Salience games: Private politics when public attention is limited

Heyes, Anthony; Lyon, Thomas P.; Martin, Steve

doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2018.02.003

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“…Two somewhat different contributions to understanding the way in which NGOs might manipulate information to their advantage are provided by Lyon and Maxwell (2011) and Heyes, Lyon, and Martin (2018). Lyon and Maxwell provide the first analytical model of the greenwash—misleading claims by firms as to their social or environmental credentials—in a setting in which an activist has the opportunity to audit the firm’s claims.…”

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Understanding the Organization of Green Activism: Sociological and Economic Perspectives

Heyes

King

2018

Organization & Environment

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Environmental activists are an important voice in public and private politics, urging governmental and corporate responses and solutions to ongoing environmental damage. Scholars have become increasingly interested in understanding environmental movements and the influence of environmental activist organizations. This article describes two literatures that have analyzed the dynamics and outcomes of activism, one based in a sociological examination of social movements and the other in economic analysis of activist nongovernmental organizations. Although the literatures sometimes use different language and methods, they have much in common. We highlight the consistent themes—in particular the shared respect for the rational actor model—the particular strengths of each tradition, and directions for future research where synergies between the disciplines could be more fully exploited.

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Understanding the Organization of Green Activism: Sociological and Economic Perspectives

Heyes

King

2018

Organization & Environment

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“…by journalists, politicians and non-governmental organizations). This also gives the firm a further incentive to respect the agreement in order to maintain its reputation and to retain its customer base (Heyes et al (2018) and Heyes and Kapur (2012)).…”

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Perspectives on the Economics of the Environment in the Shadow of Coronavirus

2020

Environ Resource Econ

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“…The literature on societal accountability mechanisms of corporate business conduct generally distinguishes between "private politics" and "public politics" mechanisms (Druckman and Valdes, 2019;Heyes et al, 2018;King and McDonnell, 2015;Reid and Toffel, 2009). The term "private politics" refers to "actions by private interests such as activists that target private agents, often in the institution of public sentiment" (Baron and Diermeier, 2007, p.600).…”

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Greenwashing and public demand for government regulation

Kolcava¹

2020

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Environmental policy in many Western democracies relies on voluntary environmentalaction by the private sector. This policy mode is strongly contested though.Proponents of introducing government regulation argue that voluntary corporateenvironmental action is rarely more than “greenwashing”. Can policymakers rely onpublic opinion to hold firms accountable for (lacking) contributions to environmentalgoods? I argue that greenwashing accusations reduce citizens’ confidence in boththe effectiveness of voluntary environmental action by firms and the alignment offirms’ economic interest and environmental protection. Furthermore, I propose, thatcitizens’ support for government intervention increases in response to firms being accusedof greenwashing. I test this argument in a survey experiment (N=2112) on asample representative of the Swiss voting population. The analysis shows that accusingfirms of greenwashing changes how citizens perceive voluntary environmentalaction by firms. This, however, does not translate into shifts in citizens’ regulatorypreferences.

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Salience games: Private politics when public attention is limited

Cited by 13 publications

References 44 publications

Understanding the Organization of Green Activism: Sociological and Economic Perspectives

Understanding the Organization of Green Activism: Sociological and Economic Perspectives

Perspectives on the Economics of the Environment in the Shadow of Coronavirus

Greenwashing and public demand for government regulation

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