Building Global Democracy
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Building Global Democracy
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Author : Jan Aart Scholte
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-07
Building Global Democracy written by Jan Aart Scholte and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-07 with Political Science categories.
The 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.
Building Global Democracy
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Author : Jan Aart Scholte
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Building Global Democracy written by Jan Aart Scholte and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Civil society categories.
"The 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"--
The Rise Of Global Civil Society
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Author : Don Eberly
language : en
Publisher: Encounter Books
Release Date : 2008-03-24
The Rise Of Global Civil Society written by Don Eberly and has been published by Encounter Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-24 with Political Science categories.
Global news is generally bad news. On the surface, the story is about war, poverty, ethnic and sectarian strife. Democracy movements advanced by the U.S. government seem to be stalled or even reversed. Yet just below the surface, more hopeful trends are brewing. A new global awareness of the people at "the bottom of the pyramid" is summoning forth an unprecedented response to human need and suffering. It involves a shift from vertical to horizontal power that official aid agencies are only beginning to comprehend. Whereas twenty-five years ago, government aid accounted for 70 percent of all American outflows, today 85 percent of all outflows of resources come from private individuals, businesses, religious congregations, universities, and immigrant communities. If aid policy in the twentieth century relied on top-down bureaucracy dominated by policy specialists and elites, the twenty-first century is shaping up as an era in which citizens, social entrepreneurs, and volunteers link up to solve problems. U.S. military and economic power are basic components of America's presence in the world; but in an environment of rampant anti-Americanism, it is compassion that is America's most consequential export. Civil society, once the distinctive characteristic of American democracy, is now advancing across the globe, carrying with it new forms of philanthropy, citizenship, and volunteerism. Tens of thousands of voluntary associations are prying open closed societies from within, solving problems in new ways, and forming the seedbed for a long-term cultivation of democratic norms. Building Nations from the Bottom Up: The Global Rise of Democratic Society presents a sweeping overview of the forces now shaping the global debate, including citizen-led development projects, poverty-reduction strategies that substitute opportunity for charity, and electronically linked movements to combat corruption and autocratic rule.
Democracy In Development
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Author : International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Democracy In Development written by International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Democracy categories.
Democracy In Development
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Democracy In Development written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
Improving Democracy Assistance
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Author : National Research Council
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2008-06-26
Improving Democracy Assistance written by National Research Council and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-26 with Political Science categories.
Over the past 25 years, the United States has made support for the spread of democracy to other nations an increasingly important element of its national security policy. These efforts have created a growing demand to find the most effective means to assist in building and strengthening democratic governance under varied conditions. Since 1990, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has supported democracy and governance (DG) programs in approximately 120 countries and territories, spending an estimated total of $8.47 billion (in constant 2000 U.S. dollars) between 1990 and 2005. Despite these substantial expenditures, our understanding of the actual impacts of USAID DG assistance on progress toward democracy remains limited-and is the subject of much current debate in the policy and scholarly communities. This book, by the National Research Council, provides a roadmap to enable USAID and its partners to assess what works and what does not, both retrospectively and in the future through improved monitoring and evaluation methods and rebuilding USAID's internal capacity to build, absorb, and act on improved knowledge.
Building Democratic Institutions
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Author : G. Shabbir Cheema
language : en
Publisher: Kumarian Press
Release Date : 2005
Building Democratic Institutions written by G. Shabbir Cheema and has been published by Kumarian Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Political Science categories.
Annotation Bridges the gap between theoretical literature and the tools and practices needed to strengthen or rebuild democratic institutions and reform governance systems. Through case studies and examples of good practices of governance, Cheema assesses the conditions that make democracy work.
Elect The Ambassador
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Author : Duncan Colquhoun-Kerr
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Elect The Ambassador written by Duncan Colquhoun-Kerr and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Political Science categories.
Argues for the democratisation of international government. Rejects the idea that globalisation can or should be wound back and proposes a ten-point plan to transform the way we respond to it. Identifies the problem of crucial decision-making being carried out by unelected bodies like the IMF and World Bank at the expense of democracy and accountablity. Includes tables and figures, notes, bibliography and index. Author is a federal Labor MP and Opposition spokesperson on justice and customs, population, immigration, multicultural affairs, the environment, and the arts. He served as Attorney General and minister for Justice in the Keating Labor government.
The United Nations And Civil Society
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Author : Nora McKeon
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2009-10-15
The United Nations And Civil Society written by Nora McKeon and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-15 with Political Science categories.
The UN is able to recognize key global challenges, but beset by difficulties in trying to resolve them. In this, it represents the current global political balance, but is also the only international institution that could move it forward. Civil society can be a catalyst for this kind of change. In this book, Nora McKeon provides a comprehensive analysis of UN engagement with civil society. The book pays particular attention to food and agriculture, which now lie at the heart of global governance issues. McKeon shows that politically meaningful space for civil society can be introduced into UN policy dialogue. The United Nations and Civil Society also makes the case that it is only by engaging with organizations which legitimately speak for the 'poor' targeted by the Millennium Development Goals that the UN can promote equitable, sustainable development and build global democracy from the ground up. This book has strong ramifications for global governance, civil society and the contemporary debate over the future of food.
Building A World Community
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Author : Jacques Baudot
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2015-09-14
Building A World Community written by Jacques Baudot and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-14 with History categories.
Building a World Community: Globalisation and the Common Good