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Do people’s beliefs in the legitimacy of the WHO, IMF, or UN change based on what others think?

Our survey experiments from 🇧🇷+🇩🇪+🇺🇸 say: Yes!
Peer opinion matters—even in the face of elite cues.
➡️IO legitimacy is shaped socially, not just top-down.

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Thus, our findings suggest that the recent pluralization of institutional arrangements of global governance is, in principle, in line with citizens’ appreciation of nonstate actors as providers of critical resources for more effective, accountable, and democratic global governance.

Strikingly, the strength of this effect depends on the degree to which citizens expect #nonstateactors to provide expertise, representation, public interest orientation, transparency, or operational capacity.

We present survey-experimental evidence that citizens in BR, DE, US, and ZA ascribe more #legitimacy to #globalgovernance institutions if learning that #nonstateactors – such as civil society organizations, scientists, business, or citizens directly – have a say in important decisions.

Out now in @isq-jrnl.bsky.social with Soetkin Verhaegen & Sigrid Quack:‬ doi.org/10.1093/isq/...

See what I have in my news diet today: German far-right AfD parliamentary group calls for applications - what a challenge to start the day without Google Ads personalization...

The case study: Twitter communication on the Global Compact #ForMigration. The analysis of engagement patterns suggests that tweets sent by UN Global Communication handles (e.g. @UN) have mostly fueled ideological fragmentation through advocative retweeting, mentioning and (hash)tagging.

The general argument: Advocative IO communication on social media increases resonance among like-minded users, but undermines the credibility of IO communication as a source of trustworthy information across polarized "echo chambers."

Finally in print @the-peio.bsky.social: my piece on how IO advocacy on social media may fail in times of polarized fragmentation. doi.org/10.1007/s11558-023-09517-0

🙌 New research about elite opinion about int'l organizations (IOs): Studying Swedish elites, we find that elites’ national security concerns tend to reduce their support for problem-solving through nonsecurity IOs. 🇸🇪 With Nicholas Olczak @stockholm-uni.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/isag... #polisky

New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.

Was muss der Mann auch immer so kurze Röcke tragen

Was mir so wehtut für Selenskyj:

weil die Existenz seines Landes gefährdet ist, für die er unermüdlich und mit so viel Verantwortung kämpft, musste er diese ganzen Fatzkes im Oval Office mit bewundernswerter Contenance ertragen, obwohl er nur eine Sache gedacht haben kann:

F*** off.
F***.OFF.

Wohl etwa 200.000 Menschen demonstrierten heute in #Berlin gegen den Rechtsruck im Land und gegen die Zusammenarbeit der CDU/CSU mit der AfD. 200.000 Menschen für #Demokratie und unteilbare #Menschenrechte! Dank an @campact.bsky.social für die Organisation!

Großartige Rede heute; gab der ganzen Veranstaltung die nötige Tiefenschärfe - herzlichen Dank dafür!

Using survey and experimental data from Brazil, Germany, Indonesia & US, we show that: 1. people perceive major IOs as ideological. 2. people think IOs are more legitimate if they perceive these organizations as ideologically more congruent with own orientations.

We develop a new understanding of the conditions under which political ideology affects beliefs in the legitimacy of such IOs. We argue that ideology and legitimacy are linked depending on how IOs are perceived as ideological actors.

Past research expected ideology (such as left-right) to matter for how people think about major international organizations (e.g., @UN, @EU_Commission, @_AfricanUnion, @WHO, @IMF), but provided only mixed evidence – at best.

In a new publication in @IOJournal w/ lisadellmuth.bsky.social jonastallberg.bsky.social we show that political ideology is a more powerful driver of legitimacy in global governance than previously understood.

Ideology and Legitimacy in Global Governance | International Organization | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is a really cool paper, which I recommend to those interested in public opinion in IR, IO's, and legitimacy.

Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt, @lisadellmuth.bsky.social‬, and Jonas Tallberg show that people view IOs as #ideological actors and accord IOs greater #legitimacy when they perceive these organizations as ideologically closer.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...