caa a22 4500 467928363 CHVBK 20180406152936.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11158-006-9008-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11158-006-9008-5 Erman Eva Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden aut Rethinking Accountability in the Context of Human Rights [Elektronische Daten] [Eva Erman] Within liberal democratic theory, ‘democratic accountability' denotes an aggregative method for linking political decisions to citizens' preferences through representative institutions. Could such a notion be transferred to the global context of human rights? Various obstacles seem to block such a transfer: there are no ‘world citizens' as such; many people in need of human rights are not citizens of constitutional democratic states; and the aggregative methods that are supposed to sustain the link are often used in favour of nation-state strategic action rather than human rights. So what could accountability mean in relation to human rights? This article argues that discourse theory offers resources for approaching these problems and for rethinking a normative notion of accountability in relation to human rights. It is suggested that accountability should link political decisions to universal agreements through global rights institutions and that the link should be sustained by deliberative rather than aggregative procedures. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 deliberation nationallicence democratic accountability nationallicence discourse theory nationallicence global institutions nationallicence human rights nationallicence Jürgen Habermas nationallicence Res Publica Kluwer Academic Publishers 12/3(2006-09-01), 249-275 1356-4765 12:3<249 2006 12 11158 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-006-9008-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-006-9008-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Erman Eva Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Res Publica Kluwer Academic Publishers 12/3(2006-09-01), 249-275 1356-4765 12:3<249 2006 12 11158 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer