The legitimacy of international regimes
By: by Helmut Breitmeier.
Series: Global environmental governance
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780754644118
Subjects: Environmental policy -- International cooperation; Environmental protection -- International cooperation; International organization; Legitimacy of governments
Description: "How legitimate are outcomes, outputs and impacts of global environmental regimes? Can non-state actors contribute to improve the output- and input-oriented legitimacy of global environmental governance? Helmut Breitmeier responds to these questions, balancing the volume with both theoretical and empirical chapters."

"The theoretical and conceptual chapters illustrate the relevance and meaning of legitimacy as well as the impact of non-state actors on environmental governance. They also describe various methodological issues involved with the coding of 23 environmental regimes. The empirical chapters are based on the findings of the International Regimes Database (IRD).

They explore whether problem-solving in international regimes is effective and equitable and the influence of a regime's contribution to how states comply with international norms. These chapters also analyze whether non-state actors can improve the output- and input-oriented legitimacy of global governance systems."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: International regimes in a world of change : why legitimacy?; title: What is, and how can we measure, the legitimacy of regimes?; title: Non-state actors and the legitimacy of international regimes; title: Regimes, case-design and coding procedure; title: Regimes and the reduction of uncertainties; title: Regimes and compliance; title: Regimes and the management of environmental problems; title: Distributional consequences of environmental regimes; title: Non-state actors and participation in regime polities; title: Conclusion.