The liberal battlefields of global business regulation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12866909 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kate Macdonald (0000-0003-2372-0775, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author), Terry Macdonald (0000-0002-9105-8886, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 303-324 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics & Global Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1654-6369 • E-ISSN: 1654-4951 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3402/egp.v3i4.5751 |
| OpenAlex | W2030666920 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
The global justice movement has often been associated with opposition to the broad programme of ‘neoliberalism’ and associated patterns of ‘corporate globalisation’, creating a widespread impression that this movement is opposed to liberalism more broadly conceived. Our goal in this article is to challenge this widespread view. By engaging in critical interpretive analysis of the contemporary ‘corporate accountability’ movement, we argue that the corporate accountability agenda is not opposed to the core values of a liberal project. Rather, it is seeking to reconfigure the design of liberal institutions of individual rights-protection, adjusting these for new material conditions associated with economic globalisation, under which powerful corporations alongside states now pose direct and significant threats to individual rights. This activist agenda is, therefore, much less radical in its challenge to the prevailing liberal global order than it may initially appear, since it functions to buttress rather than corrode many core normative commitments underpinning the liberal political project
Accountability · Global justice · Globalization · Law and economics · Liberalism · Neoliberalism (international relations · Normative · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Corporate Law and Human Rights · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Public Administration · Regulation and Compliance Studies
Interpretation and social criticism
Ideologies and Political Theory
Contesting Global Governance
Liberalism and the Art of Separation
The Third Force
The governance of global value chains
Non-Electoral Accountability in Global Politics
Democracy in a Pluralist Global Order
What's So Special about States? Liberal Legitimacy in a Globalising World
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2017 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |