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Transnational Actors in Global Governance Jönsson and Jonas Tallberg 99778800223300__223399005500__0011__pprreeiivv..iinndddd ii 66//1111//22001100 1100::2277::1122 AAMM Democracy Beyond the Nation State? Transnational Actors and Global Governance Series Editors: Jonas Tallberg and Christer Jönsson Advisory Board: Yale Ferguson, Jean Grugel, Richard Higgott, Margaret Keck, Robert Keohane, Morten Ougaard, Nicola Piper, Thomas Risse, and Jan Aart Scholte Other titles in this series are: DEMOCRACY AND PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE (edited by Magdalena Bexell and Ulrika Mörth) LEGITIMACY BEYOND THE STATE?: Re-examining the Democratic Credentials of Transnational Actors (edited by Eva Erman and Anders Uhlin) Jönsson and Jonas Tallberg 99778800223300__223399005500__0011__pprreeiivv..iinndddd iiii 66//1111//22001100 1100::2277::1122 AAMM Transnational Actors in Global Governance Patterns, Explanations, and Implications Edited by Christer Jönsson Lund University, Sweden Jonas Tallberg Stockholm University, Sweden Jönsson and Jonas Tallberg 99778800223300__223399005500__0011__pprreeiivv..iinndddd iiiiii 66//1111//22001100 1100::2277::1122 AAMM Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Christer Jönsson and Jonas Tallberg 2010 Foreword © Christer Jönsson and Jonas Tallberg 2010 Individual chapters © contributors 2010 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2010 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978–0–230–23905–0 hardback This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne Jönsson and Jonas Tallberg 99778800223300__223399005500__0011__pprreeiivv..iinndddd iivv 66//1111//22001100 1100::2277::1133 AAMM Contents List of Tables and Figures vii Foreword viii Notes on the Contributors x List of Abbreviations xiii 1 Transnational Actor Participation in International Institutions: Where, Why, and with What Consequences? 1 Jonas Tallberg and Christer Jönsson 2 Capturing the Transnational: A Conceptual History 22 Christer Jönsson 3 Transnational Access to International Institutions: Three Approaches 45 Jonas Tallberg 4 Explaining Patterns of Transnational Participation: The Role of Policy Fields 67 Jens Steffek 5 Explaining Varying Degrees of Openness in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 88 Andrea Liese 6 WTO and the Environmental Movement: On the Path to Participatory Governance? 110 Åsa Casula Vifell 7 Limits to Transnational Participation: The Global Governance of Migration 134 Sara Kalm 8 Private Authority on the Rise: A Century of Delegation in Multilateral Environmental Agreements 155 Jessica F. Green 9 Does Global Democracy Matter? Hypotheses on Famine and War 177 Hans Agné v Jönsson and Jonas Tallberg 99778800223300__223399005500__0011__pprreeiivv..iinndddd vv 66//1111//22001100 1100::2277::1133 AAMM vi Contents 10 D emocracy Counts: Problems of Equality in Transnational Democracy 197 Sofia Näsström 11 B eyond Democratic Legitimacy: Global Governance and the Promotion of Liberty 218 Jens Bartelson 12 Transnational Access: Findings and Future Research 237 Christer Jönsson and Jonas Tallberg Index 253 Jönsson and Jonas Tallberg 99778800223300__223399005500__0011__pprreeiivv..iinndddd vvii 66//1111//22001100 1100::2277::1133 AAMM Tables and Figures Tables 3.1 Transnational access to international institutions: theories and hypotheses 61 4.1 Policy fields and presumed resource needs of IOs 73 5.1 Determinants of organizational openness 96 6.1 NGO participation at WTO ministerial meetings 118 8.1 Distribution of policy functions, treaty level 164 8.2 Total number of policy functions delegated to other actor 165 8.3 Transnational actors as sole agents, treaty level 167 8.4 Distribution of policy functions, sub-treaty level 169 8.5 T otal number of policy functions delegated to each actor, sub-treaty level 170 8.6 Specific activities delegated to transnational actors, percentage of all TNA functions 171 Figures 8.1 Treaty-level delegation to private agents, 1902–2002 (no. of policy functions) 163 8.2 Rates of delegation by policy function, treaty level 164 8.3 Policy functions delegated to private agents, sub-treaty level 168 vii Jönsson and Jonas Tallberg 99778800223300__223399005500__0011__pprreeiivv..iinndddd vviiii 66//1111//22001100 1100::2277::1133 AAMM Foreword This is one in a series of three edited volumes, published simultan- eously. The other two are Democracy and Public-Private Partnerships in Global Governance, edited by Magdalena Bexell and Ulrika Mörth; and Legitimacy Beyond the State? Re-examining the Democratic Credentials of Transnational Actors, edited by Eva Erman and Anders Uhlin. All three owe their origin to two partly overlapping research undertakings that go under the labels of Transdemos and Transaccess. The full title of the Transdemos program, which engages political scientists