Transnational public-private governance initiatives in world politics: Introducing a new dataset

Westerwinter, Oliver

doi:10.1007/s11558-019-09366-w

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“…Current international efforts to protect the environment and ensure fair working conditions throughout transnational supply chains rarely extend beyond business conduct guidelines and do not include robust enforcement mechanisms (Westerwinter 2019). Departing from this status quo and moving towards stricter transnational supply chain management will require robust commitments, particularly from high-income democratic countries that are currently 'outsourcing' environmental and social impacts via international supply chains and trade.…”

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confidence: 99%

Public demand for extraterritorial environmental and social public goods provision

Rudolph¹,

Kolcava²,

Bernauer³

2019

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Vastly increased transnational business activity in recent decades has been accompanied by controversy over how to cope with its social and environmental impacts, particularly in the context of firms from high-income countries operating in less developed nations. The most prominent policy response thus far consists of new international soft law, e.g. the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. It remains open, however, whether and how such soft law could bring about more responsible corporate behavior abroad. We submit that the most effective mechanism to this end may operate through stricter home-country regulation of corporate behavior abroad. Exploiting a unique national initiative on this subject in Switzerland, we use a choice experiment with a large representative sample of voters (N=3010) to study public demand for such regulation. Contrary to conventional wisdom emphasizing fear of sovereignty loss and/or economic disadvantages from unilateral regulation of transnational activity, our results show that citizens prefer very strict and unilateral rules, while correctly assessing their consequences. Mechanism tests with survey-experimental vignettes reveal that citizens are aware that such rules are economically costly, entailing competitive disadvantages, but would be more effective in tackling the problem, normatively appropriate and reputation enhancing for the home country. Moreover, exposure to information highlighting international norm-setting in this area leads to even stronger demand for stricter rules. These findings indicate surprisingly strong public support for making international soft law effective via enforceable domestic regulation, even if direct regulatory benefits accrue abroad while regulatory costs materialize at home. They also suggest that effective communication of international norms is one pathway through which international soft law can effectively change business behavior.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Public demand for extraterritorial environmental and social public goods provision

Rudolph¹,

Kolcava²,

Bernauer³

2019

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“…A regulatory politics framework for platform governance issues offers many potential methodological tools common in the regulatory politics literature, where everything from case studies and process tracing to sizable regulatory datasets have been deployed to assess regulatory developments in various global industries (Mattli & Woods, 2009;Westerwinter 2021). For research that is seeking to understand the processes of institutional and regulatory change, qualitative methods are generally deployed: in particular, case studies using process tracing, interviews, and primary archival material (Farrell & Newman, 2010, p. 627).…”

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confidence: 99%

Elections, institutions, and the regulatory politics of platform governance: The case of the German NetzDG

Gorwa

2021

Telecommunications Policy

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Policy proposals for higher rules and standards governing how major usergenerated content platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube moderate socially problematic content have become increasingly prevalent since the negotiation of the German Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) in 2017. Although a growing body of scholarship has emerged to assess the normative and legal dimensions of these regulatory developments in Germany and beyond, the legal scholarship on intermediary liability leaves key questions about why and how these policies are developed, shaped, and adopted unanswered. The goal of this article is thus to provide a deep case study into the NetzDG from a regulatory politics perspective, highlighting the importance of political and regulatory factors currently under-explored in the burgeoning interdisciplinary literatures on platform governance and platform regulation. The empirical account presented here, which draws on 30 interviews with stakeholders involved in the debate around the NetzDG's adoption, as well as hundreds of pages of deliberative documents obtained via freedom of information access requests, outlines how the NetzDG took shape, and how it overcame various significant obstacles (ranging from resistance from other stakeholders and the European Union's frameworks against regulatory fragmentation) to eventually become law. The article argues, throughout this case study, that both domestic politics and transnational institutional constraints are crucial policy factors that should receive more attention as an important part of platform regulation debates.

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“…Concerning the latter, one can observe that in some countries, only a few VSS or public-private initiatives are active, while in others, many more are active. Westerwinter (2020) finds this for Transnational Governance Initiatives (TGIs), and the UNFSS (2020) find this for VSS. In relation to specific VSS, and Marx and Wouters (2016) find a "stuck to the bottom" problem for some least developed countries which are not involved in any way in VSS dynamics.…”

Section: Challengesmentioning

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Collectively Addressing SDGs to Change an Industry: The Case of the Water Revolution Foundation

Roza¹,

Meijs²

2020

Transitioning to Strong Partnerships for the Sustainable Development Goals

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His research focuses on nonprofit governance, financial health of nonprofits, and impact assessment. He serves as member of the editorial board of Nonprofit Management & Leadership and Voluntary Sector Review. Additionally, he is a member of the International Research Advisory Council of the Satell Institute. Georg von Schnurbein holds a master degree and PhD in Business Administration from the University of Fribourg/CH. He also studied political science at the University of Bern. He is the author of various publications on subjects such as foundation management, governance, and nonprofit management.

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Transnational public-private governance initiatives in world politics: Introducing a new dataset

Cited by 52 publications

References 66 publications

Public demand for extraterritorial environmental and social public goods provision

Public demand for extraterritorial environmental and social public goods provision

Elections, institutions, and the regulatory politics of platform governance: The case of the German NetzDG

Collectively Addressing SDGs to Change an Industry: The Case of the Water Revolution Foundation

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