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Multi-Interest Decision-Makers: The Multiple And Diverse Interests Of Policy Advisory Committee Members, Mary Alice Haddad
Multi-Interest Decision-Makers: The Multiple And Diverse Interests Of Policy Advisory Committee Members, Mary Alice Haddad
Mary Alice Haddad
This short working paper examines six influential environmental policy advisory committees from around the world to test whether members are either: 1) “stakeholders” taking part in a “multi-stakeholder” process through which each actor represents a clear set of hierarchical interests or 2) “multi-interest decision-makers” who are likely to be representing multiple interests simultaneously. The findings suggest that individual policy-makers are more likely to hold multiple rather than single interests in mind when crafting policy. Indeed, it is likely that the diversity of interests and perspectives held by a single person may more important than their institutional role in deciding who …