Ratifying conventions adopted by the International Labor Organization creates legal obligations to improve labor standards in the domestic economy. Why and when do states choose to ratify them? Two influential theoretical approaches lead to the expectation that states are influenced by the...

Jurisdictional approaches (JAs) have emerged over the past decade as a significant mode of sustainable commodity governance, particularly in tropical forest countries. JAs are characterized by multistakeholder initiatives with substantial government involvement, aiming to integrate...

The Fair Labor Association (FLA) is a US-based voluntary governance arrangement in which a number of high profile apparel and sportswear companies work together with universities and NGOs to promote compliance with core international labour standards within their supply chains. Since its...

The Fair Labor Association (FLA) is a US-based voluntary governance arrangement in which a number of high profile apparel and sportswear companies work together with universities and NGOs to promote compliance with core international labour standards within their supply chains. Since its...

As the contributions to this collection highlight, the capacities and limits of formal mechanisms of accountability to promote their intended normative purposes depend in important ways on the political and institutional contexts in which accountability mechanisms operate

This article challenges the widespread view that democratic accountability is unattainable in global politics because of the impracticality of establishing global elections. Instead, it argues that global democratic accountability can potentially be achieved by instituting non-electoral...

The RSPO is a voluntary, multi-stakeholder organization, the main focus of which is standard setting and certification of sustainable palm oil production. the RSPO includes representatives from seven sectors of the palm oil industry: oil palm growers, palm oil processors or traders, consumer...

Amidst intensified competition for land available to private investors in sectors such as mining, agribusiness and forestry, disputes over land between transnational investors and local communities are emerging in many parts of the world as an increasingly visible form of transnational conflict....

Amidst intensified competition for land available to private investors in mining, industrial and commercial agriculture sectors, contests between transnational companies and communities over land are emerging in many countries as a significant domain of social conflict. The power imbalances...

Many approaches to addressing labour injustices — shortfalls from minimally decent wages and working conditions — focus on how governments should orient themselves toward other states in which such phenomena take place, or to the firms that are involved with such practices. But of course the...