Focal Interest
Focal Interest

Legitimacy

  1. Knowledge can both politicize and depoliticize environmental conflicts
    Analysis of knowledge mobilization in environmental conflicts showing that expert and grassroots knowledge both politicize and depoliticize issues in complex, contingent ways.
  2. Congress, especially Republicans, uses more security framing in trade policy
    Analysis of US trade discourse from 2001 to 2025 shows Congress uses security framing more than the executive branch, with Republicans in Congress leading the trend.
  3. Indonesia’s dynastic politics coincided with democratic decline
    Examine how Indonesian political dynasties systematically manipulated democratic institutions from 2014-2024 while preserving electoral legitimacy through adaptive mechanisms and constitutional.
  4. Global AI governance centers on safety, human-centricity, and fairness
    Sociosemiotic analysis of 47 international AI governance documents reveals that consensus on core principles masks implementation gaps and actor tensions in global regulation.
  5. Climate ethics review finds justice and responsibility shape responses
    Literature review examining ethical frameworks and justice principles shaping climate policy responses across governance scales from 1990-2025.
  6. Indigenous oral traditions encode ecological knowledge and norms
    Indigenous oral traditions encode ecological governance, environmental ethics, and resource management frameworks that challenge anthropocentric legal paradigms and offer relational approaches to.
  7. Symbolic power shapes which nature values become legitimate
    A conceptual framework integrating symbolic power and socially endorsed beliefs explains how values of nature gain legitimacy in sustainability governance, illustrated through Japanese fisheries.
  8. Swiss cereal cooperative balances market pressures and cooperative values
    Case study of a Swiss cereal cooperative navigating tensions between market pressures and cooperative principles. Demonstrates how deliberate institutional adaptation sustains collective values.
  9. Myanmar case links democratization to religious nationalist hatred
    Examination of how autocratic cooptation of majority religious clergy incentivizes religious nationalist mobilization against minorities during democratization transitions
  10. Analytics framework targets greenwashing in sustainability claims
    Framework integrating machine learning and network analytics to detect greenwashing by analyzing organizational knowledge processes and credibility erosion.
  11. Spiritual legitimacy shapes maternal referral decisions in Akit community
    Ethnographic study exploring how spiritual legitimacy functions as symbolic infrastructure organizing maternal health decisions among the Akit Indigenous community in Indonesia, challenging.
  12. Social media helped organize Indonesian protest agendas
    Examine how social media framing and agenda-setting shaped the August 2025 Indonesian protests, analyzing hashtags, organizational actors, and institutional responses.
  13. Uncertainty mistranslation can weaken sociotechnical resilience
    Explores how governments mistranslate epistemological uncertainties into technical problems, undermining resilience governance. Examines nuclear safety and pandemic surveillance failures through.
  14. Deliberation experience increases perceived legitimacy in Honduras
    Study on how citizen participation in deliberative assemblies increases institutional legitimacy in Honduras, even when participants disagree with outcomes.