Representing Transnational Environmental Interests: New Opportunities for Non-Governmental Organisation Access within the World Trade Organisation?

Mason, Michael

doi:10.1080/0964401042000229043

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“…Since the 1992 Rio summit, 'multi-stakeholdership' has been launched to make multilateralism more inclusive and responsive to marginalized groups (such as women and indigenous people), and as a remedy to the 'participation gap' and disenfranchisement in global environmental governance (Elliot, 2004;Fisher and Green, 2004). Multilateral financial institutions, which have come under fierce criticism for suffering from a democratic deficit, have responded by establishing consultative arrangements with civil society (Mason, 2004). The assumption underpinning the 'governance from below' paradigm is pretty straightforward: more participation by affected groups will generate more effective collective problem solving.…”

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“…External accountability means that decision-makers have to justify their action vis-à-vis stakeholders that are affected by their decisions. Stakeholder dialogues in the World Commission on Dams (Dingwerth, 2005) and procedures to include NGOs and civil society in the World Trade Organization and Global Environmental Facility represent efforts to institutionalize external accountability (Mason, 2004;Payne and Samhat, 2004;Steffek, 2003).…”

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Multi‐stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development: rethinking legitimacy, accountability and effectiveness

2006

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The role of transnational partnerships in contemporary global environmental discourse raises larger questions of the legitimacy, effectiveness and accountability of networked governance. This article advances a conceptual framework for evaluating the legitimacy of partnership networks. Furthermore, it examines, in particular, the multi-stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development announced at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg 2002. Partnership networks have been branded as a new form of global governance with the potential to bridge multilateral norms and local action by drawing on a diverse number of actors in civil society, government and business. Does the rise of global partnerships imply a relocation and diffusion of authority from government to public-private 'implementation networks'? Recent evaluations of the Johannesburg partnerships suggest that they can gain from a clearer linkage to existing institutions and multilateral agreements, measurable targets and timetables, more effective leadership, improved accountability, systematic review, reporting and monitoring mechanisms. Copyright

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Multi‐stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development: rethinking legitimacy, accountability and effectiveness

2006

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“…At the same time, the environment could influence IGOs, for example by providing information like Transparency International does for the World Bank on national corruption. They can call the legitimacy of IGOs into question and can organize protest against it, like NGOs did at the WTO‐Millennium‐Conference in Seattle 1999 (Mason 2004).…”

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“…17 17 There is a huge body of literature analyzing the interrelations between the WTO and other IGOs as well as INGOs that cannot be exhausted here in greater detail (Vines 1998; Winham 1998; Siegel 2002; Mason 2004; Steinberg 2004; Head 2005). …”

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Autonomization of IGOs

Koch

2009

International Political Sociology

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This article attempts to explain how international governmental organizations (IGOs) become autonomous. It argues for a conceptual shift to an organizational studies perspective that puts the concept of the organization at the center of attention. Although some approaches in IR already apply particular organizational theories, an open‐system perspective offers a promising representation of IGOs, their internal dynamics, and external relations. Within an open‐system perspective, modern system theory is useful for examining how autonomization processes can be explained by taking into account the momentum of self‐referential closure on the basis of decisions.

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“…Much has been made, for instance, of nonstate actors' ability to render the operating procedures of international financial institutions more transparent and accountable (Dingwerth, 2004;Edwards and Gaventa, 2001;Fox and Brown, 1998;Hulme and Edwards, 1997;Mason, 2004). Sectors that pose inherently transnational problems, such as environmental policy, are said to lend themselves to the influence of nonstate actors and their cross-border networks (Keck and Sikkink, 1998;Wapner, 1997;Young, 1997).…”

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Cross-National Policy Networks and the State: EU Social Policy Transfer to Poland and Hungary

Sissenich

2008

European Journal of International Relations

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This article challenges optimistic claims about the power of nonstate actors in cross-border policy networks. In a pilot study of two mostlikely cases, the article examines the social policy network between the European Union and Poland and Hungary prior to accession. Two dimensions guide the analysis: Whether states act as gatekeepers and whether national borders restrict communications. The article shows that while labor and employers easily communicate with the EU, contacts fail to cut across national borders. Network data show that the EU significantly controls the flow of communication, a fact that runs counter to the notion of networks as fluid entities that enable all actors to link freely with others. Governments and the EU have an interest in network construction and control. Only by tracking network contacts empirically, the article argues, are we able to estimate the capacities and limits of nonstate actors in transnational politics.

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Representing Transnational Environmental Interests: New Opportunities for Non-Governmental Organisation Access within the World Trade Organisation?

Cited by 39 publications

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Multi‐stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development: rethinking legitimacy, accountability and effectiveness

Multi‐stakeholder partnerships for sustainable development: rethinking legitimacy, accountability and effectiveness

Autonomization of IGOs

Cross-National Policy Networks and the State: EU Social Policy Transfer to Poland and Hungary

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