Abstract
While many scholars have studied urban bias in public policy, the potential for bias in the private provision of public goods has received little attention. Private certification is a mechanism encouraging private provision of environmental public goods. We show that within countries, there are often wide disparities in certification rates between firms located in urban and non-urban areas. However, these disparities can be mitigated if there is a countervailing force: scrutiny of firms' practices by key stakeholders. We suggest that the presence of strong civil society, independent media, a functioning state regulatory apparatus, and multinational owners can ameliorate the urban bias in certification uptakes. We test this argument with global, firm-level data covering over 40,000 firms in ninety-three countries. Our analyses suggest that an urban bias is mitigated when stakeholders - both public and private - have the freedom and capacity to scrutinize firms' activities.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 273-300 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| Journal | Business and Politics |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 1 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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Keywords
- environmental governance
- information
- private regulation
- urban bias
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Industrial relations
- Political Science and International Relations
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Stakeholder scrutiny, urban bias, and the private provision of public goods. / Chrun, Elizabeth; Berliner, Daniel; Prakash, Aseem.
In: Business and Politics, Vol. 20, No. 2, 01.06.2018, p. 273-300.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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