Legitimating non-state actor engagement in global climate governance.
Our study examines how international organizations seek to legitimate non-state actor engagement to elite audiences, using the secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change as an illustrative case. We employ the prism of legitimation, a process whereby international organizations just...
| Publicado en: | International Affairs Vol. 101; no. 2; pp. 439 - 459 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2025
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