Magdalena Bexell
Biographic Data
| ID | 242546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Magdalena Bexell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Magdalena |
| FAMILY NAME | Bexell |
| SIGNATURE | BEXELL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9987-1177 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Academic legitimation strategies by the investment migration industry
The “investment migration industry” comprises for-profit actors who assist states in carrying out investment migration programmes and advise clients on their residence and citizenship planning. In this article, we explore how and why this controversial industry uses academic authority for legitimation. We develop a sociological reading of “academic legitimation strategies” and conceptually differentiate between substantive and symbolic legitimati…
The legitimacy of business-led multistakeholder partnerships for the 2030 Agenda: The case of salmon aquaculture sustainability
There is great variation among multistakeholder partnerships for the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development with regard to their lead actor and membership composition. While most such partnerships are led by international organizations and have state membership, others are business-led and lack involvement of states. The legitimacy of the latter have thus far received scant scholarly exploration in studies of the 2030 Agenda. This article evalua…
Accelerating the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals at the local level: Unpacking governance processes and tensions
Despite a growing body of research on the role of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the local level, knowledge on how they are taken up in local governance processes remains limited. This article contributes to knowledge on SDG implementation by examining how the SDGs can contribute to governance change at the local level. We develop a process-oriented analytical framework that examines SDG-induced governance change along four stages: h…
Indicator accountability or policy shrinking? Multistakeholder partnerships in reviews of the sustainable development goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with their 169 targets and 231 indicators epitomise the trend of global governance by numbers. This article suggests the notion of a global “indicator reporting trajectory” that is shaped by three main elements: the politics of indicators, a reporting infrastructure and indicator advocacy. I propose that indicator reporting trajectories may result either in policy shrinking or in indicator accountability. …
Multistakeholder Partnerships and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Sources and Audiences of Self-legitimation in the Fields of Health and Climate
The spread of global multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) for the2030 Agenda for sustainable development has generatedsignificant expectations on policy synergies and transformativegovernance. This article contributes to the study of the currentgeneration of MSPs by focusing on the self-legitimation attemptsthat MSPs undertake to justify their authority. We compare theself-legitimation claims of an MSP operating within the climatepolicy field (th…
Practices of self-legitimation by the investment citizenship industry
Through its intermediary power, the investment citizenship industry increasingly influences how governments and individuals act in matters of citizenship acquisition. This article explores self-legitimation practices by business actors in their capacity of organizational intermediaries in the investment citizenship industry, linking states and individual investors seeking a new citizenship. Studying self-legitimation offers insights into the prac…
Strengthening the Sustainable Development Goals through integration with human rights
This paper discusses the relationship between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the long-standing human rights system of the United Nations. Thematically, these two modes of global governance strongly overlap. Several SDGs are in line with human rights obligations. At the same time, the SDGs and human rights are based on divergent logics and constructed very differently. After capturing the key characteristics of the two governance mod…
Ranking for human rights? The formative power of indicators for business responsibility
This article explores the increasing role of indicators and rankings in the case of business and human rights. It argues that indicators contribute to forming notions of companies’ responsibilities for human rights. The potentially formative power of indicators stems from their substantive content (human rights), from the authority of those who produce them (experts, governance bodies), and from the type of knowledge they convey (numbers offering…
Realizing the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development – engaging national parliaments
This article examines the role of national parliaments in policy processes related to the realization of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, adopted in the UN General Assembly in 2015. We outline three main roles of parliaments in the case of national policy-making based on intergovernmental agreements: legislative and policy approval, citizen representation, and accountability. The cases of Sweden and Ghana are examined with regard to t…
Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals: The case of Tanzania
Whose legitimacy beliefs count? Targeted audiences in global governance legitimation processes
Global Governance Legitimacy and Legitimation
Country Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals—The Politics of Performance Review at the Global-National Nexus
With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), debates on governance through goal-setting and performance review have gained momentum. In this article, we explore how the politics of performance review played out in public sustainable development reporting at the global-national nexus. By examining the case of Swedish reporting to the United Nations High Level Political Forum in 2017, we find policy translation, accountability pre…
Responsibility and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
This article asks what key concerns emerge from the way responsibility is framed in United Nations summit documents on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in 2015. Our conceptual framework serves to make the study of SDG responsibility more systematic by distinguishing three main senses of responsibility: cause, obligation, and accountability. The framework structures our analysis of two SDG summit documents, Transforming Our World: …
Global Governance, Legitimacy and (De)Legitimation
The realm of global governance continually grows more diverse in form, substance and influence, making questions about its legitimacy and legitimation increasingly intriguing. Debates on standards
Hand in hand? UN–business cooperation for health and development
This article explores legitimacy challenges arising from increased cooperation between the United Nations and large business companies in the realm of global public health through an examination of the Global Public–Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap, seeking to prevent the spread of disease in poor communities. In contrast to many health partnerships, it does not employ a “vertical” disease-specific program, neither does it involve ph…
