ISBN:
9789400722545
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XX, 180p. 3 illus, digital)
Series Statement:
Issues in Business Ethics 36
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Buchausg. u.d.T.
Keywords:
Philosophy (General)
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Ethics
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Political science Philosophy
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Economics
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Political science
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Philosophy
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Philosophy (General)
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Ethics
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Political science Philosophy
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Economics
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Political science
Abstract:
The interaction between corporations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has become an important topic in the debate about corporate social responsibility (CSR). Yet, unlike the vast majority of academic work on this topic, this book explicitly focuses on clarifying the role of NGOs, not of corporations, in this context. Based on the notion of NGOs as political actors it argues that NGOs suffer from a multiple legitimacy deficit: they are representatives of civil society without being elected; the legitimacy of the claims they raise is often controversial; and there are often doubts rega
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Summary; Introduction; The Problem; How Do Corporations Choose Their Partner NGO?; Outline and Methodology; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Part I Getting to the Core; 1 NGOs as Representatives of Public Claims; Defining NGOs; Support from Stakeholder Theory; The Triple Legitimacy Deficit of NGOs; Addressees of NGO Legitimization; A Remark on the Role of NGOs as Experts; Locating NGOs in the CSR Debate; Instrumental CSR; Political CSR; Part II Actors: Civil Society and NGOs in the Postnational Constellation
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2 The Postnational Constellation: A Broad Conception of DemocracyExtending the Sphere of Political Action; The Democratic Roles of Civil Society and NGOs in the Postnational Constellation; Three Contexts for NGOs as Representatives of Public Claims; Interaction with Official Political or Economic Institutions; Semi-institutionalized Contexts (''Hybrid Model''); Interaction Outside Institutionalized Contexts (''Wild Model''); Implications of the Degree of Institutionalization for the Political Conceptualization of NGO Action; On the Use of the Term Partner NGO
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3 Normative Orientation from Political TheoryLiberalism; Deliberative Democracy; Justifying the Selection of Theories: Why Not Communitarianism and Republicanism?; 4 Civil Society: Coming to Grips with an Elusive Term; Historical Uses of the Term "Civil Society"; Facing the Challenge: Assigning Civil Society a Constitutive Role; The Liberal View: Civil Society as a Residual Category?; The Deliberative View: Identifying the Constitutive Core of Civil Society; 5 Insights from Part II; Part III Institutions and Processes: A Normative Framework for Legitimate Partner NGOs; 6 The Public Sphere
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Importance of the Public SphereLiberal Versus Deliberative Views of the Relation Between the Public Sphere and Civil Society; The Liberal View: Confining the Public Sphere to Constitutional Questions; The Liberal Conceptualization of the Public Sphere in the Postnational Constellation; The Deliberative View: The Public Sphere as a Site for Critical Reflection; The Deliberative Conceptualization of the Public Sphere in the Postnational Constellation; 7 Public Reason; The Importance of "Public Reason" in Light of the "Fact of Reasonable Pluralism"; The Content of Public Reason
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Implications of Restricting the Content of Public ReasonImplication 1: Divided Selves; Implication 2: Oppression; Implication 3: No Democratic Structures; Criticism of the Liberal Constraints; 8 The Political Process; The Liberal View of the Political Process: Aggregating Preferences and Voting; Is Rawls a Deliberative Democrat?; The Deliberative View of the Political Process: A Non-voting-centric Conception of Democracy; Central Elements of the Deliberative Political Process; Two-Track Model of Deliberative Democracy; Critical Strand of Deliberative Democracy; 9 Legitimacy
Description / Table of Contents:
Liberal Principle of Legitimacy
Note:
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DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-2254-5
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