The Legitimizing Power of Contestation: Grounding Global Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives in the Rawlsian Theory of Justice
针对全球多利益相关方倡议被批评赋予私人行为体过多权力及干涉他国内政的问题，本文基于罗尔斯正义理论提出，当所有受影响者拥有有效争议手段时，这些倡议的合法性可得到保障。
Global multi-stakeholder initiatives (global MSIs) have become a cornerstone of modern governance. However, critics disparage MSIs (1) for giving too much power to private actors, specifically corporations, and (2) for allowing organizations from one state to influence another’s affairs. This criticism holds true in particular for the Habermasian approach to political corporate social responsibility (political CSR). By contrast, this paper grounds global MSIs in John Rawls’s theory of justice, arguing that both legitimacy issues can be overcome when all those affected by a global MSI possess a means of contestation able to effectively contest the MSI’s activities. This entails that global MSIs, when affecting states that are unwilling or unable to protect their own citizens, must themselves provide their stakeholders with such means. It is argued that this Rawls-based approach to political CSR can rectify the shortcomings of the Habermasian approach without requiring a change in the composition of MSIs.