「Making sense of citizen desire for IO democracy: an
analysis of public opinion across 44 countries」
●저자 : 임시정(교신저자)
●학술지명 : EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS
●권호 : 28(2)
●게재년월 : 2022년 4월(온라인 게재)
●링크: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13540661221091361?journalCode=ejta
[초록]
Why do some citizens across the globe prioritize the democracy of
international organizations (IOs), while others place more emphasis on their
effectiveness? We suggest that this difference in attitude may reflect two
distinct perspectives on the subjects of IO democracy: (1) a citizen-centered
perspective focusing on substantive citizen representation and IO
accountability to citizens and (2) a state-centered perspective centering on
fair state representation and IO accountability to member states. We examine
these two perspectives among citizens worldwide and determine how these
perspectives shape preferences for IO democracy and effectiveness. Our
empirical analysis uses the latest wave of the World Values Survey, which
covers more than 50,000 individuals across 44 countries for the period
2017−2020. We find that citizens’ democratic activism and the perceived
democratic deficit in domestic governance, which we believe to be associated
with a citizen-centered perspective in international governance, do not lead to
the prioritization of IO democracy. Instead, the underrepresentation of their
country in major IOs and confidence in the national government have a
significant and positive association with the prioritization of IO democracy.
These results suggest that the prioritization of IO democracy expressed by the
public primarily reflects a state-centered perspective of international
governance rather than a citizen-centered one.