Democracy and Public-Private Partnerships in Global Governance

Part I. Public-Private Partnerships and Democracy

1. Introduction: Partnerships, Democracy, and Governance
Magdalena Bexell, Ulrika Mörth

2. Partnerships, Boundary Blurring, and Accountable Actorhood
Karin Svedberg Helgesson

3. Public-Private Partnerships and the Democratic Deficit: Is Performance-Based Legitimacy the Answer?
B. Guy Peters, Jon Pierre

4. Partnership Accountability Need Not Be Democratic Accountability
Julia Steets, Laura Blattner

Part II. Partnerships and Democratic Values in Global Governance

5. Public Markets and Private Democracy? The Renegotiation of Public and Private in Global Politics
Klaus Dingwerth, Tine Hanrieder

6. From Business UNusual to Business as Usual: The Future Legitimacy of Public-Private Partnerships with Multilateral Organizations
Benedicte Bull, Desmond McNeill

7. Transnational Standard-Setting Partnerships in the Field of Social Rights: The Interplay of Legitimacy, Institutional Design, and Process Management
Marianne Beisheim, Christopher Kaan

8. From Rhetoric to Practice: The Legitimacy of Global Public-Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development
Karin Bäckstrand

9. Coordinating Actors in the Fight against HIV/AIDS: From “Lead Agency” to Public-Private Partnerships
Christer Jönsson

10. UNDP, Business Partnerships, and the (UN)Democratic Governance of Development
Catia Gregoratti

Part III. Conclusions

11. Conclusions and Directions
Magdalena Bexell, Ulrika Mörth

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Political Theory, Political Philosophy, International Organization, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, International Relations, Sociology, general