| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Title Information: |
implementation and the wto |
| Author: |
Brown-ShafiiSusan, 1959- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Palgrave Connect (Online service) |
| Place of Publication: |
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK New York |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
2011 |
| Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
International political economy series |
| Subject: |
Government purchasing - Corrupt practices. - |
| Subject: |
Civil service ethics. - |
| Subject: |
World Trade Organization - Rules and practice. - |
| Subject: |
POLITICAL SCIENCE - International Relations - |
| Subject: |
POLITICAL SCIENCE - Government - |
| Subject: |
POLITICAL SCIENCE - Globalization. - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230309111An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| Notes: |
Includes index. |
| Summary: |
Can a WTO Agreement be used to promote good governance, development and accountability? Anchored in the text of the 1994 WTO Government Procurement Agreement and the liberal trading system of which it is a part, Brown-Shafii looks for answers across a disparate institutional and intellectual terrain, taking interdisciplinary insights from law and development studies. She discovers that while the three concepts may be intertwined, the GPA and other regimes designed to promote transparency are principally about accountability. Taking into account nearly 30 years' worth of efforts to interest the developing countries in membership, she identifies additional relationships between transparency, the rule of law, popular sovereignty and accountability. Many of these alliances could be better safeguarded by national governments through membership in the GPA, albeit with a critical caveat. The author concludes that countries in the process of accession must be allowed to determine their timetables for coverage on the basis of their own social and developmental priorities. Moreover, to protect the potential developmental benefits of membership, consideration should also be given to the expansion of the rights of private actors affected by domestic administrative decisions. |
| ISBN: |
9780230309111electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230309119electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1283124890 |
| ISBN: |
9781283124898 |
| Content Note: |
Cover; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Acronyms; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Academic contribution and structure of the book; The MDGs, procurement and the aid effectiveness agenda; A gambol through the theory; contextualizing the case study; Legalization, comparative politics and the GPA 16; Developing countries' role in the multilateral trading system; Governance and alternative perspectives on authority; Part I Political Foundations; 1 Short History and Objectives of the 1994 WTO Agreement 2 The GPA's International Administrative Disciplines: Distilling the Underlying Political StructuresPart II Moving the International Regulatory Process Ahead: Accountability in Converging and Competing Systems of Authority; 3 Addressing the WTO Membership Challenge; 4 Towards an International Regulatory Framework?; Part III Pulling It all Together: How Far Might the GPA Procedures Go?; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Agreement on Government Procurement; Appendix 2: Revision of the Agreement on Government Procurement as at 8 December 2006 Appendix 3: Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business TransactionsNotes; References; Index |