ABSTRACT The G20 has two distinctive features that make it a unique forum in global politics. First, it is one of the few existing global platforms where different international institutions and regional organisations can coordinate across a vast array of issue areas and emergent policy fields. Second, it is an institution that brings together heads of government which control roughly 80% of world GDP. Despite these features, the G20 lacks constitutive authority of its own, bound by a consensus principle which sharply delimits its scope of action. Notwithstanding its circumspect authority, no recent international body has garnered more attention from transnational civil society groups and advocacy networks than the G20. Most of this attention is critical and points to legitimacy problems. We argue that these legitimacy problems derive from a perception of untapped potential and undue privilege for great powers. Against this backdrop, we submit that a more active and institutionalised forum – with clear decision-making procedures for exercising authority – could help mitigate resistance and contribute to a more legitimate global governance system overall.

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未开发的潜力：G20 如何加强全球治理

摘要 G20 有两个鲜明的特点，使其成为全球政治中独一无二的论坛。首先，它是为数不多的现有全球平台之一，不同的国际机构和区域组织可以在众多问题领域和新兴政策领域进行协调。其次，它是一个将控制着世界 GDP 约 80% 的政府首脑聚集在一起的机构。尽管有这些特点，但 G20 缺乏自身的组织性权威，受制于明确界定其行动范围的共识原则。尽管其权威谨慎，但最近没有哪个国际机构比 G20 更能引起跨国民间社会团体和倡导网络的关注。大多数这种关注是至关重要的，并指向合法性问题。我们认为，这些合法性问题源于对大国未开发的潜力和不应有的特权的看法。在此背景下，我们认为一个更加活跃和制度化的论坛——具有明确的行使权力的决策程序——可以帮助减轻阻力，并有助于建立一个更合法的全球治理体系。