Accountability Across Borders

Author : Xóchitl Bada,Shannon Gleeson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477318386

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Accountability Across Borders by Xóchitl Bada,Shannon Gleeson Pdf

Collecting the diverse perspectives of scholars, labor organizers, and human-rights advocates, Accountability across Borders is the first edited collection that connects studies of immigrant integration in host countries to accounts of transnational migrant advocacy efforts, including case studies from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Covering the role of federal, state, and local governments in both countries of origin and destinations, as well as nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), these essays range from reflections on labor solidarity among members of the United Food and Commercial Workers in Toronto to explorations of indigenous students from the Maya diaspora living in San Francisco. Case studies in Mexico also discuss the enforcement of the citizenship rights of Mexican American children and the struggle to affirm the human rights of Central American migrants in transit. As policies regarding immigration, citizenship, and enforcement are reaching a flashpoint in North America, this volume provides key insights into the new dynamics of migrant civil society as well as the scope and limitations of directives from governmental agencies.

Author : Michael Mason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136553073

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The New Accountability by Michael Mason Pdf

The growth of pollution that crosses national borders represents a significant threat to human health and ecological sustainability. Various international agreements exist between countries to reduce risks to their populations, however there is often a mismatch between national territories of state responsibility and transboundary hazards. All too often, state priorities do not correspond to the priorities of the people affected by pollution, who often have little recourse against major polluters, particularly transnational corporations operating across national boundaries. Drawing on case studies, The New Accountability provides a fresh understanding of democratic accountability for transboundary and global harm and argues that environmental responsibility should be established in open public discussions about harm and risk. Most critically it makes the case that, regardless of nationality, affected parties should be able to demand that polluters and harm producers be held accountable for their actions and if necessary provide reparations.

Author : Bård-Anders Andreassen,Võ Khánh Vinh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Corporate governance
ISBN : 1780683766

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Duties Across Borders by Bård-Anders Andreassen,Võ Khánh Vinh Pdf

This volume argues that normative and legal developments to regulate and govern the behaviour of transnational businesses represent a new frontier in the struggle for human rights.

Author : Pierre Salmon (Professor of economics)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : 0190499192

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Yardstick Competition Among Governments by Pierre Salmon (Professor of economics) Pdf

When the existence of several jurisdictions (countries, regions, or cities) is acknowledged, the possibility arises that citizens compare what obtains in their own jurisdiction to what obtains in others. These cross-jurisdiction or yardstick comparisons can have an effect on citizens' support of incumbents (yardstick voting) and, as a consequence, an effect on governments' decisions, making them interact (political yardstick competition proper). Both effects have been mainly studied in the context of federalism and decentralization, with the policy variables concerned being mostly fiscal (taxes and expenditures). In that relatively simple setting, the two effects have been confirmed empirically. This text aims to document and analyze that achievement and also to extend the analysis to broader settings in terms of jurisdictions and policy domains.

Author : Raphael Bossong,Helena Carrapico
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319175607

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EU Borders and Shifting Internal Security by Raphael Bossong,Helena Carrapico Pdf

This edited volume analyzes recent key developments in EU border management. In light of the refugee crises in the Mediterranean and the responses on the part of EU member states, this volume presents an in-depth reflection on European border practices and their political, social and economic consequences. Approaching borders as concepts in flux, the authors identify three main trends: the rise of security technologies such as the EUROSUR system, the continued externalization of EU security governance such as border mission training in third states, and the unfolding dynamics of accountability. The contributions show that internal security cooperation in Europe is far from consolidated, since both political oversight mechanisms and the definition of borders remain in flux. This edited volume makes a timely and interdisciplinary contribution to the ongoing academic and political debate on the future of open borders and legitimate security governance in Europe. It offers a valuable resource for scholars in the fields of international security and migration studies, as well as for practitioners dealing with border management mechanisms.

