Global Governance and NGO Participation : Shaping the information society in the United Nations.
This book assesses the structural power mechanisms that shape global ICT governance and analyses the impact of NGOs on communication rights, intellectual property rights, financing, and Internet governance.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Series: | Rethinking globalizations.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Global Governance and NGO Participation; Copyright Page; Contents; Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: the ambiguity of NGO participation in global governance; NGOs as bearers of hope in global governance; Downsides of participation; Focus on constraints; Focus on structures; The WSIS and beyond: illuminating limits of NGO influence; Outline of The book; 2. Power and influence in global governance; Power in Current NGO research; Structural power and NGO influence; Influence of NGOs; 3. A structurationist framework of analysis; What agency? What structures?
- Causality in structurationThe analytical nexus between power and influence; 4. The information society: issues and practices; Introducing the information society as a global policy issue; The World Summit on the Information Society context; 5. Global ICT governance at the WSIS: NGO influence; Communication rights; Intellectual property rights; Internet governance; Financing; Limits of NGO influence; 6. Structural power mechanisms at the WSIS; Agenda-setting reversed: how central NGO claims were disregarded; The downsides of informal participation: decreasing influence.
- Inclusion to the point of exclusion: partial influenceStructural power processes shaping NGO influence; Conclusions; The ambiguous relation between participation and influence; Communicative capabilities in a structural context; Opening the black box 'NGOs'; Policy implications of the ambiguity of participation for global ICT governance; Notes; Bibliography; Index.