Challenges of Global Business Authority Democratic Renewal, Stalemate, or Decay?
Produktdetaljer
An astute assessment of democratic principles and decision-making structures in the global business world.
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 democracy- participation, accountability, and transparency-in 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.
List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Globalization and Business Authority: New Modes of Democratic Policymaking?
Tony Porter and Karsten Ronit
SECTION 1: The Firm Level: Individual Political Actions and Voluntary Arrangements
2. Private Authority Certification Regimes: A Club Theory Perspective
Aseem Prakash and Matthew Potoski
3. The Democratic Legitimacy of Private Authority in the Food Chain
Doris Fuchs and Agni Kalfagianni
4. Power, Interests, and the United Nations Global Compact
Jackie Smith
SECTION 2: The Industry Level: The Organizing Capacities of Industries and their Regulation
5. Business Authority and Global Financial Governance: Challenges to Accountability and Legitimacy
Geoffrey R. D. Underhill and Xiaoke Zhang
6. Business and Democracy? Pharmaceutical Firms, Intellectual Property, and Developing Countries
Susan K. Sell
7. The Corruption of the Public Interest: Intellectual Property and the Corporation as a Rights-Holding "Citizen"
Christopher May
SECTION 3: The General Level: Trans-industry Business Action and Policy Processes
8. Regulatory Architectures for a Global Democracy: On Democratic Varieties of Regulatory Capitalism
David Levi-Faur
9. Democratic Accountability in Global Governance: Business and Civil Society in Multiple Arenas
Aynsley Kellow and Hannah Murphy
10. Sovereign Debt Restructuring: Alliances Crossing the Financial Services Industry, States, and Nongovernmental Organizations
Kathryn C. Lavelle
11. The Complexities of Global Business Authority and the Promise of Democracy
Tony Porter and Karsten Ronit
List of Contributors
Index