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Global Governance and Public Accountability
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Global Governance and Public Accountability

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This volume brings together prominent scholars from the fields of politics and international relations in order to explore questions of crucial importance to the creation of a viable and legitimate system of global governance.
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ISBN/GTIN978-1-4051-2678-6
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
FormatTrade paperback (US)
PublisherWiley
Publishing date01/02/2005
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 152 mm, Height 229 mm, Thickness 16 mm
Weight438 g
Article no.12083781
CatalogsLibri
Data source no.A3765245
Product groupBU730
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David Held is Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Democracy and the Global Order (Polity, 1995), Models of Democracy (Second Edition, Polity, 1996), and Global Covenant (Polity 2004); the co-author of Global Transformations (Polity, 1999) and Globalization/Anti-Globalization (Polity 2002); and the editor or co-editor of Prospects for Democracy (Polity, 1993), Cosmopolitan Democracy (Polity 1995), Re-imagining Political Community (Polity 1998) and Governing Globalization (Polity, 2002).

Mathias Koenig-Archibugi is Lecturer in Global Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the co-editor of Taming Globalization (Polity, 2003).

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