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Karin Bäckstrand and Jonathan Kuyper (2017) "The Democratic Legitimacy of Orchestration: the UNFCCC, Non-state Actors and Transnational Climate Governance, Environmental Politics, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644016.2017.1323579 Use the following link for free access: http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/BycdqJfKGtJ5Dk2zVXmE/full Abstract Is orchestration democratically legitimate? On one hand, debates concerning the legitimacy and democratic deficits of international politics continue unabated. On the other, the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has progressively engaged in processes of orchestration culminating in the 2015 Paris Agreement. Scholarship on orchestration has almost exclusively focused on how to ensure effectiveness while excluding normative questions. This lacuna is addressed by arguing that orchestration should be assessed according to its democratic credentials. The promises and pitfalls of orchestration can be usefully analyzed by applying a set of democratic values: participation, deliberation, accountability, and transparency. Two major orchestration efforts by the UNFCCC both pre- and post-Paris are shown to have substantive democratic shortfalls, not least with regard to participation and accountability. Ways of strengthening the democratic legitimacy of orchestration are identified. We hope you enjoy the read. All best, Karin Bäckstrand and Jonathan Kuyper --------------------------------------------------- Karin Bäckstrand Professor in Environmental Social Science Department of Political Science Stockholm University SE-106 91 Stockholm Sweden E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Tel. (office): +46 8 16 15 78 Cell: +46 70 565 96 97 Skype: karin_backstrand Website: www.statsvet.su.se<http://www.statsvet.su.se> Room: 720 -------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