Author : Sean Tait,Elrena Van der Spuy
Publisher : African Minds
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Police
ISBN : 9781920355944

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Cooperation and Accountability in the Cross-border Policing of Southern Africa by Sean Tait,Elrena Van der Spuy Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139472456

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Justice Across Borders by Jeffrey Davis Pdf

This book studies the struggle to enforce international human rights law in federal courts. In 1980, a federal appeals court ruled that a Paraguayan family could sue a Paraguayan official under the Alien Tort Statute – a dormant provision of the 1789 Judiciary Act – for torture committed in Paraguay. Since then, courts have been wrestling with this step toward a universal approach to human rights law. Davis examines attempts by human rights groups to use the law to enforce human rights norms. He explains the separation of powers issues arising when victims sue the United States or when the United States intervenes to urge dismissal of a claim and analyses the controversies arising from attempts to hold foreign nations, foreign officials, and corporations liable under international human rights law. While Davis's analysis is driven by social science methods, its foundation is the dramatic human story from which these cases arise.

Author : Liesbeth Enneking,Ivo Giesen,Anne-Jetske Schaap,Cedric Ryngaert,Francois Kristen,Lucas Roorda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351127141

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Accountability, International Business Operations and the Law by Liesbeth Enneking,Ivo Giesen,Anne-Jetske Schaap,Cedric Ryngaert,Francois Kristen,Lucas Roorda Pdf

A consensus has emerged that corporations have societal and environmental responsibilities when operating transnationally. However, how exactly corporations can be held legally accountable for their transgressions, if at all, is less clear. This volume inquires how regulatory tools stemming from international law, public law, and private law may or may not be used for transnational corporate accountability purposes. Attention is devoted to applicable standards of liability, institutional and jurisdictional issues, and practical challenges, with a focus on ways to improve the existing legal status quo. In addition, there is consideration of the extent to which non-legal regulatory instruments may complement or provide more viable alternatives to these legal mechanisms. The book combines legaldoctrinal approaches with comparative, interdisciplinary, and policy insights with the dual aim of furthering the legal scholarly debate on these issues and enabling higher quality decision-making by policymakers seeking to implement regulatory measures that enhance corporate accountability in this context. Through its study of contemporary developments in legislation and case law, it provides a timely and important contribution to the scholarly and sociopolitical debate in the fastevolving field of international corporate social responsibility and accountability.

Author : Craig T. Borowiak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199778492

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Accountability and Democracy by Craig T. Borowiak Pdf

Few political concepts are as emblematic of our era as democratic accountability. In a time of political and economic turmoil, in which global forces have destabilized conventional relations of political authority, democratic accountability has come to symbolize both what is absent and what is desired in our polity. Situated at the intersection of democratic theory and international studies, Accountability and Democracy provides an in-depth critical analysis of accountability. Through an engagement with several key democratic traditions, both ancient and modern, the book paints a rich picture of democratic accountability as a multi-dimensional concept harboring competing imperatives and diverse instantiations. Contrary to dominant views that emphasize discipline and control, Craig Borowiak offers an original and refreshing view of democratic accountability as a source of mutuality, participation, and political transformation. He both creatively engages conventional electoral models of accountability and moves beyond them by situating democratic accountability within more deliberative, participatory and agonistic contexts. Provocatively, the book also challenges deep-seated understandings of democratic accountability as an expression of popular sovereignty. Borowiak instead argues that accountable governance is incompatible with all claims to ultimate authority, regardless of whether they refer to the demos, the state, or cosmopolitan public law. Rather than conceiving of democratic accountability as a way to legitimize a secure and sovereign political order, the book contends that destabilization and democratic insurgence are indispensable and often neglected facets of democratic accountability practices. For contemporary scholars, practitioners and activists grappling with the challenge of building democratic legitimacy into world politics, the book urges greater reflexivity and nuance in how democratic accountability is evoked and implemented. It offers insights into the myriad ways democratic accountability has been thwarted in the past, while also cultivating a sense of expanded possibility for how it might be conceived for the present.

Author : Charlotte E. Blattner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190948313

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Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders by Charlotte E. Blattner Pdf

based on author's thesis (doctoral - Universitèat Basel, 2016) issued under title: The extraterritorial protection of animals: admissibility and possibilities of the application of national animal welfare standards to animals in foreign countries.