from Lund and Stockholm University, is “Democracy Beyond the Nation State? Transnational Actors and Global Governance” (see www.transdemos.se). The program receives generous long-term funding from the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ). Transaccess stands for “The Institutional Design of International Institutions: Legitimacy, Effectiveness, and Distribution in Global Governance” (see www.statsvet.su.se/English/Research/ transaccess.html). Located at Stockholm University, this project benefits from a substantial grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The financial contributions by RJ and ERC are gratefully acknowledged. Both research initiatives commenced in 2008. Early on, the participants agreed to draw on their extensive international contacts in a joint effort to summarize extant research on transnational actors and their role in dem- ocratizing global governance. We asked potential contributors to charac- terize, and identify gaps in, our present knowledge, theoretically as well as empirically. Thus, we aimed at volumes that would not only outline the state of the art but also suggest new research problems and directions. The fact that, in a relatively short time, we were able to collect these three volumes testifies to the enthusiastic and obliging response to our proposal among those who were asked to participate. In April 2009, we arranged a workshop in Lund around the themes of the three volumes. In addition to most of the contributing authors, several members of the international advisory board of Transdemos participated. We are all grateful for con- structive comments on draft chapters by Yale Ferguson, Robert Keohane, Morten Ougaard, Nicola Piper, and Jan Aart Scholte. The themes of the three volumes reflect the broad research questions of the Transdemos program. The first set of questions, which is also central to the Transaccess project, concerns the increasing participation by transnational actors in intergovernmental organizations and global viii Jönsson and Jonas Tallberg 99778800223300__223399005500__0011__pprreeiivv..iinndddd vviiiiii 66//1111//22001100 1100::2277::1133 AAMM Foreword ix forums. Why, in what ways, and with what consequences are trans- national actors allowed into traditional global governance institutions? These questions are addressed, and expanded on, in the present volume. A second set of questions concerns the mushrooming in recent decades of so-called public–private partnerships as alternatives or complements to traditional international organizations in tackling global problem areas. Why have these hybrid organizational entities emerged at this time? What different forms can “partnerships” assume? Are they really the win–win solutions they are often depicted as? The volume edited by Bexell and Mörth speaks to these and other questions concerning public–private partnerships. A final set of questions concerns the char- acter of transnational actors themselves. How is their expanding role in global governance legitimized? As transnational actors frequently claim to contribute to the democratization of global governance, it is natural to raise questions concerning their own democratic credentials. Their claims to speak on behalf of deprived and voiceless groups in the world give rise to questions concerning whom they represent and to whom they are accountable. This problematique is treated in the vol- ume edited by Erman and Uhlin. “Democracy” is a key concept in all three volumes, as in the Transdemos program. The common notion that transnational actors may provide a remedy for the alleged “democratic deficit” of global governance, in general, and international organizations, in particular, is an important focus of our inquiries. To critically examine this notion, we have solicited contributions, not only from International Relations (IR) specialists, but also from political theorists. In addition to illuminating our three themes from different angles, this raises crucial questions concerning research design. How can insights from empirical IR studies be combined with normative political theory, and how can future collaborative research involving both subdisciplines be organized? These questions constitute challenges that are tentatively addressed in this series of volumes. It is our hope that the three volumes, either individually or in com- bination, will contribute to our knowledge of an increasingly important aspect of international relations and inspire new research efforts. The multifaceted role of transnational actors in global governance remains an insufficiently charted territory. Christer Jönsson, Lund Jonas Tallberg, Stockholm Director Transdemos Director Transaccess Jönsson and Jonas Tallberg 99778800223300__223399005500__0011__pprreeiivv..iinndddd iixx 66//1111//22001100 1100::2277::1133 AAMM

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