Susan Park is Professor of Global Governance in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Environmental Recourse at the Multilateral Development Banks (2020) and Global Environmental Governance and the Accountability Trap (2019, with Teresa Kramarz), among others. She is a Senior Hans Fischer Fellow at the Technical University of Munich (2019-2022), a Senior Research Fellow of the ESG, an affiliated Faculty member of the Environmental Governance Lab at the University of Toronto, and an external associate at Warwick University.

• Chapter 1: The Good Hegemon: Demanding Accountability as Justice for the Multilateral Development Banks


• The Argument: the US, Accountability as Justice, and the MDBs


• The Research Approach


• Outline of the Book


• Chapter 2: US Norm Entrepreneurship and the MDBs


• Introduction


• The US as a Norm Entrepreneur


• Three Strategies for Change


• MDB Responses to Change


• Conclusion


• Chapter 3: US Hegemony for What? From Accountability as Control to Accountability as Justice for the MDBs


• Introduction


• The US in the MDBs


• From Accountability as Control to Accountability as Justice


• Constituting Accountability as Justice for the World Bank


• Accountability as Justice for the Inter-American Development Bank


• Accountability as Justice for the Asian Development Bank


• Accountability as Justice for the World Bank Group


• Accountability as Justice for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development


• Accountability as Justice at the African Development Bank


• Conclusion


• Chapter 4: Bank Resistance to Institutionalising Accountability as Justice


• Introduction


• Rigid but Functioning: The World Bank's Inspection Panel


• Turbulent Non-Growth of the Inter-American Development Bank's Accountability Mechanism


• Ruptures and Change: the Asian Development Bank's Accountability Mechanism


• From Strength to Strength for the World Bank Group's Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman


• Making Accountability as Justice Work at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development


• The Slow Emergence of the African Development Bank's Accountability Mechanism


• Conclusion


• Chapter 5: Accountability as Justice in Practice: Challenging the Banks?


• Introduction


• The Accountability as Justice Norm in Practice


• Conclusion


• Chapter 6: Changing the Banks and Strengthening Accountability as Justice?


• Strengthening the Accountability as Justice Norm


• Does Accountability as Justice Influence Bank Behavior?


• Conclusion


• Chapter 7: Norm Diffusion within the MDBs and Insights beyond the Banks


• Bibliography

The Good Hegemon analyzes how and why the norm of "accountability justice"--the idea that when development IGOs were responsible for negative outcomes in developing countries, they owed restitution--for international organizations emerged and spread. Tracing its development after the introduction of the Work Bank Inspection Panel in 1993, Susan Park explains the norm's creation and how it functions and investigates whether it holds the Multilateral Development Banks to account.