Abstract
Abstract This chapter outlines the book’s theoretical framework. The key question it seeks to answer is: how do we explain the variation in different strategies of platform regulation, and why are governments able to foster policy change in some cases but not in others? The chapter begins by outlining three ideal-type strategies that governments seeking to shape online content moderation can pursue: convince, collaborate, or contest. Building upon regulatory politics, international political economy, and global governance scholarship, it then argues that the decision of a government to intervene and regulate a platform company in a certain way, the strategy that it will choose to do so, and the likelihood of its success are all influenced by two main factors, which the chapter defines as political will and the power to intervene. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the book’s case studies, which are used to test this theoretical framework in Part II of the book.
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