Author : Carla Ilten,Inga Kroener,Daniel Neyland,Hector Postigo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137032225

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Managing Privacy through Accountability by Carla Ilten,Inga Kroener,Daniel Neyland,Hector Postigo Pdf

Draws together contributions from leading figures in the field of surveillance to engage in the discussion of the emergence of accountability as a means to manage threats to privacy. The first of its kind to enrich the debate about accountability and privacy by drawing together perspectives from experienced privacy researchers and policy makers.

Author : Ismail Hussein Amzat,Nena P. Valdez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811041518

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Teacher Empowerment Toward Professional Development and Practices by Ismail Hussein Amzat,Nena P. Valdez Pdf

This book gathers a range of contributions from researchers and practitioners across borders with an emphasis on theoretical arguments and empirical data concerning teacher empowerment. It propels readers to explore powerful teaching practices that can further advance the profession as a continuing priority in the system when appropriately utilized. Further, it strives to capture teachers’ readiness to improve their professional skills and responsive practices as a form of accountability for their teaching and students’ learning, two aspects that are increasingly being judged by various stakeholders. The book argues that teachers’ autonomous participation and engagement in relevant decision-making activities and equitable access to continuing professional development opportunities are and should remain major priorities.

Author : Susanne Jonas,Suzanne Dod Thomas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0842027750

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Immigration by Susanne Jonas,Suzanne Dod Thomas Pdf

Intended to fill a gap in the literature on immigration, this work provides a variety of perspectives among those who agree that immigrants have rights, but may differ in how to assert those rights. The contributions challenge the historic and ongoing struggle of migrants rights.

Author : Lisa Jordan,Peter van Tuijl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136560422

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NGO Accountability by Lisa Jordan,Peter van Tuijl Pdf

As the fastest growing segment of civil society, as well as featuring prominently in the global political arena, NGOs are under fire for being 'unaccountable'. But who do NGOs actually represent? Who should they be accountable to and how? This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the issues and politics of NGO accountability across all sectors and internationally. It offers an assessment of the key technical tools available including legal accountability, certification and donor-based accountability regimes, and questions whether these are appropriate and viable options or attempts to 'roll-back' NGOs to a more one-dimensional function as organizers of national and global charity. Input and case studies are provided from NGOs such as ActionAid, and from every part of the globe including China, Indonesia and Uganda. In the spirit of moving towards greater accountability the book looks in detail at innovations that have developed from within NGOs and offers new approaches and flexible frameworks that enable accountability to become a reality for all parties worldwide.

Author : Susan Park,Teresa Kramarz
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262351881

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Global Environmental Governance and the Accountability Trap by Susan Park,Teresa Kramarz Pdf

An examination of whether accountability mechanisms in global environmental governance that focus on monitoring and enforcement necessarily lead to better governance and better environmental outcomes. The rapid development of global environmental governance has been accompanied by questions of accountability. Efforts to address what has been called “a culture of unaccountability” include greater transparency, public justification for governance decisions, and the establishment of monitoring and enforcement procedures. And yet, as this volume shows, these can lead to an “accountability trap”—a focus on accountability measures rather than improved environmental outcomes. Through analyses and case studies, the contributors consider how accountability is being used within global environmental governance and if the proliferation of accountability tools enables governance to better address global environmental deterioration. Examining public, private, voluntary, and hybrid types of global environmental governance, the volume shows that the different governance goals of the various actors shape the accompanying accountability processes. These goals—from serving constituents to reaping economic benefits—determine to whom and for what the actors must account. After laying out a theoretical framework for its analyses, the book addresses governance in the key areas of climate change, biodiversity, fisheries, and trade and global value chains. The contributors find that normative biases shape accountability processes, and they explore the potential of feedback mechanisms between institutions and accountability rules for enabling better governance and better environmental outcomes. Contributors Graeme Auld, Harro van Asselt, Cristina Balboa, Lieke Brouwer, Lorraine Elliott, Lars H. Gulbrandsen, Aarti Gupta, Teresa Kramarz, Susan Park, Philipp Pattberg, William H. Schaedla, Hamish van der Ven, Oscar Widerberg