424 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aThe scale, effectiveness and legitimacy of global governance lag far behind the world's needs. This path-breaking book examines how far civil society involvement provides an answer to these problems. Does civil society make global governance more democratic? Have citizen action groups raised the accountability of global bodies that deal with challenges such as climate change, financial crises, conflict, disease and inequality? What circumstances have promoted (or blocked) civil society efforts to make global governance institutions more democratically accountable? What could improve these outcomes in the future? The authors base their argument on studies of thirteen global institutions, including the UN, G8, WTO, ICANN and IMF. Specialists from around the world critically assess what has and has not worked in efforts to make global bodies answer to publics as well as states. Combining intellectual depth and political relevance, Building Global Democracy? will appeal to students, researchers, activists and policymakers. 0aDemocratization 0aCivil society 0aInternational organization1 aScholte, Jan Aart,eeditor of compilation.08iPrint version: z978052119219440uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511921476