Guilt by association: The link between states’ influence and the legitimacy of intergovernmental organizations

Johnson, Tana

doi:10.1007/s11558-010-9088-z

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“…Second, our study sheds light on potential differences in the authority-legitimacy link as formed by different types of citizens. Since individual-level characteristics are likely to matter for citizens' legitimacy perceptions (see Hooghe and Marks 2005;Edwards 2009;Hooghe and Marks 2009;Johnson 2011; Ecker-Erhardt 2012; Voeten 2013; Chalmers and Dellmuth 2015; Dellmuth and Tallberg 2015;Schlipphak 2015), the effect of authority on legitimacy perceptions should also vary by individuals' characteristics (Zürn and Tallberg, this volume). Building on the aforementioned "incapable citizens" argument, we theorize that the authority of a global governance institution should affect citizens' legitimacy perceptions more directly and to a larger extent if citizens are more cognitively mobilized (i.e.…”

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Does international pooling of authority affect the perceived legitimacy of global governance?

2018

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Recent instances of political backlash against global governance efforts as well as conventional wisdom suggest that there is a link between shifting authority from the domestic to the global level, on the one hand, and the legitimacy of global governance institutions as perceived by citizens and other stakeholders on the other. We thus investigate whether and how increasing the authority of a global governance institution affects citizens' legitimacy perceptions, using a population-based survey experiment in Germany and the United States (N=1600 each). The empirical focus is on climate change, a costly and paradigmatic global governance effort. The results show that certain shifts of political authority, such as changes to majority decision making at the international level and automatic implementation of international decisions domestically, do not significantly affect "average" citizens' legitimacy perceptions of global governance institutions. This result is not due to citizens' incapacity to understand the implications of increasing authority, namely, that increasing authority results in a loss of control over climate policy in Germany and the United States. Rather, legitimacy perceptions appear to be shaped by citizens' perceptions of procedural and performance quality of such efforts as well as by their level of cognitive mobilization, namely their interest in international politics. In brief, we find that citizens relate perceived procedural and performance quality of global governance with their evaluation of its legitimacy, but that subtle shifts of authority from the domestic to the global level do not per se affect citizens' legitimacy perceptions.

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Does international pooling of authority affect the perceived legitimacy of global governance?

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“…A similar approach was adopted by studies assessing the legitimacy of individual IOs like the European Union (EU; Majone ; Moravcsik ), the World Trade Organization (Elsig ), or the International Monetary Fund (Torres ). However, what is largely missing are empirical analyses that examine how states or citizens perceive the legitimacy of IOs (the exceptions are Caldeira and Gibson ; Johnson ; Nullmeier, Bigeon, Nonhoff, Schmidtke, and Schneider ). This holds in particular for research on the UN Security Council.…”

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The Legitimacy of the UN Security Council: Evidence from Recent General Assembly Debates

Binder

Heupel

2014

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Existing research on the legitimacy of the UN Security Council is conceptual or theoretical, for the most part, as scholars tend to make legitimacy assessments with reference to objective standards. Whether UN member states perceive the Security Council as legitimate or illegitimate has yet to be investigated systematically; nor do we know whether states care primarily about the Council's compliance with its legal mandate, its procedures, or its effectiveness. To address this gap, our article analyzes evaluative statements made by states in UN General Assembly debates on the Security Council, for the period 1991–2009. In making such statements, states confer legitimacy on the Council or withhold legitimacy from it. We conclude the following: First, the Security Council suffers from a legitimacy deficit because negative evaluations of the Council by UN member states far outweigh positive ones. Nevertheless, the Council does not find itself in an intractable legitimacy crisis because it still enjoys a rudimentary degree of legitimacy. Second, the Council's legitimacy deficit results primarily from states' concerns regarding the body's procedural shortcomings. Misgivings as regards shortcomings in performance rank second. Whether or not the Council complies with its legal mandate has failed to attract much attention at all.

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“…While some studies have looked into the feelings of citizens about regional integration in Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia and Latin America (Schlipphak, ; Jhee, ), others have turned to global or regional public opinion vis‐à‐vis international organisations such as the UN (Dellmuth and Tallberg, ; Johnson, ), international financial institutions (Edwards, ), or the EU (Chaban et al ., ; Chaban, Elgström and Holland, ; Lucarelli, ; Schlipphak, ). In general, previous research has found the theoretical approaches and empirical findings derived from the American or European contexts to be more or less generalisable to other locations across the globe.…”

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“…Additionally, Johnson () has shown that citizens' attitudes toward a state that is perceived to crucially influence a particular IO shapes citizens' feelings toward that IO as well. Descriptive research has demonstrated that Western organisations in general are perceived by Arab citizens as being under American rule (WPOP, ).…”

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The Desire for Sovereignty – An Explanation of EU Attitudes in the Arab World

Isani

Schlipphak

2016

J of Common Market Studies

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A growing body of survey research shows that the European Union (EU) has a relatively benign image around the world, except among Arab populations. What informs Arab citizens' sceptical attitudes toward the European Union (EU)? Combining literature on Arab public opinion and perceptions of the EU, we argue that Arab citizens' feelings about the EU are influenced most prominently by their desire for sovereignty. Moreover, traditional utilitarian and cue-taking mechanisms should also impact Arab EU attitudes. We empirically test our argument using data from the third wave of the Arab Barometer (AB). Our findings confirm that Arab citizens' EU views seem to be informed by their desire for sovereignty, as well as economic considerations and trust in domestic elites. Having provided evidence on Arab opinions about the EU, we discuss relevant theoretical and methodological directions for future research.

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Guilt by association: The link between states’ influence and the legitimacy of intergovernmental organizations

Abstract: Intergovernmental organization, Influence, Legitimacy, Guilt by association, F50, F53, F55,

Cited by 71 publications

References 27 publications

Does international pooling of authority affect the perceived legitimacy of global governance?

Does international pooling of authority affect the perceived legitimacy of global governance?

The Legitimacy of the UN Security Council: Evidence from Recent General Assembly Debates

The Desire for Sovereignty – An Explanation of EU Attitudes in the Arab World

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