Format:
1 online resource (248 pages)
ISBN:
9781139230902
Content:
This book evaluates the credibility of NGOs as they monitor and supplant the public and private sectors.
Content:
Cover -- The Credibility of Transnational NGOs -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1: Beyond virtue: evaluating and enhancing the credibility of non-governmental organizations -- NGOs, social change, and the need for credibility -- Sources of credibility -- Virtue: internal sources of credibility -- Beyond virtue: external conditions for credibility -- Common interests -- Costly effort -- Penalties for misrepresentation -- External verification -- Strategies for increasing credibility -- Promoting bonds around shared values -- Adopting autonomous governance structures -- Increasing transparency -- Professionalizing -- Integrating into the community of NGOs -- Expending costly effort in other fields -- Credible to whom? The multiple audiences for NGOs -- Targets -- Donors -- The public -- Other NGOs -- External verifiers -- Conclusion -- PART I: Monitoring and NGOs -- 2: Why believe international election monitors? -- Democracy promotion and the rise of election observation -- Credible monitors and election quality -- Monitoring the monitors and the diverse audience problem -- Credibility-enhancing variables -- Common interests -- Observable costly effort and the race to the top -- Penalties for misrepresentation -- External verification -- Strategies for increasing credibility -- Conclusion -- 3: Credible certification of child labor free production -- Introduction -- Credible certification: rugs versus soccer balls -- The rug and carpet industry: a relative success in certifying child labor free production -- Rugmark (Goodweave) -- The relative success of Rugmark and the implications for credibility -- Kaleen's efforts to monitor the use of child labor -- Soccer balls: a lack of credibility in the Foul Ball campaign and Sialkot Project.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107018044
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107018044
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=862409
