Titre
Input and Output Legitimacy of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives
Type
article
Institution
UNIL/CHUV/Unisanté + institutions partenaires
Périodique
Auteur(s)
Mena, S.
Auteure/Auteur
Palazzo, G.
Auteure/Auteur
Liens vers les personnes
Liens vers les unités
ISSN
1052-150X
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
2012-07
Volume
22
Numéro
3
Première page
527
Dernière page/numéro d’article
556
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Langue
anglais
Résumé
In a globalizing world, governments are not always able or willing to regulate the social and environmental externalities of global business activities. Multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSI), defined as global institutions involving mainly corporations and civil society organizations, are one type of regulatory mechanism that tries to fill this gap by issuing soft law regulation. This conceptual paper examines the conditions of a legitimate transfer of regulatory power from traditional democratic nation-state processes to private regulatory schemes, such as MSIs. Democratic legitimacy is typically concerned with input legitimacy (rule credibility, or the extent to which the regulations are perceived as justified) and output legitimacy (rule effectiveness, or the extent to which the rules effectively solve the issues). In this study, we identify MSI input legitimacy criteria (inclusion, procedural fairness, consensual orientation, and transparency) and those of MSI output legitimacy (rule coverage, efficacy, and enforcement), and discuss their implications for MSI democratic legitimacy.
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Date de création
2011-10-04T14:59:33.101Z
Date de création dans IRIS
2025-05-21T00:00:24Z