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Dr Kavi Abraham's Outputs (6)

Norm dynamics in a post-hegemonic world: multistakeholder global governance and the end of liberal international order (2023)
Journal Article
Taggart, J., & Abraham, K. J. (2024). Norm dynamics in a post-hegemonic world: multistakeholder global governance and the end of liberal international order. Review of International Political Economy, 31(1), 354-381. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2023.2213441

This article examines the emergence, spread, and potential future of ‘multistakeholderism’ in global governance: A global norm specifying that global public problems ought to be addressed by all actors who affect or are affected by them. While some s... Read More about Norm dynamics in a post-hegemonic world: multistakeholder global governance and the end of liberal international order.

Modeling Institutional Change and Subject-Production: The World Bank's Turn to Stakeholder Participation (2022)
Journal Article
Abraham, K. J. (2022). Modeling Institutional Change and Subject-Production: The World Bank's Turn to Stakeholder Participation. International Studies Quarterly, 66(3), Article sqac032. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqac032

There is a robust literature on the World Bank's shift toward participatory development in the 1990s but scant attention to the specific way in which participation was defined in terms of “stakeholder” inclusion. Rather than the poor, NGOs, or some o... Read More about Modeling Institutional Change and Subject-Production: The World Bank's Turn to Stakeholder Participation.

Midcentury Modern: The Emergence of Stakeholders in Democratic Practice (2021)
Journal Article
Abraham, K. J. (2022). Midcentury Modern: The Emergence of Stakeholders in Democratic Practice. American Political Science Review, 116(2), 631-644. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003055421001106

Since the 1960s, “the stakeholder,” or affected party, has emerged as a novel democratic subject whose participation in varied institutional sites—from universities to government agencies, corporate boardrooms to international organizations—is seen a... Read More about Midcentury Modern: The Emergence of Stakeholders in Democratic Practice.