Global Governance, Gains and Gender: Un–business Partnerships for Women's Empowerment
United Nations bodies and large private companies have recently entered into partnerships for women's empowerment in developing countries. Such public–private partnerships have not previously been the subject of feminist scrutiny. In this article I examine three partnerships, feeding into research exploring business influence on global governance gender policies. The article demonstrates how partnerships assert their legitimacy through a proposed…
Democracy in Global Governance: The Promises and Pitfalls of Transnational Actors
The participation of transnational actors in global policymaking is increasingly seen as a means to democratize global governance. Drawing on alternative theories of democracy and existing empirical evidence, we assess the promises and pitfalls of this vision. We explore how the structuring and operation of international institutions, public-private partnerships, and transnational actors themselves may facilitate expanded participation and enhanc…
Föreställningar om offentligt och privat i internationell debatt om företags ansvar för mänskliga rättigheter
Democracy in Global Governance: The Promises and Pitfalls of Transnational Actors
The participation of transnational actors in global policymaking is increasingly seen as a means to democratize global governance. Drawing on alternative theories of democracy and existing empirical evidence, we assess the promises and pitfalls of this vision. We explore how the structuring and operation of international institutions, public-private partnerships, and transnational actors themselves may facilitate expanded participation and enhanc…
Global Governance, Legitimacy and (De)Legitimation
The realm of global governance continually grows more diverse in form, substance and influence, making questions about its legitimacy and legitimation increasingly intriguing. Debates on standards
Responsibility and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
This article asks what key concerns emerge from the way responsibility is framed in United Nations summit documents on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in 2015. Our conceptual framework serves to make the study of SDG responsibility more systematic by distinguishing three main senses of responsibility: cause, obligation, and accountability. The framework structures our analysis of two SDG summit documents, Transforming Our World: …
Global Governance, Gains and Gender: Un–business Partnerships for Women's Empowerment
United Nations bodies and large private companies have recently entered into partnerships for women's empowerment in developing countries. Such public–private partnerships have not previously been the subject of feminist scrutiny. In this article I examine three partnerships, feeding into research exploring business influence on global governance gender policies. The article demonstrates how partnerships assert their legitimacy through a proposed…
Whose legitimacy beliefs count? Targeted audiences in global governance legitimation processes
Country Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals—The Politics of Performance Review at the Global-National Nexus
With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), debates on governance through goal-setting and performance review have gained momentum. In this article, we explore how the politics of performance review played out in public sustainable development reporting at the global-national nexus. By examining the case of Swedish reporting to the United Nations High Level Political Forum in 2017, we find policy translation, accountability pre…
Multistakeholder Partnerships and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Sources and Audiences of Self-legitimation in the Fields of Health and Climate
The spread of global multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) for the2030 Agenda for sustainable development has generatedsignificant expectations on policy synergies and transformativegovernance. This article contributes to the study of the currentgeneration of MSPs by focusing on the self-legitimation attemptsthat MSPs undertake to justify their authority. We compare theself-legitimation claims of an MSP operating within the climatepolicy field (th…
Strengthening the Sustainable Development Goals through integration with human rights
This paper discusses the relationship between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the long-standing human rights system of the United Nations. Thematically, these two modes of global governance strongly overlap. Several SDGs are in line with human rights obligations. At the same time, the SDGs and human rights are based on divergent logics and constructed very differently. After capturing the key characteristics of the two governance mod…
Hand in hand? UN–business cooperation for health and development
This article explores legitimacy challenges arising from increased cooperation between the United Nations and large business companies in the realm of global public health through an examination of the Global Public–Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap, seeking to prevent the spread of disease in poor communities. In contrast to many health partnerships, it does not employ a “vertical” disease-specific program, neither does it involve ph…
Ranking for human rights? The formative power of indicators for business responsibility
This article explores the increasing role of indicators and rankings in the case of business and human rights. It argues that indicators contribute to forming notions of companies’ responsibilities for human rights. The potentially formative power of indicators stems from their substantive content (human rights), from the authority of those who produce them (experts, governance bodies), and from the type of knowledge they convey (numbers offering…
Realizing the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development – engaging national parliaments
This article examines the role of national parliaments in policy processes related to the realization of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, adopted in the UN General Assembly in 2015. We outline three main roles of parliaments in the case of national policy-making based on intergovernmental agreements: legislative and policy approval, citizen representation, and accountability. The cases of Sweden and Ghana are examined with regard to t…
Föreställningar om offentligt och privat i internationell debatt om företags ansvar för mänskliga rättigheter
Democracy in Global Governance: The Promises and Pitfalls of Transnational Actors
The participation of transnational actors in global policymaking is increasingly seen as a means to democratize global governance. Drawing on alternative theories of democracy and existing empirical evidence, we assess the promises and pitfalls of this vision. We explore how the structuring and operation of international institutions, public-private partnerships, and transnational actors themselves may facilitate expanded participation and enhanc…
Global Governance, Gains and Gender: Un–business Partnerships for Women's Empowerment
United Nations bodies and large private companies have recently entered into partnerships for women's empowerment in developing countries. Such public–private partnerships have not previously been the subject of feminist scrutiny. In this article I examine three partnerships, feeding into research exploring business influence on global governance gender policies. The article demonstrates how partnerships assert their legitimacy through a proposed…
