Democracy and Public-private Partnerships in Global Governance

There has been rapid proliferation of public-private partnerships in areas of human rights, environmental protection and development in global governance. This book demonstrates how different forms of partnership legitimacy and accountability interact, and pinpoints trade-offs between democratic values in partnership operations.

MAGDALENA BEXELL is Researcher and Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden. She is also Pro Futura Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala. She has published articles and book chapters on human rights and international relations, corporate social responsibility and global governance.

ULRIKA MÖRTH is Professor of Political Science at Stockholm University, Sweden and Chair of SCORE (Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research), Sweden. She has published several books and articles on European politics, particularly with an organizational focus, including Organizing European Cooperation: The Case of Armaments and Soft Law in Governance and Regulation. Her recent work has concentrated on European public-private collaborations.