SOCI 205 Lecture 10: chapter 59
8 Apr 2016
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Learning intentions: to examine the challenges to global governance and accountability. Globalization is a situation of governance without government. " power has shifted away from the nation-state"s ability to hold multinational corporations accountable to serve the interests of citizens within their boarders. Climate governance involves multistakeholder" hybrid partnerships, market" private partnerships, and elite" governmental partnerships. This global regime absorbs norms of the dominant states to ensure some measure of accountability and responsiveness, but it could be argued that global governance is administrative in character. While this promotes some order, highly fragmented horizontally organized regimes function with considerable autonomy outstripping global governmental ability to control and legitimate regulatory decisions. In the absence of a world government, climate governance has to rely almost entirely on non- hierarchical modes of steering globalization. Democratic deficit": governance without government faces legitimacy problems. Koppell (2005) identified five dimensions of accountability (transparency, liability, controllability, responsibility, and responsiveness).
