The politics of legitimate global governance

Brassett, James; Tsingou, Eleni

doi:10.1080/09692290.2010.495297

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“…This article is primarily concerned with the normative dimension of legitimacy, but we also believe that this issue is best approached with at least some reference to the sociological dimension of legitimacy. This is because, as Steven Bernstein notes, 'as a practical matter, arguments about why members of a community should accept a decision or rule as authoritative includes possible reasons why the decision is accepted and vice versa' (Bernstein 2011: 20; see also Brassett and Tsingou 2011). The aim of our analysis is thus to construct an account that can orientate normative appraisals of private governance regimes in global contexts, but which is also sensitive to the processes through which these regimes appear to succeed or fail in generating legitimacy in the eyes of stakeholders.…”

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Private experiments in global governance: primary commodity roundtables and the politics of deliberation

2012

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Emerging scholarship on global governance offers ever-more detailed analyses of private regulatory regimes. These regimes aim to regulate some area of social activity without a mandate from, or participation of, states or international organizations. While there are numerous empirical studies of these regimes, the normative theoretical literature has arguably struggled to keep pace with such developments. This is unfortunate, as the proliferation of private regulatory regimes raises important issues about legitimacy in global governance. The aim of this paper is to address some of these issues by elaborating a theoretical framework that can orientate normative investigation of these schemes. It does this through turning to the idea of experimentalist governance. It is argued that experimentalism can provide an important and provocative set of insights about the processes and logics of emerging governance schemes. The critical purchase of this theory is illustrated through an application to the case of primary commodities roundtables, part of ongoing attempts by NGOs, producers, and buyers to set sustainability criteria for commodity production across a range of sectors. The idea of experimentalist governance, we argue, can lend much needed theoretical structure to debates about the normative legitimacy of private regulatory regimes.

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Section: The Legitimacy Of Private Regulatory Regimesmentioning

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Private experiments in global governance: primary commodity roundtables and the politics of deliberation

2012

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“…Contemporary research examines how global governance arrangements justify their governing bodies, policies and outcomes to a broader variety of actors than just member state elites of international organizations (Brassett & Tsingou, 2011;Graz & Nölke, 2008). Questions about the audiences of legitimation strategies have primarily concerned civil society actors, though some authors have looked at experts as legitimacy-granting audiences (e.g.…”

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“…Those are often contrasted with sociological approaches, which empirically examine the grounds for and degree of support of particular organizations or policies (cf. Brassett & Tsingou, 2011;Hurrelmann, Schneider, & Steffek, 2007). In a much-cited article, Ian Hurd (1999, p. 381) defines legitimacy as 'the normative belief by an actor that a rule or institution ought to be obeyed', emphasizing that it is an intersubjective quality defined by social perceptions.…”

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Global Governance, Legitimacy and (De)Legitimation

Bexell

2014

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“…These issues are treated, e.g. by Ponte et al, Brassett and Tsingou, Büthe, Cashore and Bernstein and Cashore [18][19][20][21][22]. Disciplines like critical geography or political ecology ask more crucial questions about the 'expansion of the certified world' and the neoliberalising of nature as, for example, done by Mutersbaugh et al, Castree and Klooster [23][24][25].…”

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Social sustainability in certification schemes for biofuel production: an explorative analysis against the background of land use constraints in Brazil

Mohr

Bausch

2013

Energ Sustain Soc

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Background: This article examines the scope of voluntary certification schemes, based on the sustainability criteria of the European Renewable Energy Directive for biofuel production in the context of social sustainability and land use issues in Brazil. Possibilities and limitations of such certification schemes are discussed against the background of the rapid-changing Brazilian agricultural sector. Methods: Brazil was chosen as a case study being both one of the first countries where ethanol certification projects are implemented and a potential certified ethanol-exporting country. To capture social effects concerning land use connected to an increased ethanol production, semi-structured expert interviews were conducted within an explorative approach in São Paulo in the years 2011 and 2012. The study addresses the following question: what is the scope of certification concerning social sustainability in the light of a rising demand on agricultural land? Results: An increasing demand for biofuels and other agricultural goods, as cash crops, leads to a concentration process of agricultural production. Land price hikes in infrastructural well-connected agricultural areas and the uneven distribution of land in Brazil are leading to newly arising negative effects on social sustainability. We assume that certification schemes have a limited scope in the above mentioned environments. Conclusions: As the scale of certification schemes is based on production-chain-governance, indirect and macro effects concerning social sustainability in Brazil cannot be addressed by this instrument. Hence, there is a strong need for comprehensive public regulation on land use issues on a national and international level in order to flank land use concentration in dynamic agricultural sectors, such as the Brazilian one.

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The politics of legitimate global governance

Cited by 69 publications

References 18 publications

Private experiments in global governance: primary commodity roundtables and the politics of deliberation

Private experiments in global governance: primary commodity roundtables and the politics of deliberation

Global Governance, Legitimacy and (De)Legitimation

Social sustainability in certification schemes for biofuel production: an explorative analysis against the background of land use constraints in Brazil

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