Global accountability communities: NGO self-regulation in the humanitarian sector
| Autor: | Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Sociology and Political Science
Mutual engagement Process (engineering) 05 social sciences Public administration Social learning 050601 international relations 0506 political science Political science Process tracing Political Science and International Relations Accountability Realm 050602 political science & public administration Socioeconomics Social identity theory |
| Zdroj: | Review of International Studies. 42:724-747 |
| ISSN: | 1469-9044 0260-2105 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s0260210515000601 |
| Popis: | How do humanitarian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) define and institutionalise global accountability standards? This article process-traces the case of the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership-International (HAP-I), a voluntary, self-regulatory collective accountability initiative, to investigate the processes through which NGOs define collective rules, standards, and practices for accountability. This article shows the limitations of traditional representative and principal-agent models of NGO accountability when applied to the global inter-organisational realm and argues that mutual accountability better conceptualises these relationships. In this important case, the article finds that transnational coordination of NGO accountability practices results from social learning that generates a global accountability community (GAC) constituted by mutual engagement, joint enterprise, and a shared repertoire of practices. Data from the process tracing shows a collaborative not hierarchical or coercive relationship between NGOs and states, where salient donors changed their understandings and practices of accountability during the process of developing the HAP-I benchmarks. Thus, GACs both regulate the behaviour of members and constitute their social identities, interests, and practices. |
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