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    Democracy in a Pluralist Global Order: Corporate Power and Stakeholder Representation
    Macdonald, K ; Macdonald, T (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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    China-Europe relations: The limits of strategic partnership
    Taneja, P (PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD, 2010-05-01)
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    Howard's way? Public opinion as an influence on Australia's engagement with Asia, 1996-2007
    McDougall, D ; Edney, K (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2010-01-01)
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    The Politics of Carbon Leakage and the Fairness of Border Measures
    Eckersley, R (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2010-01-01)
    The article critically examines domestic political concerns about the competitive disadvantages and possible carbon leakage arising from the introduction of domestic emission trading legislation and the fairness of applying carbon equalization measures at the border as a response to these concerns. I argue that the border adjustment measures proposed in the emissions trading bills that have been presented to Congress amount to an evasion of the U.S.'s leadership responsibilities under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). I also show how the “level commercial playing field” justification for border measures that has dominated U.S. domestic debates is narrow and lopsided because it focuses only on the competitive disadvantages and direct carbon leakage that may flow from climate regulation while ignoring general shifts in the production and consumption of emissions in the global economy, which have enabled the outsourcing of emission to developing countries. The UNFCC production-based method of emissions accounting enables Northern consumers to enjoy the benefit of cheaper imports from Southern producers and to attribute the emissions associated with this consumption to the South. I argue that it is possible to design fair border measures that address carbon leakage, are consistent with the leadership responsibilities of developed countries, do not penalize developing countries, and ensure that consumers take some responsibility for the emissions outsourced to developing countries.
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    East Asian regionalism and EU studies
    Murray, P (Informa UK Limited, 2010-12-01)
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    Asian perspectives on the European experience of regionalism
    Pettman, R (PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD, 2010-05-01)