Democracy and Public-Private Partnerships in Global Governance

1. Front Matter

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2. Public-Private Partnerships and Democracy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction: Partnerships, Democracy, and Governance

      • Magdalena Bexell, Ulrika Mörth

      Pages 3-23

   3. Partnerships, Boundary Blurring, and Accountable Actorhood

      • Karin Svedberg Helgesson

      Pages 24-40

   4. Public-Private Partnerships and the Democratic Deficit: Is Performance-Based Legitimacy the Answer?

      • B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre

      Pages 41-54

   5. Partnership Accountability Need Not Be Democratic Accountability

      • Julia Steets, Laura Blattner

      Pages 55-78

3. Partnerships and Democratic Values in Global Governance

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Public Markets and Private Democracy? The Renegotiation of Public and Private in Global Politics

      • Klaus Dingwerth, Tine Hanrieder

      Pages 81-102

   3. From Business UNusual to Business as Usual: The Future Legitimacy of Public-Private Partnerships with Multilateral Organizations

      • Benedicte Bull, Desmond McNeill

      Pages 103-121

   4. Transnational Standard-Setting Partnerships in the Field of Social Rights: The Interplay of Legitimacy, Institutional Design, and Process Management

      • Marianne Beisheim, Christopher Kaan

      Pages 122-144

   5. From Rhetoric to Practice: The Legitimacy of Global Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development

      • Karin Bäckstrand

      Pages 145-166

   6. Coordinating Actors in the Fight against HIV/AIDS: From “Lead Agency” to Public-Private Partnerships

      • Christer Jönsson

      Pages 167-189

   7. UNDP, Business Partnerships, and the (UN)Democratic Governance of Development

      • Catia Gregoratti

      Pages 190-210

4. Conclusions

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   2. Conclusions and Directions

      • Magdalena Bexell, Ulrika Mörth

      Pages 213-226

5. Back Matter

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There has been rapid proliferation of public–private partnerships in areas of human rights, environmental protection and development in global governance. This book demonstrates how different forms of partnership legitimacy and accountability interact, and pinpoints trade-offs between democratic values in partnership operations.

• democracy
• Design
• environment
• environmental protection
• global governance
• Governance
• human rights
• Institution
• Nation
• organization
• sustainable development
• Transnational

• Lund University, Sweden

  Magdalena Bexell

• Stockholm University, Sweden

  Ulrika Mörth

MARIANNE BEISHEIM is Assistant Professor at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. She is Co-Director of the DFG-funded SFB700-project 'Transnational Public Private Partnerships for Environment, Health, and Social Rights: Determinants of Success' LAURA BLATTNER studies Comparative Political Science and Economics at the University of Oxford, UK BENEDICTE BULL is Associate Professor at the Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) at the University of Oslo, Norway KARIN BÄCKSTRAND is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden KLAUS DINGWERTH is Assistant Professor for International Relations at the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen, Germany, and a Research Fellow of the international Global Governance Project (glogov.org) CATIA GREGORATTI participates in the Transdemos research program at Lund University, Sweden TINE HANRIEDER is Research and Teaching Associate at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institut for Political Science, University of Munich, Germany CHRISTER JÖNSSON is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden CHRISTOPHER KAAN is Research Associate at the DFG-funded SFB700-project 'Transnational Public Private Partnerships for Environment, Health, and Social Rights: Determinants of Success' DESMOND MCNEILL is Professor and former Director at SUM (Centre for Development and the Environment), University of Oslo, Norway B. GUY PETERS is MauriceFalk Professor of Government at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, and Distinguished Professor of Comparative Governance at the Zeppelin University, Germany JON PIERRE is Research Professor in Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, USA JULIA STEETS is Associate Director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPI), Berlin, Germany KARIN SVEDBERG HELGESSON is a Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Management and Organization at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden

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