Transnational Private Governance Between the Logics of Empowerment and Control

Download or read book Transnational Private Governance Between the Logics of Empowerment and Control written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is beyond the scope of this article to trace the origins of the logics.6 The analysis that follows instead starts from the empirical observation that private governance has evolved to face pressure to accommodate both the logics of control and empowerment. [...] Distributional implications The initial choice of programs to focus on the logic of control has direct implications for the distribution of power, wealth, and regulatory capability; a program's efforts to accommodate the logic of empowerment affect these distributional implications as well (Table 1). [...] The extension of the logic of control to include the logic of empowerment can, thus, affect wealth distribution when the inclusion of more marginalized producers and firms leads to larger market access, the potential availability of price premiums, and learning processes. [...] Pattberg (2006) argues along the same lines that the network structure of the FSC, with its international secretariat, regional offices, and national working groups, leads to knowledge diffusion and an empow- erment of Southern stakeholders as the latter's voice is heard through the national and local adaptation of the international principles and criteria. [...] "Fair Trade" connotes the Fair Trade movement, which is based on a definition of fair trade delineated in 2001 by the Fairtrade Labeling Organizations International (FLO), the International Fair Trade Association (now the World Fair Trade Organization, WFTO), the Network of European Worldshops, and the European Fair Trade Association (Fair Trade Advocacy Office s.d.), and the Charter of Fair Trade.