Brassett, James, Richardson, Ben and Smith, William (2012) Private experiments in global governance : primary commodity roundtables and the politics of deliberation. International Theory, Vol.4 (No.3). pp. 367-399. doi:10.1017/S1752971912000188

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Abstract

Emerging scholarship on global governance offers ever-more detailed analyses of private regulatory regimes. These regimes aim to regulate some area of social activity without a mandate from, or participation of, states or international organizations. While there are numerous empirical studies of these regimes, the normative theoretical literature has arguably struggled to keep pace with such developments. This is unfortunate, as the proliferation of private regulatory regimes raises important issues about legitimacy in global governance. The aim of this paper is to address some of these issues by elaborating a theoretical framework that can orientate normative investigation of these schemes. It does this through turning to the idea of experimentalist governance. It is argued that experimentalism can provide an important and provocative set of insights about the processes and logics of emerging governance schemes. The critical purchase of this theory is illustrated through an application to the case of primary commodities roundtables, part of ongoing attempts by NGOs, producers, and buyers to set sustainability criteria for commodity production across a range of sectors. The idea of experimentalist governance, we argue, can lend much needed theoretical structure to debates about the normative legitimacy of private regulatory regimes.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	J Political Science > JZ International relations
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	International organization, Commodity control
Journal or Publication Title:	International Theory
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISSN:	1752-9719
Official Date:	November 2012
Dates:	Date Event November 2012 Published
Date of first compliant deposit:	1 August 2016
Volume:	Vol.4
Number:	No.3
Number of Pages:	32
Page Range:	pp. 367-399
DOI:	10.1017/S1752971912000188
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access

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