合法性危机下国际组织的自我合法化——基于三个国际组织的比较研究

国际组织在面临合法性危机时会开展自我合法化,以回应外部批评和质疑。本文在概念化国际组织自我合法化的基础上,提出以下假设:较少依赖自愿捐资的国际组织仅会在面临合法性危机时开展低强度的自我合法化;某个国际组织较多依赖自愿捐资,并且自愿捐资来源较广,就会在面临合法性危机时开展高强度的自我合法化;某个国际组织较多依赖自愿捐资,但自愿捐资来源较窄,则会在面临合法性危机时开展中等强度的自我合法化。通过对世界卫生组织、国际劳工组织、国际原子能机构在合法性危机下自我合法化的案例分析,上述假设得到了实证支持。

When facing legitimacy crisis,international organizations will carry out self-legitimization strategies to respond to external criticism.Based on the conceptualization of self-legitimization,this paper proposes the following hypotheses:In the face of legitimacy crisis,international organizations that rely less on voluntary donations will only carry out low-intensity self-legitimization;an international organizations that relies more on voluntary donations and has more sources of voluntary donations will carry out high-intensity self-legitimization;an intcrnational organization that relies more on voluntary contributions but has a narrower source of voluntary contributions will carry out moderate self-legitimization.This hypothesis is emprically supported by comparative case studies of the World Health Organization(WHO),International Labor Organization(ILO)and International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA).