Evaluating Transnational NGOs

1. Introduction: Transnational NGOs and Legitimacy, Accountability, Representation
Jens Steffek, Kristina Hahn

Part I. NGO Legitimacy

2. The Debate on NGOs’ Legitimacy: What Can We Learn from the Classics?
Lutz Schrader, Tobias Denskus

3. Legitimating INGO Advocacy: The Case of Internal Democracies
Darren Halpin, Peter McLaverty

4. The Link between Standard-Setting NGO’s Legitimacy and Effectiveness: An Exploration of Social Mechanisms
Marianne Beisheim, Klaus Dingwerth

5. Assessing the Democratic Legitimacy of Transnational CSOs: Five Criteria
Jens Steffek, Ralf Bendrath, Simon Dalferth, Kristina Hahn, Martina Piewitt, Meike Rodekamp

Part II. NGO Accountability

6. These Pages Have Been Regulated for You: Issues Arising from the Governance of Markets by NGOs
Jem Bendell, Phyllida Jay, Mark Bendell

7. Accountability 2.0 — In Search for a New Approach to International Non-Governmental Organisations’ Accountability
Marek Havrda, Petr Kutílek

Part III. Representation through NGOs?

8. Representing the People? NGOs in International Negotiations
Tanja Brühl

9. Regulating NGO Participation in the EU; a De-Facto Accreditation System Built on ‘Representativeness’?
Justin Greenwood

10. NGOs’ Power of Advocacy: The Construction of Identities in UN Counter-Human Trafficking Policies
Kristina Hahn

Part IV. Conclusions

11. Evaluating NGOs: A Practitioner’s Perspective
Regula Heggli

12. Evaluating NGOs: Prospects for Academic Analysis
Jens Steffek, Kristina Hahn

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, International Relations, Political Sociology, Political Economy, Diplomacy, Political Communication, Globalization