Why do citizens want the UN to decide? Cosmopolitan ideas, particularism and global authority

Ecker-Ehrhardt, Matthias

doi:10.1177/0192512114540189

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“…52 In line with these expectations, some recent empirical research concludes that citizen perceptions of successful IO problem-solving constitute a strong base for legitimacy beliefs. 53 The category fair procedure refers to policymaking practices that give equitable treatment to all concerned. This quality is exhibited in impartiality (that is, decision-taking processes are followed consistently and without discrimination) and proportionality (members contribute to IO resourcing in accordance with their relative means).…”

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Institutional sources of legitimacy for international organisations: Beyond procedure versus performance

2019

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This article addresses a significant gap in the literature on legitimacy in global governance, exploring whether, in what ways, and to what extent institutional qualities of international organisations (IOs) matter for popular legitimacy beliefs towards these bodies. The study assesses the causal significance of procedure and performance as sources of legitimacy, unpacks these dimensions into specific institutional qualities, and offers a comparative analysis across IOs in three issue areas of global governance. Theoretically, the article disaggregates institutional sources of legitimacy to consider democratic, technocratic, and fair qualities of procedure and performance. Empirically, it examines the effects of these institutional qualities through a population-based survey experiment in four countries in different world regions with respect to IOs in economic, security, and climate governance. The findings demonstrate that both procedure- and performance-related aspects of IO policymaking matter for popular legitimacy beliefs. This result holds across democratic, technocratic, and fair qualities of IO procedure and performance. Disaggregating the results by issue area indicates that a broader scope of institutional qualities are important for legitimacy beliefs in economic governance compared to security governance and, especially, climate governance. These findings suggest that propositions to reduce the institutional sources of IO legitimacy to single specific qualities would be misguided.

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Section: Unpacking Institutional Sources Of Io Legitimacymentioning

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Institutional sources of legitimacy for international organisations: Beyond procedure versus performance

2019

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“…The ethical position of cosmopolitanism has experienced a renaissance in the political and social sciences in recent years (e.g. Cheah and Robbins, 1998; Ecker-Ehrhardt, 2014; Linklater, 2001; Smith, 2008; Van Hooft, 2009), yet very little remains known about the causes and antecedents of cosmopolitan behavior. At its core, cosmopolitanism is the idea that all humans can, and/or should, consider themselves as belonging to a universal group that includes every person, and should treat all persons with equal moral concern (e.g.…”

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Motivating cosmopolitan helping: Thick cosmopolitanism, responsibility for harm, and collective guilt

Faulkner

2016

International Political Science Review

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Political theorists and philosophers have recently directed their attention to understanding how individuals may become motivated to act as ethical cosmopolitans. A prominent theory – termed “thick cosmopolitanism” – argues that the realization one’s ingroup is responsible for causing harm to people in distant nations will increase cosmopolitan helping behavior. Additionally, thick cosmopolitanism suggests that guilt may explain this effect. This article presents the first experimental tests of these claims, and is the first research to use experiments to investigate cosmopolitan helping. Results demonstrate a substantial, but previously unrecognized, limitation to thick cosmopolitanism. Specifically, reminders of ingroup responsibility for causing harm not only increased individuals’ acceptance of responsibility and collective guilt, which indirectly enhanced cosmopolitan helping (Studies 1 and 2), but simultaneously increased dehumanization of the harmed outgroup, which indirectly diminished helping (Study 2). These conflicting processes resulted in no overall increase in cosmopolitan helping, contrary to the predictions of thick cosmopolitanism.

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“…Our findings carry significant implications for these discussions. As other scholars have shown (Ecker-Ehrhardt, 2014;Furia, 2005), cosmopolitanism is a 'minority ideology' among world citizens. The majority -in Europe, inclined to vote for Far Right populist parties, socialist parties or conservative parties -constitutes a communitarian core.…”

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Accountability and opposition to globalization in international assemblies

Wilde

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Palmtag

2016

European Journal of International Relations

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Tabea PalmtagUniversity of Zürich, Switzerland AbstractAdvocates of a global democratic parliament have expressed hopes that this would not only legitimize global governance in procedural terms, but also bring about more cosmopolitan policies. They point to the European Parliament as an example of a successful real existing democratic parliament beyond the state with cosmopolitan intent. We analyse plenary debates in the United Nations General Assembly and the European Parliament about the issues of climate change, human rights, migration, trade and European integration between 2004 and 2011 to study the nature of opposition to cosmopolitanism within these two assemblies. We find more vocal and better-organized opposition to cosmopolitanism in the European Parliament than in the United Nations General Assembly. We demonstrate the plausibility that direct and more proportional mechanisms of delegation and accountability in the case of the European Parliament account for this observed difference. Should further research confirm these initial findings, advocates of a global democratic parliament may find that an empowered democratic World Parliament would support less cosmopolitan policies than the current United Nations General Assembly.

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Why do citizens want the UN to decide? Cosmopolitan ideas, particularism and global authority

Cited by 39 publications

References 30 publications

Institutional sources of legitimacy for international organisations: Beyond procedure versus performance

Institutional sources of legitimacy for international organisations: Beyond procedure versus performance

Motivating cosmopolitan helping: Thick cosmopolitanism, responsibility for harm, and collective guilt

Accountability and opposition to globalization in international assemblies

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