Abstract
Many domains of transnational policy are now governed through dynamic, multilevel governance processes, encompassing transnational, national, and subnational scales. In such settings, both membership of policy communities and distributions of authority within them become more fluid and openly contested—increasing the importance of the politics of legitimation as a basis for distributing influence over policy processes and outcomes. Drawing on insights from theories of organizational and institutional legitimation, this article theorizes three distinctive strategies of policy influence exercised by transnational actors in multilevel governance settings, through which strategic efforts to legitimize transnational actors and forums are deployed as means of transnational policy influence. The three strategies involve: transnational field building, localized network building, and role adaptation. The effects of these influencing strategies on policy processes and outcomes are illustrated with reference to the case of Indonesian land governance, in which highly dynamic, contested, and multiscalar governance processes lend our theorized strategies particular salience.
Highlights
Transnational policy influence and the politics of legitimationThis is a pre-print version of an article published as: Rachael Diprose, Nanang Kurniawan and Kate Macdonald, “Transnational policy influence and the politics of legitimation”, Governance: An international journal of policy, administration, and institutions, (forthcoming 2019)
Many important global policy domains – spanning health, the environment, business regulation, and natural resource management – are governed through multi-layered structures of authority
Drawing on insights from theories of organisational and institutional legitimation—which have been influential in recent environmental governance scholarship, but relatively neglected in many broader theories of transnational policy and governance—we develop an account of three strategies deployed by transnational actors, whereby active efforts to legitimize between state and non-state actors within an unevenly globalized polity (Behr, 2008; Sassen, 1999; Slaughter, 1997)
Summary
This is a pre-print version of an article published as: Rachael Diprose, Nanang Kurniawan and Kate Macdonald, “Transnational policy influence and the politics of legitimation”, Governance: An international journal of policy, administration, and institutions, (forthcoming 2019)
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