The Public Legitimacy of Multistakeholder Partnerships in Global Environmental Governance: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States

IF 3.9 2区社会学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Global Environmental Politics Pub Date : 2024-04-12 DOI:10.1162/glep_a_00746

Faradj Koliev, K. Bäckstrand

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Multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) in global environmental governance are either praised for their problem-solving capacities and inclusion of various societal actors or criticized for their limited accountability and corporate dominance. Despite the lively scholarly debate and the continued promotion of MSPs by international organizations and governments, knowledge about how environmental MSPs are perceived by the public is very limited. Understanding the sources of public support for MSPs is important, given its crucial role in MSPs’ abilities to secure resources and achieve their goals. In this article, we evaluate whether and how institutional features of MSPs influence citizens’ legitimacy beliefs. Building on previous studies, we theorize which institutional dimensions of MSPs matter for citizens’ level of support. We conduct population-based survey experiments in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States, encompassing more than 6,000 respondents. The results from the survey experiments have substantive implications for our understanding of the role of MSPs.

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全球环境治理中多方利益相关者伙伴关系的公共合法性：来自巴西、英国和美国调查实验的证据

全球环境治理中的多方利益相关者伙伴关系（MSPs）要么因其解决问题的能力和对不同社会参与者的包容而受到赞誉，要么因其有限的问责制和企业主导地位而受到批评。尽管学术界的讨论十分热烈，国际组织和各国政府也在不断推广多方利益相关者伙伴关系，但关于公众如何看待环境多方利益相关者伙伴关系的知识却非常有限。鉴于公众支持对多边环境协定获得资源和实现目标的能力起着至关重要的作用，因此了解公众对多边环境协定的支持来源非常重要。在本文中，我们将评估中等规模企业的制度特征是否以及如何影响公民的合法性信念。在以往研究的基础上，我们从理论上分析了中型企业的哪些制度层面对公民的支持水平有影响。我们在巴西、英国和美国进行了基于人口的调查实验，受访者超过 6000 人。调查实验的结果对我们理解多边战略伙伴关系的作用具有实质性意义。

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Global Environmental Politics Multiple-

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7.40

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8.30%

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期刊介绍： Global Environmental Politics examines the relationship between global political forces and environmental change, with particular attention given to the implications of local-global interactions for environmental management as well as the implications of environmental change for world politics. Each issue is divided into research articles and a shorter forum articles focusing on issues such as the role of states, multilateral institutions and agreements, trade, international finance, corporations, science and technology, and grassroots movements.