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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.01.001
	Effects of civil society involvement on popular legitimacy of global environmental governance
	Bernauer T.; Gampfer R.
发表日期	2013
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	23 期号:2
英文摘要	Global environmental governance is widely regarded as suffering from process- and outcome-related shortcomings, above all problems with transparency, representation, and problem-solving capacity. These problems, whether presumed or real, have negative implications for popular legitimacy of (i.e., public support for) global environmental governance. One of the most frequently proposed remedies, in this context, is greater involvement of civil society. Many academics and policy-makers claim that such involvement can increase transparency, strengthen representation of otherwise marginalized stakeholders, and provide knowledge to enhance problem-solving capacity. Skeptics challenge this claim, noting that civil society organizations are not accountable to voters and often represent narrowly defined interests. Assuming that public support for global environmental governance is ultimately important for its effectiveness, we evaluate the two competing claims by examining how civil society involvement affects public support for global environmental governance. We report on three survey experiments focusing on civil society involvement in global climate policy-making. Overall, the results speak in favor of civil society involvement. Our first survey experiment shows that individuals favor civil society involvement in global climate policy-making. The second and third experiments show that individuals pay more attention to changes of the status quo than to static conditions: popular legitimacy of global climate governance decreases when civil society is excluded, and increases when civil society is added. The latter finding has implications for current debates on how to address the persistent stalemate in global climate negotiations. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Civil society; Climate change policy; Global governance; Legitimacy; Public opinion; Survey experiment
学科领域	civil society; climate change; environmental legislation; environmental policy; governance approach; policy making; stakeholder
语种	英语
scopus关键词	civil society; climate change; environmental legislation; environmental policy; governance approach; policy making; stakeholder
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117969
作者单位	ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Center for Comparative and International Studies and Institute for Environmental Decisions, Haldeneggsteig 4, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bernauer T.,Gampfer R.. Effects of civil society involvement on popular legitimacy of global environmental governance[J],2013,23(2).
APA	Bernauer T.,&Gampfer R..(2013).Effects of civil society involvement on popular legitimacy of global environmental governance.Global Environmental Change,23(2).
MLA	Bernauer T.,et al."Effects of civil society involvement on popular legitimacy of global environmental governance".Global Environmental Change 23.2(2013).