In this working paper, we treat legitimacy and legitimation as interactive, discursive and relational concepts …: Legitimacy is socially constructed in the public spheres of (democratic) political regimes, that is, in discursive exchanges of … political elites and citizens about the acceptability of these regimes. Legitimacy claims and assessments establish a link …

legitimacy-threatening event in the form of an incident in a German nuclear power plant. As discourses express specific stances … organizational legitimacy when social rules and norms have been violated. Using an analytical framework based on legitimacy as a …

-hand interviews, websites and videos. Our focus is to examine how whistleblower discourses can build legitimacy by more tightly … legitimacy construction model of the whistleblower role, i.e., a representation of how role legitimacy is produced and sustained …