Hand in hand? UN–business cooperation for health and development
This article explores legitimacy challenges arising from increased cooperation between the United Nations and large business companies in the realm of global public health through an examination of the Global Public–Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap, seeking to prevent the spread of disease in poor communities. In contrast to many health partnerships, it does not employ a “vertical” disease-specific program, neither does it involve ph…
Global Governance, Legitimacy and (De)Legitimation
The realm of global governance continually grows more diverse in form, substance and influence, making questions about its legitimacy and legitimation increasingly intriguing. Debates on standards
Responsibility and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
This article asks what key concerns emerge from the way responsibility is framed in United Nations summit documents on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted in 2015. Our conceptual framework serves to make the study of SDG responsibility more systematic by distinguishing three main senses of responsibility: cause, obligation, and accountability. The framework structures our analysis of two SDG summit documents, Transforming Our World: …
Country Reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals—The Politics of Performance Review at the Global-National Nexus
With the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), debates on governance through goal-setting and performance review have gained momentum. In this article, we explore how the politics of performance review played out in public sustainable development reporting at the global-national nexus. By examining the case of Swedish reporting to the United Nations High Level Political Forum in 2017, we find policy translation, accountability pre…
Whose legitimacy beliefs count? Targeted audiences in global governance legitimation processes
Global Governance Legitimacy and Legitimation
Localizing the Sustainable Development Goals: The case of Tanzania
Ranking for human rights? The formative power of indicators for business responsibility
This article explores the increasing role of indicators and rankings in the case of business and human rights. It argues that indicators contribute to forming notions of companies’ responsibilities for human rights. The potentially formative power of indicators stems from their substantive content (human rights), from the authority of those who produce them (experts, governance bodies), and from the type of knowledge they convey (numbers offering…
Realizing the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development – engaging national parliaments
This article examines the role of national parliaments in policy processes related to the realization of the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development, adopted in the UN General Assembly in 2015. We outline three main roles of parliaments in the case of national policy-making based on intergovernmental agreements: legislative and policy approval, citizen representation, and accountability. The cases of Sweden and Ghana are examined with regard to t…
Strengthening the Sustainable Development Goals through integration with human rights
This paper discusses the relationship between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the long-standing human rights system of the United Nations. Thematically, these two modes of global governance strongly overlap. Several SDGs are in line with human rights obligations. At the same time, the SDGs and human rights are based on divergent logics and constructed very differently. After capturing the key characteristics of the two governance mod…
Indicator accountability or policy shrinking? Multistakeholder partnerships in reviews of the sustainable development goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with their 169 targets and 231 indicators epitomise the trend of global governance by numbers. This article suggests the notion of a global “indicator reporting trajectory” that is shaped by three main elements: the politics of indicators, a reporting infrastructure and indicator advocacy. I propose that indicator reporting trajectories may result either in policy shrinking or in indicator accountability. …
Multistakeholder Partnerships and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Sources and Audiences of Self-legitimation in the Fields of Health and Climate
The spread of global multistakeholder partnerships (MSPs) for the2030 Agenda for sustainable development has generatedsignificant expectations on policy synergies and transformativegovernance. This article contributes to the study of the currentgeneration of MSPs by focusing on the self-legitimation attemptsthat MSPs undertake to justify their authority. We compare theself-legitimation claims of an MSP operating within the climatepolicy field (th…
Practices of self-legitimation by the investment citizenship industry
Through its intermediary power, the investment citizenship industry increasingly influences how governments and individuals act in matters of citizenship acquisition. This article explores self-legitimation practices by business actors in their capacity of organizational intermediaries in the investment citizenship industry, linking states and individual investors seeking a new citizenship. Studying self-legitimation offers insights into the prac…
Accelerating the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals at the local level: Unpacking governance processes and tensions
Despite a growing body of research on the role of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the local level, knowledge on how they are taken up in local governance processes remains limited. This article contributes to knowledge on SDG implementation by examining how the SDGs can contribute to governance change at the local level. We develop a process-oriented analytical framework that examines SDG-induced governance change along four stages: h…
Academic legitimation strategies by the investment migration industry
The “investment migration industry” comprises for-profit actors who assist states in carrying out investment migration programmes and advise clients on their residence and citizenship planning. In this article, we explore how and why this controversial industry uses academic authority for legitimation. We develop a sociological reading of “academic legitimation strategies” and conceptually differentiate between substantive and symbolic legitimati…
The legitimacy of business-led multistakeholder partnerships for the 2030 Agenda: The case of salmon aquaculture sustainability
There is great variation among multistakeholder partnerships for the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development with regard to their lead actor and membership composition. While most such partnerships are led by international organizations and have state membership, others are business-led and lack involvement of states. The legitimacy of the latter have thus far received scant scholarly exploration in studies of the 2030 Agenda. This article evalua…
Political science (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · International Development and Aid (11 works) · Accountability (10 works) · Corporate governance (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Sustainable development (9 works)