1st Edition

Global Governance, Legitimacy and Legitimation

Edited By Magdalena Bexell Copyright 2015
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

Rules set by global governance organizations affect communities across the world. Such organizations increasingly seek to obtain legitimacy in the eyes of groups beyond their member state elites. This book advances scholarly debate on the politics of legitimacy and legitimation in global governance. It brings together researchers from different subfields of International Relations in order to... Read more

1. Introduction: Global Governance, Legitimacy and (De)Legitimation  Part I: Legitimation of global policy priorities  2. Legitimation Challenges in Global Health Governance: The Case of Non-Communicable Diseases  3. Legitimacy, Tribridity, and Decent Work Deficits  Part II: Legitimation and public-private governance  4. Old Wine in New Bottles? The Legitimation and Delegitimation of UN Public–Private Partnerships for Sustainable Development from the Johannesburg Summit to the Rio þ 20 Summit  5. Business–Humanitarian Partnerships: Processes of Normative Legitimation  6. Organizational Legitimation in the Age of Governing by Numbers: The Case of Regulatory Partnerships on ESG Issues and Financial Decisions  Part III: Legitimacy and transnational private governance  7. Exploring the Output Legitimacy of Transnational Fisheries Governance  8. Legitimacy, Institutional Design, and Dispute Settlement: The Case of Eco-Certification Systems

Biography

Magdalena Bexell, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden, and a former Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala. Her research revolves around questions on global governance, legitimacy, public–private collaboration, human rights and development. Among her publications are articles in Globalizations, Global Governance, Innovation, International Feminist Journal of Politics and the co-edited book Democracy and Public-Private Partnerships in Global Governance.