ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the course and key causes of Group of Seven/Eight (G7/8), Group of Twenty (G20) and Brazil, Russia, India and China compliance. Additional accountability measures are the development of official level or ministerial bodies inside the G7/8, G20 or BRICS, or through reference to internal and external multilateral organizations in the collective documents released at the summits. The chapter examines the number, composition and range of commitments the summit leaders make and how they craft them in particular ways. It also explores how well each of the plurilateral summit institutions's (PSI) members complies with the commitments during the subsequent year. The chapter identifies the causes of this compliance, with a focus on a central accountability measure—the compliance catalysts contained within each commitment issued in the summit leaders' name. It concludes by assessing whether the three PSIs are cooperative, convergent or competitive and recommends how their compliance could be improved.
