"Rethinking Private Authority" examines the role of non-state
actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller
understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing
private authority. Jessica Green identifies two distinct forms of
private authority--one in which states delegate authority to
private actors, and another in which entrepreneurial actors
generate their own rules, persuading others to adopt them.
Drawing on a wealth of empirical evidence spanning a century of
environmental rule making, Green shows how the delegation of
authority to private actors has played a small but consistent role
in multilateral environmental agreements over the past fifty years,
largely in the area of treaty implementation. This contrasts with
entrepreneurial authority, where most private environmental rules
have been created in the past two decades. Green traces how this
dynamic and fast-growing form of private authority is becoming
increasingly common in areas ranging from organic food to green
building practices to sustainable tourism. She persuasively argues
that the configuration of state preferences and the existing
institutional landscape are paramount to explaining why private
authority emerges and assumes the form that it does. In-depth cases
on climate change provide evidence for her arguments.
Groundbreaking in scope, "Rethinking Private Authority"
demonstrates that authority in world politics is diffused across
multiple levels and diverse actors, and it offers a more complete
picture of how private actors are helping to shape our response to
today's most pressing environmental problems
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