This GID project aims to generate proposals for enhancing both the effectiveness and the accountability of global governance in five key domains of global public policy:
(1) The promotion of international financial stability
(2) The creation and enforcement of rules in international trade
(3) The fight against global infectious diseases
(4) The elimination of the exploitation of child labour
(5) The provision of international security
In each of these policy domains, the project will compare established and new forms of global governance along the dimensions of effectiveness and accountability with a view to exploring possible ways to enhance democratic governance capacity.
More specifically, the project will:
(a) provide a comprehensive framework for the classification and analysis of governance structures beyond the state, which will allow a systematic understanding of public, private, and mixed arrangements
(b) map the different forms of governance that operate in the fields of global health policy, security, financial regulation, global labour standard setting, and rule creation and enforcement in international trade
(c) provide the conceptual tools for the analysis of accountability in the context of international governance systems
(d) track the existing channels of accountability in selected governance initiatives, and evaluate the forms and quality of participation, transparency, and responsiveness in different institutional settings and with regard to the various governmental and social actors that have a stake in policy-making
(e) establish how the form and intensity of accountability relationships affects the effectiveness of policy outcomes
(f) suggest principles of institutional design for enhancing the capacity of the global policy process to deliver legitimate governance.
GID project group
David Held
David Held |is Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science, London School of Economics and Political Science. He is author of Democracy and the Global Order: from the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance, Models of Democracy, Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture (co-author), and Governing Globalisation: Power, Authority and Global Governance (co-editor).
Anthony McGrew
Anthony McGrew is Professor of International Relations at Southampton University. He is co-author of Global Politics and Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture and co-editor of Governing Globalisation: Power, Authority and Global Governance.
Mathias Koenig-Archibugi
Mathias Koenig-Archibugi is a Lecturer in Global Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is co-editor of Taming Globalization: Frontiers of Governance and Global Governance and Public Accountability.
Paola Robotti
Paola Robotti is a Research Officer at the University of Southampton. She completed a Ph.D at the University of Warwick on the politics of financial markets regulation and the case of hedge funds.