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Do Non-State Actors Enhance the Accountability of Global Governance? – The case of WTO Dispute Settlement

Journal Global Policy and Governance

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Title Do Non-State Actors Enhance the Accountability of Global Governance? – The case of WTO Dispute Settlement
 
Creator Strange, Michael
 
Subject Accountability; Non-state actors; World Trade Organization; WTO Dispute Settlement; Global governance
 
Description The World Trade Organization’s dispute settlement body provides the teeth of the global trade regime – empowering it with substantial means to adjudicate in disagreements between Member-states over the implementation of WTO law.The WTO’s teeth have, however, also helped make the organisation controversial as part of a general critique from civil society groups concerned that global trade governance has become unaccountable to the societies it affects. Could the growing presence of NGOs and other non-state actors in WTO dispute settlement – empirically identified within a growing body of literature – solve this apparent accountability deficit?Drawing upon existing findings and new research, the article argues that non-state actors have significant consequences for the accountability of WTO dispute settlement, but to whom the system is accountable and whether these consequences are good or bad is not pre-determined. Rather, as the burgeoning literature on accountability shows, the term itself is multi-faceted. Only by engaging with specific cases, as is done here in the case of WTO dispute settlement, can research properly draw out the shape of accountability in global governance.
 
Publisher Journal Global Policy and Governance
 
Date 2015-01-13
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://transitionacademiapress.org/jgpg/article/view/64
10.14666/2194-7740-3-1-007
 
Source Journal Global Policy and Governance; Vol 3, No 1 (2014); 95-112
2194-7759
2194-7740
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://transitionacademiapress.org/jgpg/article/view/64/42
 
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