Can non-state global governance be legitimate? An analytical framework

By Steven Bernstein, B. Cashore. 2007

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Who Governs Socially-Oriented Voluntary Sustainability Standards? Not the Producers of Certified Products (2017, background): “Several studies suggest that some VSSSOs use inclusive governance to support their processes of legitimation, because they believe legitimacy is key to survival (Bernstein & Cashore, 2007, p. 351).”
Gorillas in the closet? Public and private actors in the enforcement of transnational private regulation (2013, background): “© 2013 Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd Transnational private regulation, it is suggested, poses challenges in terms of legitimacy and accountability (Bernstein & Cashore 2007; Black 2008; Scott et al. 2011).”
From Employment Relations to Consumption Relations: Balancing Labor Governance in Global Supply Chains (2014, background): “Despite and because of the limited ability of nation states to address supra-national challenges, a growing range of voluntary private governance mechanisms has emerged to regulate labor conditions within global supply chains (Bernstein & Cashore, 2007; O’Rourke, 2006; Vogel, 2008).”
Accountability in a Global Economy: The Emergence of International Accountability Standards (2011, neutral): “Third, while the adoption and diffusion of IAS is often emphasized by scholars’ research (Bernstein & Cashore, 2007; Christmann & Taylor, 2006), the production of standards has not attracted much research attention (for exceptions see Boström, 2003 and Tamm-Hallström, 2008).”
Trust, legitimacy and power in forest certification: A case study of the FSC in British Columbia (2012, background): “Geoforum competition among environmentalists and the forest industry to gain legitimate authority over resource use (e.g. Bernstein and Cashore, 2007; Eden and Bear, 2010; Gulbrandsen, 2004; Tollefson et al., 2008).”
From governance to government: The strengthened role of state bureaucracies in forest and agricultural certification (2016, neutral): “…governance system,’’ which gains rule-making authority as a private institution (Cashore, 2002, similar Auld, Balboa, Bernstein, & Cashore, 2009; Bernstein & Cashore, 2007; Cashore, Auld, Lawson, & Newsom, 2007; McDermott, 2012; Pattberg, 2007).1 In this context authority refers to the…”
Sustainability governance of chains and networks: a review and future outlook (2015, background): “…industries and/or sectors (Mutersbaugh, 2005): whether competition leads to a ‘ratcheting up’ as standards seek more stringent quality outcomes (Bernstein and Cashore, 2007; Overdevest and Rickenbach, 2006), a race-tothe-bottom should they compete on market-share (Porter, 1999), or a…”
Biofuel sustainability and the formation of transnational hybrid governance (2015, background): “They often seek to identify ‘best institutional designs’ to achieve the putative objectives of transnational governance schemes (Bernstein and Cashore 2007; Fransen and Kolk 2007, Quack 2010, Auld and Guldbrandsen 2010, Tamm Hallström and Boström 2010, Guldbrandsen 2009, 2010, 2014).”
Private Global Business Regulation (2008, background): “Bernstein & Cashore (2007) argue that the key to understanding how NSMD governance systems have emerged lies in recognizing that business preferences are not static.”
Input and output legitimacy of multi-stakeholder initiatives (2012, background): “The more the corporations from an industry are involved in an MSI, the more likely their competitors will engage so that others will not have a competitive advantage (Bernstein & Cashore, 2007; Husted & Allen, 2006).”
The Emergence of a Standards Market: Multiplicity of Sustainability Standards in the Global Coffee Industry (2012, background): “In the absence of intergovernmental regulation, voluntary standards have proliferated to address the challenges of sustainability in global value chains (Bernstein & Cashore, 2007).”
Legitimation and Accumulation in Climate Change Governance (2010, background): “Prominent in this debate is the focus by Ben Cashore, Steven Bernstein and others on what they call ‘non-state market driven’ (NSMD) forms of governance – forms which regulate directly firm behaviour along a range of commodity chains, and according to different sorts of environmental, social and pol”