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ItemNo Preview AvailableDemocracy in a Pluralist Global Order: Corporate Power and Stakeholder Representation(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2010-01-01)Whereas representative democratic mechanisms have generally been built around preexisting institutional structures of sovereign states, the global political domain lacks any firmly constitutionalized or sovereign structures that could constitute an analogous institutional backbone within a democratic global order. Instead, global public power can best be characterized as “pluralist” in structure. Some recent commentators have argued that if global democratization is to succeed at all, it must proceed along a trajectory beginning with the construction of global sovereign institutions and culminating in the establishment of representative institutions to control them. This paper challenges this view of the preconditions for global democratization, arguing that democratization can indeed proceed at a global level in the absence of sovereign structures of public power. In order to gain firmer traction on these questions, analysis focuses on the prospects for democratic control of corporate power, as constituted and exercised in one particular institutional context: sectoral supply chain systems of production and trade. It is argued that global democratization cannot be straightforwardly achieved simply by replicating familiar representative democratic institutions (based on constitutional separations of powers and electoral control) on a global scale. Rather, it is necessary to explore alternative institutional means for establishing representative democratic institutions at the global level within the present pluralist structure of global power.
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ItemChina-Europe relations: The limits of strategic partnership(PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD, 2010-05-01)
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ItemIran's nuclear programme and the west(Informa UK Limited, 2006-05)
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ItemInsecurity in Oceania: An Australian perspective(Informa UK Limited, 2007-08-01)
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ItemThey know it when they see it: The UK gender recognition act 2004(SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2008-05-01)This article is a critical feminist analysis of the UK Gender Recognition Act of 2004. This Act is radical in enabling transgenders to gain certificates recognising their new ‘acquired gender’ without undergoing hormonal or surgical treatment. The Act has considerable implications for marriage, for motherhood and fatherhood, for women who are the partners of men or women who ‘transition’ and for ‘women-only’ spaces. It is based on confusing and contradictory notions of the difference between sex and gender. As such it should be of great interest to feminists but there has been a dearth of feminist commentary. The understandings of sex and gender and of the importance of the Act will be explored here through analysis of the parliamentary debates and public responses.
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ItemBalancing Democracy and Globalisation: The Role of the State in Poverty Alleviation in India(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2009-01-01)
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ItemThe contradictions of regionalism in North America(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2009-02)Abstract Students of regionalism almost reflexively include North America in their lists of regions in contemporary global politics. Inevitably students of regionalism point to the integrative agreements between the countries of North America: the two free trade agreements that transformed the continental economy beginning in the late 1980s – the Canada–US Free Trade Agreement that came into force on 1 January 1989, and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the United States, Mexico, and Canada, that came into force on 1 January 1994 – and the Secutity and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP), launched in March 2005. These agreements, it is implied, are just like the integrative agreements that forge the bonds of regionalism elsewhere in the world. We argue that this is a profound misreading, not only of the two free trade agreements of the late 1980s and early 1990s and the SPP mechanism of 2005, but also of the political and economic implications of those agreements. While these integrative agreements have created considerable regionalisation in North America, there has been little of the regionalism evident in other parts of the world. We examine the contradictions of North America integration in order to explain why North Americans have been so open to regionalisation but so resistant to regionalism.
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ItemRecursive governance: Contemporary political communication and public policy(TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC, 2007-01-01)
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ItemAfter 1989, Who Are the Czechs?(Informa UK Limited, 2006-12)