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Environmental co-governance, legitimacy, and the quest for compliance : When and why is stakeholder participation desirable?
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- Birnbaum, Simon, 1977- (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Statsvetenskapliga institutionen,Stockholm Resilience Centre
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- 2016
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- English.
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In: Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. - 1523-908X .- 1522-7200. ; 18:3, s. 306-323
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- Deliberative forms of stakeholder participation have been widely embraced as a key measure for addressing legitimacy deficits and non-compliance in environmental governance. However, the great significance of such collaborative structures for state-stakeholder interaction is much too often accepted uncritically as an established truth in the environmental policy discourse. Building on examples from the literature on fisheries co-governance, this article constructs a conceptual and normative framework for interpreting and assessing such views about co-governance, legitimacy and compliance. Analysing central claims in this discourse in relation to different concepts and standards of legitimacy helps us identify and distinguish many powerful reasons to welcome co-governance. However, the article defends the need to do so cautiously and reflectively. It is conceptually misleading to suggest that more intense forms of co-governance will generally improve the overall level of social legitimacy and, thereby, compliance rates among stakeholders. Furthermore, it is argued that the democratic value of co-governance is not fundamental. The democratic desirability of such arrangements should be primarily assessed on instrumental-pragmatic grounds, focusing on their capacity to serve the wider ideals of equal citizenship and public reason.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Statsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Political Science (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Collaborative governance
- stakeholder participation
- legitimacy
- fisheries
- compliance
Publication and Content Type
- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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