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The article proposes a new way of analysing the potential of civil society organisations (CSOs) to democratise global governance. The aim is to explore the possibility for CSOs to function as a form of counter-democratic force, using Pierre Rosanvallon's concept to help us understand how the monitoring activities of CSOs may restrain the power of international organisations and make them more responsible.
To examine if and how a specific CSO might serve as a democratising force in global governance, we suggest that the actors and their activities should be scrutinised according to an analytical framework centred on the concepts of power-resources, ideational foundations and activities. Empirically, we investigate three cases of CSOs that perform monitoring activities in a global governance context: the Corporate Europe Observatory, the NGO forum on the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and NGO Monitor.
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