Building Global Democracy?

Jan Aart Scholte is Professorial Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation at the University of Warwick and Centennial Professor at LSE Global Governance in the London School of Economics and Political Science.

• Introduction Jan Aart Scholte; 1. Global governance, accountability and civil society Jan Aart Scholte; 2. Civil society and accountability of the United Nations Kerstin Martens; 3. The World Bank and democratic accountability: the role of civil society Alnoor Ebrahim and Steven Herz; 4. Civil society and IMF accountability Jan Aart Scholte; 5. Civil society and the WTO: contesting accountability Marc Williams; 6. Civil society and accountability in the Commonwealth Timothy M. Shaw and Pamela K. Mbabazi; 7. The organisation of the Islamic conference, accountability and civil society Saied Reza Ameli; 8. Civil society and patterns of accountability in the OECD Morten Ougaard; 9. Civil society and G8 accountability Peter I. Hajnal; 10. Structuring accountability: civil society and the Asia-Europe meeting Julie Gilson; 11. Civil society and accountability in the global governance of climate change Peter Newell; 12. Civil society and accountability promotion in the global fund Carolyn Long and Nata Duvvury; 13. Accountability in private global governance: ICANN and civil society Mawaki Chango; 14. Civil society and the World Fair Trade Organisation: developing responsive accountability Heidi Ullrich; Conclusion Jan Aart Scholte.

'That the relationship between institutions of global governance and civil society organisations is complex is well known; just how complex is clearly and elegantly brought out by the contributions to this marvellous volume.' Neera Chandhoke, University of Delhi