Global Accountabilities Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics Ebrahim

Global AccountabilitiesParticipation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics\nAuthor(s): Alnoor Ebrahim, Edward Weisband\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521876476, 978-0521876476\nSynopsis\nAccountability is seen as an essential feature of governments, businesses and NGOs. This volume treats it as a socially constructed means of control that can be used by the weak as well as the powerful. It contributes analytical depth to the diverse debates on accountability in modern organizations by exploring its nature, forms and impacts in civil society organizations, public and inter-governmental agencies and private corporations. The contributors draw from a range of disciplines to demonstrate the inadequacy of modern rationalist prescriptions for establishing and monitoring accountability standards, arguing that accountability frameworks attached to principal-agent logics and applied universally across culture.